Ok children, get comfy, I feel like relating one of Knaeve's Tales of the
Ludicrous. I usually just lurk on the list, but I have time to kill at
work, and feel like sharing.
So anyway, I'm grouped with a cleric doing CR after a failed Vox run. We
had learned the hard way that 53+ clerics, even if they don't engage Vox,
still get zapped out of the zone if they get even remotely close (this was
right after the patch). I was pumping mana and there were about a dozen
people in the room, all of whom, by pure coincidence, were casters. And
they were all very LOM casters since they'd just been rez'd. Somehow, two
lvl 50 Ice Giants agro'd on us. I charmed one for a while and had them
duel, but I myself had recently been rez'd, so I ran out of mana. The
casters, using what little shred of mana was left, reduced one to ashes.
Thus began The Bardic Prize Fight of the Century (may it never be repeated).
The bad news: I DIDN'T HAVE ANY CHANTS MEM'D!!!
F1
/bonk
The good news: I had VoV, Niv's, and CoB mem'd from working with some
melee's earlier to clear out the king room as we worked back mostly naked to
the CR (the other melee had left, and as I've stated, I was the ONLY melee
in this room of OOM casters).
The other good news: I have Sionachie's Partisan (only one on Quel server to
my knowledge... I'll tack the stats to the end of this post) which I'm very
fond of.
So I start to melee this frigging lvl 50 ice giant while everyone med's
furiously. Everyone who could heal had me targeted and so I would
periodically get incoming greater heals. Every once in a while a caster
would get enough mana for a nuke--but by some freakish chance everyone was
getting horrid resists & partial resists. And the fight went on. And on.
And on. While I tanked, twisted, and meleed the huge bastard. AFter about
two minutes, the cleric I had been mana feeding earlier asked how stamina
was doing. "Out." So he shot me a bar of stamina. It was sort of like the
people on the sidelines of the marathon handing a cup of gatorade to one of
the runners. It took 5 minutes to kill him. Over that period I was
probably the recipient of 30 greater heals. It was one of the most
ludicrous settings I've seen--all these powerless casters watching the lone
bard take on something with maybe 8-10k hp.
Suffice it to say, me and the one person I was grouped with (cleric) got the
xp for the kill.
Knaeve, blah blah blah blah blah.
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Sionachie's Partisan:
9/19 +6cha +2int +5MR
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