<<You may be a fine musician, but let the bards handle the dance music.>>

you were most likely on a dance floor at the time would be my guess


Yamcer

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"You know, while I understand the importance of seeing the (personal) validity in other's arguments, it's impossible for me to believe fully that others are correct. If their argument was correct, I'd change mine." - My GF

It's just random messaging as far as I can tell. The location of where you hum doesn't seem to impact it.

- Simon

It only happened for some song types for me, I think rumba, polka and reel were the last ones, on minuet now.

-Azhag

Anyone know what skill is required for non-bards to hum a perfect minuet? I was thinking (hopeing) it was expert, but just reached that and still having difficulty.


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Around 320-330 I was able to hum a quiet minuet without the "hint of difficulty messaging."

-Coralin

I want to say charisma boosts your humming ability, but I haven't explicitly tested it. So if you're reporting ranks, report charisma too?

Aye, it's the masterful minuet I'm looking for. I've been fumbling it for the last 50 ranks, thinking that 300 would be the turning point. I'm not sure what the exact messaging is, "filled with pride", etc.
>hum min masterful
You fumble slightly as you begin to hum a masterful minuet.

Once that fumbling goes away, your song will help boost spirit recovery for anyone listening. As a ranger using spirit for beseeches, I find that very appealing. Since Coralin stopped fumbling the quiet minuet around 320-330, perhaps the target skill is near there.

Charisma is 36, 'case that's a factor.
Thanks,
Cerran


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<<I want to say charisma boosts your humming ability, but I haven't explicitly tested it. So if you're reporting ranks, report charisma too? >>

I can confirm this.


humming with paladin with 56 vocals and 24 charisma i can hum a march with slight difficulty,
humming with a necro-commoner with 56 vocals and only 8 charisma i can't hum the march without fumbling.



It's a number, it gets bigger. That's the whole DR experience right there

>>Necrommoner.

Heh that sounds like some kind of tool. Necrometer?

Discuss.

GENT

May I ask, are there other effects from other forms of music that a non bard does? I ask, because I just recently started working music and have never heard of this before.. sorta startled me. If there are other effects or other ones that help heal the spirit, would someone mind listing them? This is info that is interesting.. next time I die (which should be soon enough) I will have to test this out.. and if I am having a prank pulled on me, well lol... I deserve it I guess for waiting so long. Thanks... :-)

>So far there are no other PLAY-induced benefits outside of bardic enchantes. I believe the "one day" plan is to add more, but they are concerned about taking away from enchantes.


Playing a hymn or psalm at a devotion-capable altar or shrine provides a soul boost for paladins. Requires 100+ in your chosen instrument for hymns and 200+ in your chosen instrument for psalms."

hymns and psalms work for both cleric devotion and paladin soul.


The undead hordes would like to take this moment to remind you that they are quite happy to eat your brains so that you may test new depart.Please consider it.Hugs and kisses, Team Necro.

>Currently I have 96 vocal ranks, what should I be humming?

Try wedding or hymn.

>How long should i wait before moving up?

Personally I switch when I can hum the next higher song on the list slightly.

>When I do move up, do I just first cycle through all of the moods for a song type? Or something else?

So far just using the default HUM <song> has worked well as long as I'm humming slightly.

We'll see what the exp is like when I hit concerto in the not too distant future.

This is with a Lore prime character.

You can do one of the things the last two posters suggested.

Move up the basic difficulty ladder. When you hum <song type> it defaults to quietly. You can usually hum two types quietly at maximum learning capacity. Either humming the next step up (HUM HELP to find out what it is) or trying a different play style (romantic, haunting, masterful, etc) will also help.

It really doesn't matter what you hum, as long as you do it with a slight hint of difficulty

Hope that helps.


- Terra

I just hit 100 vocals and now I use battle, off-key. Before that (from around 75ish I'd say) I was using polka, off-key. Human, Thief, 20 charisma, if that matters.

you only get devotion for playing an instrument< i.e. strings, percussion or winds> at that level, not for humming.

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"If Elanthia can survive putting a dragon inside of its molten core, I think it can survive a few black-robed magicians sitting on Gibbet Hill"-<parshift>

If you want to get devotion from playing you need to do play hymn/psalm for <immortal>, do it in a holy area and not do it with any difficulty. Hopefully hum will get hooked into it as well at some point.


~Thilan
"To be honest, my son, the practice of Holy magic is really just reckless tampering with one's soul."