Spells: Bard Songs

[Shin Noir]

This is a EQEMU bug with the "locking spell casting bar" part. It's really aggravating, and the reason I wouldn't play a bard on P1999. As you know on live there's a lot of broken things on bards, and on EQEMU there have been many attempts to perfect it. My personal theory is a clash between the client and server on stopping song playing, some op code being expected by the client the server isn't sending. /melody has the same issue. The fix was to allow a #melody command, but that one is too powerful on the emu's that do it since it never fizzles, and isn't interruptable. You have to say #melody again to stop it.

Your bash and taunt buttons are likely due to titanium, but if you try to use the buttons, it won't work. Just remove the buttons, and I don't think you'll even find them in ALT+M (menu buttons -> actions or whatever).

So these kind of bard mechanic things are stuff that you would have to wait for a smart dev to put focus on and try to resolve, I've peeked at it a bit and my theory is above, and I know other devs who tried to mess with it usually get lazy and go for faster fixes (#melody), so yeah.

In regards to the casting bar bug, I usually try to change targets, and cast it e.g. on myself, and it will some times fix the chain "can't cast" bug, another is to wait ~3 seconds to let the server finish casting this song it thinks you are, and then the client can sync up with timing and you can cast again. Not a great fix, but it some times work.

there's talk about hotbuttons of /pause /cast /stopsong etc too.

I don't envy playing a bard on EQEMU without #melody, that's for sure. :P