After looking up on EQdiva, im now certain this song is heavily bugged on p1999.
What happens on p1999:
Bard aggro 100 mobs ranging from lvl 40-52, get them bunched up and will mez 95% of those mobs.
Heres what should happen:
Bard aggro 100 mobs ranging from lvl 40-52, get them bunched up and mezzes 20-25% of them, dieing quickly.
Here's some supporting comments from EQdiva from the era:
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/cheer menaka
at 40+ this song is worthless.
at 54, I see greens resist this constantly.
granted, I only have 143 cha. But I try for more sta/hp than cha whenever possiable.
This song to me is level based.
At lower levels this would work great.
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In my experience, the usefulness of this song truly is level-based. Prior to around 35ish, this spell hardly ever left my bar, it was incredibly useful and saved my parties several times. But as you get higher, you will find that resists dramatically increase and this song decreases in its usefulness. I last used it successfully when I was in my mid-40s and I got resists probably about 75% of the time (but the 25% success rate sqeaked us through alive). I've tested it in some of the low 50s dungeons where I have been fighting and it barely sticks, ever, even against mobs I can stick Pixie Strike to.
The sense I seem to get from what VI has said about Bards and crowd control is that they never wanted us to interfere with the enchanters, and AE mesmerize, as you can see in the lower levels, is amazingly powerful. So while they stay master of AE mez, we stay at least competitive with single target charm and crowd control .. and with our awesome lull ability to single pull.
Bottom line, use this a LOT in the lower levels, and enjoy the power while you have it. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
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I really hope the 28 pixie strike works well because this song has already outlived it usefulness. Resist rates at level 27 are around 95%, so all it really ever accomplishes is getting me killed, no longer ever memmed obvisously. BTW CHA is 119 so maybe thats the problem but my CHA is gonna go up anytime soon, I have limited resources and higher priorities for gear than CHA stuff.
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So after more research, it appears you can mesmerize more than 4 targets at once but also that after lvl 30, this thing is resisted by pretty much anything.
It clearly isnt working as it should be and in its current form, way too overpowered.