>From: David Rubino <tigger@...>
>Reply-To: eqbards@onelist.com
>To: eqbards@onelist.com
>Subject: [eqbards] How in the world do you stack? I don't think stacking
>works at all . . .
>Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 06:58:12 -0700
>
>From: David Rubino <tigger@...>
>
>
> OK, someone clear thnigs up for me. There is endless discussion about
>"stacking" songs, which I understand to be, conceptually, playing two songs
>at once. Now since this is, by design, impossible, it requires some sort of
>special trick. I gather from what I read that the process involves starting
>one song, waiting for the effect to take place, stopping the song and
>quickly starting another, waiting for its effect to take place, and then
>stopping that one to renew the first, and so on.
>
Not impossible in the game..
> My only question: You can't be serious, can you?
Oh yes, serious all right..
> Do people really do this? I mean, the chances of actually seeing the
>effect of both songs at once seems so small, and the amount of button
>pressing seems so hectic in mele battle. I have tried it, and have failed
>entirely to get it to even begin to work . . . I mean, sure, I have the
>icon for both anthem and the healing song on my screen, but I hardly ever
>actually get a heal out of it, and rarely is my strength actually higher
>when I actually swing. This "stacking" basically eliminates any effect of
>either song!
Well 2 songs is one thing, but I used to stack 3 songs sometimes.
Well, some bards do it, but I don't normally stack or twist Hymn of
Restoration during combat. Usually I'll stack something that has an on-going
effect like Whistling Warsong and Anthem (both of those effects are on-going
as long as the icon is there). You get a pretty nice boost to stats while
they are both there. Try stacking them and check your stats. I also threw in
that song that lowers mob attack speed (i like that one)..I think it's level
21 song? Don't remember the name of it.
>
> I'm just wondering if stacking is something that a few over zealous but
>very talkative Bards write about a lot here, or something that a lot of you
>take seriously.
>
> I for one am going to save my fingers the busywork . . .
>
>-Musil
>
Well, not everyone does it or wants to do it. Suit yourself, I'm sure you
make a fine bard either way. I do take it seriously though (we're not very
good fighters, I like to have every bonus I can get).
I don't find it too much trouble either, as usually if i'm not twisting I'm
just standing there in auto-combat mode waiting for the computer to resolve
all the attack rolls.
Sartori of Kelethin
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