More evidence if needed, from the concert hall.
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Erowen
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(10/6/03 5:50 pm)
Reply Clarification on Chorus of Clarity My apologies if this has been discussed in another thread, but I had very specific questions for a very specific song. Okay. Just wanted some clarity on this topic. I am going to state what I think is true, so correct me where I am wrong as I probably am. The rest of the question is based on the following if it is indeed true.
Chorus of Clarity is a pulsed song, meaning it doesn't linger for 3 ticks (18 seconds), that once it pulses you gain the mana back and that is it. Amplification affects this song (boosts it by 50%), and the Singing Short Sword also affects this song (boosts it by 80%), right?
If this is the case, do both the epic and amp modify the base value of the song or do they modify eachother. What I mean is. Chant of Clarity gives back 7 mana / tick. If you have the Epic, it should be 5 (or 6 rounding up). If amp modifies the base (7) which would equal 3 (4 rounding up) the total result would be 7 + 5 + 3 = 15 mana / tick.
But, if they modify eachother it would be 7 (base) + 5 (SSS 80%) = 13, + 6 (amp 50%), this gives 19 mana / tick. But that is only if SSS is applied first.
What happens if Amp is applied first? 7 (base) + 3 (amp 50%) = 10 + 8 (SSS 80%) = 18 mana / tick.
I know it's only a difference of one mana if they modify eachother in a different order. Just curious if anyone had any information on this in theory. It's been boggling my mind. Also, if there are two bards in the group singing Clarity they will both land due to the pulsing nature of the song?
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Tarin Orain
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(10/7/03 5:00 am)
Reply Re: Clarification on Chorus of Clarity You need to calculate the entire modifier which is applicable to a given song before multiplying it by the base song effect. Thus, the SSS is a base 1.8 modifier, plus .6 to .9 (level-based) for the amp for a total modifier (pre-Harmonize) of 2.4 - 2.6. The modifiers are applied all at once and don't have quite the variance that you think they might.
------------------ also the virtues of pulsing the song instead of letting it play ------------------------
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