LOW level bard aoe kiting?

[revsta]

Is this possible as a viable LOW level leveling option? I'm talking LOW. Like pre10 and teens? I've never played a bard before and just started up. It seems like cod doesn't hit enough early on to make this viable, am I right?

[element08]

It's possible, just a pain. You can start at 2 with strafe running until you get selo's. It takes practice to consistently hit with the aoe and not get hit.

[Frug]

You can do it at 2. I did levels 8-15 in North Karana on wisps alone. I know of one person getting 30% of a level in FOB on one pull (of 30 or so mobs) he says, at level 17. Takes 15-20 minutes.

To make it viable, you need a lute which you don't get a skill for until level 8, but it's DOABLE, just takes a lot longer at 2.

[Orruar]

It's an option but not really faster than just normal tank and spank leveling really until 18.

[tanknspank]

I did level 4 in Steamfont, strafe-kiting kobolds and it worked very well. Oddly I am having more of a problem once I got Selo and my drum because I tend to either be out of range of the song or so close I get hit.

[Scikala]

I did level 4 in Steamfont, strafe-kiting kobolds and it worked very well. Oddly I am having more of a problem once I got Selo and my drum because I tend to either be out of range of the song or so close I get hit.

If you strafe kite, you don't use selos...you only need it to gather mobs, after that you strafe kite. Selo's is usually used when you "tap" - I strafe kited a bard to 50 naked and never used selo's.

[tanknspank]

That's what I meant, I had better success with strafe (w/o selo) at 4 than tap-selo at 5. Although I am slowly getting the hang of the selo version.

[Scikala]

Honestly if you can already strafe and land CoD, no reason to learn tap unless your hands get too tired. But I'm lazy...so who knows.

[Glenzig]

It's an option but not really faster than just normal tank and spank leveling really until 18.

I hope you mean in a good XP group. This statement is very false when it comes to soloing. Not even close.

[Scikala]

I hope you mean in a good XP group. This statement is very false when it comes to soloing. Not even close.

1. Make Qeynos Bard(Call in sick to work, this step is key for 2/3)
2. Tank spank to 12
3. Hand in fangs
4. Profit.

[Glenzig]

1. Make Qeynos Bard(Call in sick to work, this step is key for 2/3)
2. Tank spank to 12
3. Hand in fangs
4. Profit.

Gnoll fangs got a hefty nerf. Went there at 12 with my bard. Not worth it.

[labrat777]

Thinking of doing this for my first character since coming back, is there a 1-50 bard guide anywhere?

[tanknspank]

The wiki has a variety of guides, both class specific and not:

http://wiki.project1999.com/Players:Adventure

[Calidore]

Honestly if you can already strafe and land CoD, no reason to learn tap unless your hands get too tired. But I'm lazy...so who knows.

What does that mean? "Learn Tap?"

[Tewaz]

1-50 bard kite guide is...
1-8 don't kite.
8-18 still shouldn't kite, but you can if you want to.
18-23 EK
23-31 SK
31-48 OT
48-55? BW

[Mandalore93]

Did 2-44 kiting.
2-4 in WFP newbie yard.
4-9ish in EC
9-14 or so in WC
14-19ish in EK
19-24 OT
24-29/30- LOIO
30-44 OT

The only bitch pre-12 is pulling, even with throwing daggers they'll tag you a lot of the time.

[skacat]

I tried to go to OT at 29 and got way too many resists and went back to SK. 31 or 32 would probably be better.

It's definitely possible to use chords, and if you think that's too slow, it's never getting much faster. Just do more mobs at once (where people aren't already camped, etc.). Remember to stretch occasionally.

[Daldaen]

At 30 I resist a lot in OT, I've resorted to just charm killing for a level, may try again at 31 or may charm kill another level before I AE again.

[daasgoot]

At 30 I resist a lot in OT, I've resorted to just charm killing for a level, may try again at 31 or may charm kill another level before I AE again.

drovlargs in FV are phenomenal 28-38

[zanderklocke]

drovlargs in FV are phenomenal 28-38

They have a rough hit box though compared to smaller mobs.

[Tewaz]

I couldn't handle the drovlargs unless I had a hard connection and all windows closed, and the stars aligned.