On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Roy Scharrer wrote:

> >I play both a bard and an enchanter. My bard has a lull like song,
> >Kellin's Lugubrious Lament, that works great. I've tried to use both
> >lull and soothe with my enchanter and have never gotten them to work.
> >Are these songs broken?

Using lull/soothe/calm as an enchanter (and seeing a cleric try to use
them) and calm/rest the dead as a necro, I've never had good consistent
results. They seem to be suicide spells designed to pull an entire camp
fairly often.

Consensus among people I group with is that this line of spells is
near-useless. Both bard lament and druid/ranger harmony work very well,
however. The difference seems to be the type of resist (lament and
harmony are never or almost never resisted), amount of aggression
reduction (lament and harmony reduce aggro range to 0 so you can pull
past/walk by the target and be safe, lull/rest/etc just reduce the range a
small amount), and what happens on a resist (lament and harmony let you
recast, lull/rest/etc aggro the mob). Oh, and harmony is (small) AE so you
can use it around some corners. Dunno about lament.

Basically, if you need to break a camp where the critters are close
together, use mez and memblur, or get a bard, druid, or ranger to do
it while you take care of any messes if they fail.

> It has been my experience that you have to lull (sooth, calm) the mobs
> farthest away fist. If an agro mob runs past on the has been soothed the
> sooth wears of and they both come

It will work occasionially, especially if the mobs aren't close together.
But it fails often enough (and pulls the whole camp on a resist) that it's
safer to use mez. IMO at least.
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