Bard AoE kiting How-to & Screenshots

[Tewaz]

And AOE Kiting works?

WTS PL!!

[cinar12x]

nice song i like that

[Tewaz]

BOTTT!!!^^^

My favorite part was when he said nice song, like we are bards or something, songs and shiz like that lol.

[Maben]

Originally Posted by Pringles [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thanks for all the info in this thread and other bard threads.

My record is in the last screen shot there - 52 exp mobs (there were a handful of other non exp mobs in that kite but that doesnt count now does it [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] )

P.S. The best thing ive found to reduce huge kite lag is shut off shadows. If you play with them on, shut them off before you kite - it saved me TONS of lag and I've been a lot more successful since.

This "P.S." helped me tremendously. I tried all the other "lower settings" options that others have suggested with minimal if any effect. As soon as I turned off shadows my lag significantly improved. Anyone who has other suggestions for kiting post them here!

[Zalgyr]

So does anyone want to post their experiences with City of Mist? I'm loving kiting in OT, and looking forward to BW in a couple more levels (shout-out to Tuneyards for showing me the ropes!), but I'm always interested in a change of pace for a night or two.

~Z

[Pringles]

Originally Posted by Maben [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This "P.S." helped me tremendously. I tried all the other "lower settings" options that others have suggested with minimal if any effect. As soon as I turned off shadows my lag significantly improved. Anyone who has other suggestions for kiting post them here!

Nice! Glad it helped someone else, I havent really seen it mentioned anywhere else, but it was a huge win for me - it was preventing me from doing pretty much anything over 20 mobs.

I did 100% of level 37 in 1 pull, and 100% of level 38 in another pull [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Level 39 was ~2 pulls, and now I'm 40. Leveling flies at this rate, my problem is time IRL.... I have none left to play as much as I would like.

[Tewaz]

True, shadows are the big killer. Also, I am hoping for some info on CoM kiting. If not, Zalgyr and I will make our own strategy!

[Zalgyr]

Tewaz, looks like it's you and me for CoM. Want to give it a try this week? I'll run over with you.

Also, those of you who are doing BW (or have done it) - a question! I gave the zone an initial spin last night en route to DL. In OT I only used DDD for kiting due to the extra 5 range - when I kited with only DDD in BW, the mobs seemed to be regenning almost as fast as I could kill them off. Have you found this to be the case, and if so, do you usually kite with all 3 songs (CoD, DDD, and CoC)? I'm not a HUGE fan of using the 30 range songs, but I'll do it if I have to...or I'll just do spirocs.

Cheers!

[Tewaz]

Zalgyr, Tuneyards told me he uses all three songs since the mobs in BW have atleast 4 times the hp of mobs in OT. Also, I got some info on kiting in CoM that got shared by PM, I will post it on here in a bit. I will be doing some hardcore CoM Wednesday night, my bard is already over in TT, hit me up!

[Tewaz]

Did some CoM last night and it was pretty fun. I pulled in and around the goo house. The difficulty really is in pulling.
If I had a monk to FD pull everything to me for the kite, it would have been better.
I recommend pulling everything you see EXCEPT the goos. They have very high MR and their HP is gigantic. I was level 46 and they were blue, white, and yellow. I was doing a kite and the goo had 75% hp left when the rest of the kite died. After that I charmed the goo and murdered some golems which worked well since the goo was hitting for 120.

Good luck to anyone else that tries.