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Originally Posted by Vexenu
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Bard melee is deceptively good if you're heavily twinked like Adron described earlier in the thread. Your actual melee damage is much lower than a Monk, Rogue or Warrior, but the fact that you can:
1) Slow the mob
2) Haste yourself
3) Regen yourself
4) DS yourself
5) Snare/fear the mob if you get in trouble
All make melee soloing on a twinked Bard quite easy. If you're picking low blue con mobs the level differential will do you a lot of favors as well with your melee damage and tanking ability.
It's obviously not as efficient in terms of XP per hour as swarming, but it's absolutely a viable way to move the XP bar. I definitely would not recommend it on Green, however. I'd only do it on Blue where high quality twink gear is cheap and abundant.
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I'm gonna have a minor Haste item to work with, Swiftclaw Sash. This is so I don't have to hog the hand slot with Silver Chitin Hand Wraps, and I can wear the full Lambent Armor set for fashion and continuity. That'll eventually be replaced with Imbrued set and Belt of Concordance when I start doing Planar raiding.
Still, 15% isn't bad considering it'll stack with a song. The gear list I'm compiling right now:
Di'zok Wristsnapper
Crystalline Shortsword
Velium Fire Wedding Ring x2
Orc Fang Earring x2
Chipped Velium Amulet
Dire Wolf-Hide Cloak
Sebilite Scale Cloak
Sarnak Hide Mask
Swiftclaw Sash
Lambent Helm
Lambent Breastplate
Lambent Greaves
Lambent Vambraces
Lambent Bracer x2
Lambent Boots
Lambent Gauntlets
That will hopefully be enough to get me to at least 50 and into entry-level Planar raiding. Will eventually replace the Crystalline Shortsword with Breath of Harmony too, and have Symphonic Saber as needed for aggro. I'm not even going to think about the Epic until 60.