How many songs can a bard twist maximum?
 

What is the maximum number of songs a bard can twist? 4 or 5? I spoke to some high level bards and they said 4 but I think on the P99 wiki it says 5. Any clarification?

Just did 5 on my 18 bard.

I know on live you could keep 3 beneficial/detrimental songs up reliably and 4 beneficial/detrimental songs up with only 1 falling off every now and then for a split second.

Here it seems to be 4 beneficial pretty reliably(have not tried 5 beneficial because I did not want to limit my utility), have also been able to keep 5 detrimental up with only 1 falling off every now and then for a split second (snare, 3 dots, and a mez).

Which songs?

Anthem de arms, selos, Elemental Rhythms, Jonthan's Whistling warsong, Hymn of restoration.

And they were all up at the same time, consistently? I'm pretty sure this isn't possible. I know that if you time it well enough though you can functionally twist 5 songs because Hymn only takes effect every server tick (so it would drop briefly but you'd recast it before the next tick). Does that sound right? Or are you just really fast with your fingers?

/stopcast
/cast 1
/pause 27
/stopcast
/cast 4

just set up a couple hotkeys like that and its easy to keep them up.

Does not a missed note completely sabotage that?

^ yep, screws up sometimes and if the first song misses, than it pauses 27 anyway. Kind of annoying. But i assume once im not lvl 18 i wont have to worry about that as much ha

I imagine that would completely nullify the cast bar disappearance "omg must have missed a note" reflex, unfortunately however, even at 54 I find my songs do miss notes enough to discourage a hotkey macro. (

Also curious about how a macro would interfere if say, a mob wanders into camp mid-combat and you attempt to mez. Seems like the hotkey would really make that situation more troublesome than it should be. Of course if you only want to be a buff bot and not worry about utility that may make it more viable I suppose.