[Jete]

Roger that Crib, you must've learned exactly what I did while kiting. Let me ask all you bards though ( sorry for changing your topic Crib ) Is charm kiting even worth doing since the latest changes to charm? I sent a long explanation to Haynar on how the rescent "nerfs" to enchanters have destroyed bard charm kite which was already non-classic. Again this isn't one of those negative posts, just a question to the community of Bards.

When I was your level Crib, I would get much more xp by chain charm kiting the specs in oasis rather than 4-5 aoe kiting.. I don't know if you have hit the charm kiting level, but when you do- let me know if it is still superior to AoE kiting.

To conclude this, I totally agree with you Lazor- I hate it when people act like Bards are some sort of second class citizen. But it is not without reason. I have seen so many bad bards that its sad. When I joined IB they were hardly recruiting bards because they said, "What can they offer us besides mana song?" After a few very skilled bards appeared, such as Doug, Mythoxxus, a few from divinity ( sorry I forget your names! ) and Arkanjil, the appearance of bards changed for a little while (at least at the raid scene). A lot of these guys quit and it seems to have resumed that course. If any of you played WoW I would compare this situation to that- until more guides come out to tell you exactly how to play a bard, people won't do it very well. In WoW people would wait for specific builds to come out with number crunches to see the highest amount of DPS, then "skilled players" would simply copy that build and do the same thing to yield the same results. I am not saying that people that copy others are unskilled, I am just saying that we as humans have to have a guide to work things. It is how we learn. In otherwords, guides like this from Crib are the only way for people to learn. As I am on a day shift now, I will start contributing again and I hope you all support me in this effort- be it either by constructive criticism or by posting things I have never seen or thought of. Bard is a meta-gaming class, and has more than one way to master it.

P.S.- I will be posting a huge bug report in the bug forums about charm kiting, and I need really fair opinions and comments on it, both from bards and enchanters alike. I won't discuss it further here, but I need people to at least post and say they agree with what I am saying- so we can catch the GM's attention and get it fixed.

Thanks again for hearing me out, I love this server and most importantly, I love the bard class. I will always fight for it, and do my best to ensure people know that when they see a bard, he is a force to be reckoned with.

Edit- I will now again be working on the "Jete Bard How to guide" and will include much more than just cheesy videos with my 12 year-old voice in the background.