| AA Details | |
|---|---|
| Category | General |
| Ranks | 1 |
| Type | Passive |
Description[]
Fading Memories (sometimes shortened to FM or fade) is an activated AA for the bard class, purchasable from level 63 onward.
Activating Fading Memories immediately causes all hostile mobs to forget about the bard and makes the bard invisible. It has a one-second reuse timer, costs 900 mana to activate, and always succeeds. Its effects can be likened to a kind of inverted memory blur which selectively removes only the user from all hate lists he or she is currently on.
Strategic Impact[]
Fading Memories is a game-changing utility AA, dramatically increasing the bard's versatility when exploring, pulling, performing crowd control, skipping mobs, dragging corpses, and generally avoiding death.
With its one-second cooldown, Fading Memories is by far the most spammable of all fade abilities in the game, and the 900 mana cost is usually a trivial concern with out of combat regeneration available, particularly as the bard advances in levels and gains a progressively larger mana pool. (Bards who die on raids and then get rezed will feel the effects of this mana cost more sharply, since the out of combat regen timer for raid mobs if five minutes rather than thirty seconds.)
The spammability of Fading Memories contributes greatly to the bard's widespread reputation as a safe and reliable puller in late-middle and high-level content.
The ability's influence in the game's culture is so large that its nickname "fade" came to be used to describe any other ability that mimics its effect.
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Ranks[]
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| Rank | Cost | Min Level | Expansion |
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| 1 | 3 | 51 | EverQuest (sample only) |
| 2 | 3 | 60 | Shadows of Luclin (sample only) |
| 3 | 5 | 65 | Shadows of Luclin (sample only) |
| 4 | 5 | 66 | Shadows of Luclin (sample only) |