I'd like some immortal input on how they feel about frightful fiend. Honestly aren't bards powerful enough without this song to have a one-trick song that they can sing fairly regularly that is almost (1/3-1/2 the time) insta-kill on any non-prepped lower than human int char. I don't think this is a very exciting factor in the game when my char gets hit with a fiend I have to flee quaff. If I'm a giant I start healing, if I'm an Orc I die. If I got slept beforehand this will DEFINITELY kill me. I have no chance at all against it. Yes there are svs mental preps, but seriously do I need to have this anytime I see a bard as a mandatory prep. I guess the answer currently is yes, but why is it so strong?

The hunt is also an extremely powerful skill that prevents you from wording but has the same power output as fiends probably more but you can get away from it. If you get hit with a powerful fiend you're dead. Someone tell me why they still have something like this in the game?

I would suggest make fiend take you to 1hp? Then you realize you are not longer afraid of it. Make it have to track you like the hunt. But the fact that a bard can sing it and then do whois blank over and over and see they are dead is not an awesome addition to the game. Of course the reason this is coming up now instead of later is because right now there are a TON of bards who do it all the time and it is getting really really old.