Guide to AoE Bard Kiting, here on P99.

[valorborn]

Originally Posted by Toomuch [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Some people seem to be complaining a lot about bards... meanwhile I'm loving it. I'm really mastering ae kiting... if you get really good at it, and can find a spot to always be doing it, I don't see how charm kiting could possibly be any better exp. I'm AE kiting aviaks in SK, just dinged 20, I'm strapped for time otherwise I'd be going tons faster. Anyways the point is I always kite at least 5 mobs, and three times today I kited 7 mobs at a time, one time I had 5 yellow aviak rooks and 2 blue darters, this was at level 19, dinged me to 20 on that pull [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]. I'm getting to the point where honestly I rarely get touched anymore.

Your post makes me sad, as does the OP's. Saying bard kiting here takes more skill to pull off is one thing but kiting 4-7 mobs as a bard as the standard is lame.
You should be able to kite all the aviaks + all the gnolls at the paw. That's actually why it is called swarm kiting instead of quad kiting like with a dru/shm/wiz.
Fact that you have to pretty much accept getting hit a few times during every pull makes it impossible to swarm kite. Reduces bards into a force to be less reckoned with than a druid for soloing.

Although I think that bards literally less than a shadow of their former glory (good luck EVER soloing Tantor when they launch velious). It is probably for the best in a way as it keeps people from dinging 5 and soloing orc hill. Not that I didn't make a bard as soon as I logged in the first time and promptly leveled up to 5 only to find out that I barely outrun a mob with using Selo's and no drum. I love bards but I am pretty bummed out about this.

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