On Wed, Nov 10/99, kim@... wrote:

>
> The problem is that this doesn't really scale. They recently
> halved the speed of Verses of Victory (L50 song), and from
> reports I'm seeing it's gone from a 45% speedup (same as
> enchanter's L49 Swift) to about a 23% speedup. A typical L50
> enchanter (say 170 int) will use a bit more than half his mana
> to cast Swift like the Wind (250 mana) on 5 party members,
> plus has Clarity to help him recover from it faster. The
> situation was nowhere near as unbalanced as it was with the
> Anthem/Quickness comparison. In fact, a L50 enchanter could
> cast Alacrity (25% speedup, 115 mana) on 5 party members for
> about a bubble and half of mana, and that would be *faster*
> than our nerfed Verses.

This also ignores the fact that in a typical party the enchanter is
highly unlikely to cast a speedup spell on 5 party members. Typically,
in my experience with high level parties, it's more like 2 members.
Bards songs, while affecting all 5, are not really that useful on a
cleric or druid, for example, with their one handed weapons and no
double attack.

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