Bards solo. What is possible?
 

Reviving this thread https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=87598

Excluding swarming/kiting around non-summon mobs, What are some impressive things you've soloed on your bard?

Any examples out there of bards doing the solo artist challenges?

What is possible?

Thank you friends!

Kindof a loaded question
Of it doesn't summon you can kinda just kill anything eventually and if it doesn't summon it's probably a blue con mob thats easily killed in General.

Sugz does some pretty amazing solo bard stuff, namely HS west.

https://www.twitch.tv/sugz4/videos

Dang nice mention Toxigen

Found these 2 videos:

- Bard soloing skeletal procurator in HS west https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1232511853
- Swarming in HS West https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1155754690 (woah!)

What else have you all killed (Summoning or non-summoning that was challenging to kill / get to)?

At 60 while working on my epic, I decided to kill a drolvarg warlord (bog standard level 53 warrior mob afaict, and on the solo artist list) by doing melee/slow/ds and mez/regen when I was low.

It took 27 minutes. Would not recommend.

You can pbaoe the room easily when the named isn't up though, which is kind of cool. In one of Sugz's HS videos he shows the technique of keeping a summoner mezzed nearby while pbaoeing the rest, so if I were going to try to solo it again maybe I would mez lock the warlord, pbaoe the room and jail, then use the space to have a little room to fear.

If you can mez it, a 60 bard can kill it solo. Some exceptions

https://wiki.project1999.com/Yeldema

Can solo kill a dragon!

If you can fear it...

https://i.imgur.com/rlAqgUN.png

you can probably do everything on the solo artist challenge up through solo disciple, maybe even some of the howling stones named as long as they are mezzable (if 53 or lower u should be good). getting something like orb of tishan or journeymans walking stick is really important because your mezz will resist and potentially break otherwise on the higher level mobs.

the hardest part would be pulling some of them to somewhat of a safe spot because you will likely have respawns trying to kill something like Froggy, It will take a long time unless you have some decent gear, otherwise you just wont much damage before you have to mezz and heal. fungi/singing steel bp (both) are great items to have. Everything in karnors castle you can just pull/train to the zone in (as long as nobodys there :D) and mezz/snare, zone out, and retag.

a fully decked out bard on p99 might be able to solo some tougher non mezzable, summoning mobs by kiting and sustaining with regen songs / singing steel BP and slowly killing with chants or damage shield. I know on live during PoP era i could do this on the dark elves in kithicor that dropped RBG, twisting regen and singing steel bp and innate tankiness i was able to outregen the damage i took from getting summoned while slowly killing them. An unlucky stun might be too punishing here though, but im sure its possible with raid gear, dain ring, vp lute, maybe a few wort pots etc. basically you're a bootleg torpor shaman that runs in circles.

tldr; if you can mezz it you can kill it!

Bards' solo game can be challenging and isolating. Yes, bards are the finest class in the game (thanks KarmaThaKing! ), but there are three ways to solo and meleeing is effectively out of the question until about level 60.