How are Bards in the DPS department?

[pickled_heretic]

Here's the REAL story of the former AE mez...
In beta it was super overpowered. It could lock down an entire zone. This caused all bard mez songs to have a second resist check added. Essentially, the song could land but not affect the creature. This led to the supremacy of Enchanters in crowd controlling (and monks in pulling, as a bard's only tool for controlling a lull failure was removed).

Bards complained bitterly about this state of affairs, while Verant denied there was any problem. This came to a head in a famous (among bards at least) episode where a dev came to watch a demonstration in the Qeynos newbie yard as a high level bard attempted to mez the level 1 snakes, only to have a near 100% resist rate.

Eventually the second resist check was removed, and this song changed to single target.

Thank you for posting this, Falkun. Sounds like the devs need to add a 2nd resist check, to make the song useless (e.g. classic). That sounds like a great way to fix it. This song was a non-factor during classic as it should be here.

We currently have the overpowered beta version. We should be using the version with the 2nd resist check, and we should be using it for the duration of this server's existence.