Wow thanks for the answers guys. I am definitely enjoying Dramor right now as basically I get to play both my warrior and enchanter at once, albeit in a slightly gimped way ;D
So stacking Guardian/Elemental Rhythms with Selos drum at 60 should give 35*2.4 = 85CR/FR/DR/PR and 170MR ? The MR number is impressive but the other resists not so much. Combined with Circle and DS that only comes to +162. Somehow I expected more. I guess for say the Queen in Chardok I'd just sing Psalm of Warmth and melee.
Right now at 25 my base twist for melee mobs is Selos Consonant Chain, Psalm of Warmth, Healing, and Denon's (when grouped with an enchanter, otherwise swap the Psalm for Jonathan's / Anthem). For Casters I tried using resist songs but I never resist anything even with 100+, so now I basically just spam Kelins (I guess Crissions in 3 more levels) and pray for interrupts as mobs at 25 cast pretty fast.
Four more questions:
7) How well do bards tank at 50+ ? At 25 obviously the fungi fixes everything. At least in my experience on Sak whether or not the mob is slowed totally annihilates any AC/HP difference, and it really doesn't seem that high anyway: our wiki quotes Arrisard at 880AC, Sakuragi at 960, and Sworen at 980 (although all those numbers are off, Sak is like 985 in raid gear). I would think that a Bard with a fungi tanking a 35% slowed mob would do substantially better than a Warrior tanking a 0% slowed mob, plus the bard has no aggro issues with Selos CC. On Sak I was never able to taunt off a bard doing Selos CC. Granted Sak had like 130 unbuffed dex, but it feels like SCC might have the same aggro as a regular slow?
8) Do the unsynchronized ticks make mez/charm durations more consistent? (Model A: every bard song lasts 18 seconds, or Model B: the NPCs are on separate threads which so its even more random than before).
9) Stop dodging my question arrisard! It's reasonable that there is no 1-size-fits-all set of songs, but there should be a few different common twists for different levels/situations.
10) Assuming that you are grouped with an enchanter/shaman and don't have to sing haste, is the Epic really that much better than the Breath of Harmony for xp groups? Its 80% on the stats that arguably are the least important (no mana regen, no attack/movement slow, no haste) and you lose an entire song in the Niv's click. 10/18 probably isn't that much worse than 16/26 for melee damage, although of course you are losing out on a ton of stats.
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