Dumb question here, I've been away from the game for a while and now have the vetern rewards abilities. One of them is the Chaotic Jester, what the heck is it and what does it do?
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it heals andbuffs i think it tells jokes and occasionally debuffs you but i dunno
It can be wonderful soloing, fills you with mana or health at random. Talks to you, tells you corny jokes. 
However, be cautious, it can also shrink you or grow you or turn you into a local mob. Hard to pull/fight as a snake for instance. I have heard of it debuffing, but never had that happen to me. If you are an ogre in a dungeon and it grows you, you are stuck awhile if you can't cast shrink.
Best to ask group before you cast. It has saved groups I was in by filling us with mana or health, but it can make people mad if you cast without asking. On raids do not even think of casting it.
It gives poison bread and food occasionally.
However, be cautious, it can also shrink you or grow you or turn you into a local mob. Hard to pull/fight as a snake for instance. I have heard of it debuffing, but never had that happen to me. If you are an ogre in a dungeon and it grows you, you are stuck awhile if you can't cast shrink.
Best to ask group before you cast. It has saved groups I was in by filling us with mana or health, but it can make people mad if you cast without asking. On raids do not even think of casting it.
It gives poison bread and food occasionally.
The Chaotic Jester is a Veteran AA award ability. It may be summoned once a day, and lasts for about 30 minutes, or until the summonering zones or dies.
It takes the form of a Halfling that follows the summoner for the complete of its duration. You may have a pet like normal while its out, and you have no direct form of control over it, outside summoning it and having it follow you.
It does five things.
1.) Tells corny jokes. /em covers ears.
2.) Shrinks or grows summoner and group members.
3.) Turns summoner or group members into monsters found in zone. This is only an illusion, no other effect on game play, outside any size difference and possibly confusing party members. This effect fades when player zones. Single cast, instant. Effect does not show in buff window, but it will say something like "You return to normal as the Jester's influence fades." Duration is roughly 30 minutes.
4.) Summons Temporary-tagged food and bread for anyone in the area at random, single target insta-cast.
5.) Full heals either HP (Bristlebane's Gift) or mana and endurance (Bristlebane's Surprise) of summoner or group member. (Infrequent, but happens occasionally.) Insta-cast, single target.
NOTE: The food and wine he summons are known to be poisenous. This isn't entirely true, always, so let me explain.
Food: 10 HP/tick {iff positive}, 5HP/tick {iff negative}
Wine: 3 mana/tick, 3/Endur/tick
These numbers above are always true. However, they may be positives or negatives. In other words, the food can be a 10HP/tick regen, or a 5HP/tick DoT. Ditto with the wine, with respects to mana and endurance.
I'm not sure how this is governed. More often than not, it seems the food and wine are poisened, hence the reputation that they've aquired.
For me, though I haven't tested extensively, it seems that one is positive after the other's negative effect is already on you. So, eat the food first and drink the wine second, you'll get (-5HP, +3mana, +3endur)/tick. Or wine first, food second, (+10HP, -3mana, -3endur)/tick. Still, this is only a guess based on very limited experimentation.
My second guess seems more likely, even if less romantic: its a random chance, and poisen is simply more likely.
On the upside, though, if you're a Priest or have one with you: cure it. Both negative effects add +6 Poison Counters, relatively easy to cure. I'd keep trying til the positive effects came on, simply curing the negatives.
For completeness's sake:
Food positive effect- Bristlebane's Tasty Bread
Wine positive effect- Bristlebane's Soothing Wine
Food negative effect- Bristlebane's Tasty Bread
Wine negative effect- Bristlebane's Soothing Wine
Edited, Sun Jan 1 17:51:25 2006 by ReofblMobile
Edited, Sun Jan 1 17:52:34 2006 by ReofblMobile
Edited, Tue Jan 3 12:10:58 2006 by ReofblMobile
It takes the form of a Halfling that follows the summoner for the complete of its duration. You may have a pet like normal while its out, and you have no direct form of control over it, outside summoning it and having it follow you.
It does five things.
1.) Tells corny jokes. /em covers ears.
2.) Shrinks or grows summoner and group members.
3.) Turns summoner or group members into monsters found in zone. This is only an illusion, no other effect on game play, outside any size difference and possibly confusing party members. This effect fades when player zones. Single cast, instant. Effect does not show in buff window, but it will say something like "You return to normal as the Jester's influence fades." Duration is roughly 30 minutes.
4.) Summons Temporary-tagged food and bread for anyone in the area at random, single target insta-cast.
5.) Full heals either HP (Bristlebane's Gift) or mana and endurance (Bristlebane's Surprise) of summoner or group member. (Infrequent, but happens occasionally.) Insta-cast, single target.
NOTE: The food and wine he summons are known to be poisenous. This isn't entirely true, always, so let me explain.
Food: 10 HP/tick {iff positive}, 5HP/tick {iff negative}
Wine: 3 mana/tick, 3/Endur/tick
These numbers above are always true. However, they may be positives or negatives. In other words, the food can be a 10HP/tick regen, or a 5HP/tick DoT. Ditto with the wine, with respects to mana and endurance.
I'm not sure how this is governed. More often than not, it seems the food and wine are poisened, hence the reputation that they've aquired.
For me, though I haven't tested extensively, it seems that one is positive after the other's negative effect is already on you. So, eat the food first and drink the wine second, you'll get (-5HP, +3mana, +3endur)/tick. Or wine first, food second, (+10HP, -3mana, -3endur)/tick. Still, this is only a guess based on very limited experimentation.
My second guess seems more likely, even if less romantic: its a random chance, and poisen is simply more likely.
On the upside, though, if you're a Priest or have one with you: cure it. Both negative effects add +6 Poison Counters, relatively easy to cure. I'd keep trying til the positive effects came on, simply curing the negatives.
For completeness's sake:
Food positive effect- Bristlebane's Tasty Bread
Wine positive effect- Bristlebane's Soothing Wine
Food negative effect- Bristlebane's Tasty Bread
Wine negative effect- Bristlebane's Soothing Wine
Edited, Sun Jan 1 17:51:25 2006 by ReofblMobile
Edited, Sun Jan 1 17:52:34 2006 by ReofblMobile
Edited, Tue Jan 3 12:10:58 2006 by ReofblMobile
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Thanks for the input on my post. I tried this guy out today. He turned me into a skelly, beetle then shrunk me. He healed my mana pool twice and gave me some of the bread. At first I thought it was meal so I removed the rations I had and I kept getting "you are out of food". I retrieved the rations then clicked on one of the breads. It kept healing my hp for the next 30 minutes. Hopefully it's all the good stuff. I enjoyed have the little bugger around but I don't think I'll use him with a group.
I always combo him with exp doubleing vet AA. Two are three mana recharges can really speed up the exp gained with exp AA.
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