Game Mechanics: Instrument modifiers aren't applied if the Bard zones.

[gerlon]

It seems that songs of a specific instrument type inherit the with/without instrument status of the last song of that instrument type played. Example:

> Sing Tuyen's Chant of Flame without drums
some mob is hit for 24 damage (from Flame)
> Sing Tuyen’s Chant of Frost with drums
some mob is hit for 50 damage (from Flame)
some mob is hit for 50 damage (from Frost)

So it appears that Tuyen's Chant of Flame just got upgraded to playing with an instrument (even though it wasn't). I also tested this with brass and successfully used Angstlich's Appalling Screech to upgrade Denon's Disruptive Discord from non-instrument to using-an-instrument level of damage. It looks like each instrument type keeps a flag of what the last instrument used was and applies it to all active songs of that type. And from what lazortag said, it appears the flags gets cleared when the bard zones.

Now I didn't play a bard on live so I can't be sure this isn't classic, but it seems suspect to me. Can any classic era bards weigh in on this?