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Originally Posted by RPGrandPa
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Played the game on launch, never raided much at all and played a Cleric back then. Was thinking of trying a Bard since I am returning brand new on Green. Never played one, but they seem like a lot of fun. I played on live at launch but only made it to 25-30'ish I forget.
My biggest fear is being main puller. I don't know enough about the game to effectively be a puller lol I would not even know how if I had to do dungeons and lord raids would be murder since I've never raided.
So my questions are:
1) I figure I'll be soloing for most of my leveling life but at 40+ if I find groups, what will be my roll in the group?
2) For raiding what would be my role? I've heard Bards are mostly song bots on raids, is this true?
I basically want to see if playing a Bard (for me) is a mistake or not. Sure, over a long time of playing I'm sure I would learn but that's way down the road.
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OP, you can totally play bard. You don't have to do all the things people in this thread are describing. You don't have to be some kind of Jimmy Neutron meganerd bard.
1) Crowd control. Level 15 mez, later replaced by level 28 mez, and level 27 charm spell. You can turn a 3- or 4- mob cluster**** into a nice chunk of exp for your group by neutralizing enemies, or even weaponizing them. And what's better than neutralizing adds? Never having adds in the first place thanks to level 8 Kelin's Lugubrious Lament. Two enemies next to each other? Lull Mob A, pull Mob B.
2) Certain raids you kite (attract mobs without getting hit, then run in a circle for many minutes while your guildmates kill stuff). Certain raids, you "bump" (use your Deftdance discipline to parry all attacks from the front). But most raids, such as Halls of Testing or Kael Arena or even Vindi, you just manasong the clerics (and necros).
If you're not up for all the fancy stuff and different methods of soloing and feats of high-APM nerd glory, that's fine, your bard is still powerful.
Be sure to set a "cycle through nearby NPCs" button. And I also like to set a "target nearest NPC" button. You can do this in Options (Alt-O) > Keys.