[finalgrunt]

A bard should be able to use a summoned lava diamond (cf spell: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/s...tml?spell=1818 ) to stack it on top of other dmg shields:

from http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=6795:

Actually mages summon these and give them to bards... who in turn cast them on other people. If a bard casts it, the effect will stack with every other damage shield out there, including the mage DS.

So yes this is an extreamly useful item.

This changed 2 patches ago. Bards now use items just like everyone else, and their use no longer has any innate bard stacking privaleges.

from http://everquest.allakhazam.com/hist...s-2001-1.html:

May 30, 2001

** Spell and Song Changes and Bug Fixes **

- We've been fixing holes in the spell stacking code. For the most part
the changes fix bugs that allowed tricks to get spells to stack that
were never intended to stack.