Hint/Tip/Fact Compilation

[Muleworth]

A bit obvious, but macroing bind wound is one of the more worthwhile ones.

/doability x
/pause 100
/doability x
/pause 100
/doability x

Once you can afford to skill up, there's really no reason not to, it helps with downtime and absolutely saves lives.

Also as an evil character, or someone who doesn't care about Qeynos faction, killing the Millers in Qhills for fun and profit is a great way to get from ~26-34, with a factionless merchant right around the corner in surefall you can easily sell that sweet bronze loot.

There's also a wiki someone made called the 6 minute bard diet, which is nice for days when you feel like soloing at a leisurely pace in relative safety by slaughtering a hapless bard every so often. http://wiki.project1999.com/6-Minute_Bard_Diet

[bulbousaur]

One note about the Dylan Starshine Testament of Vaneer quest - I don't recall what level I did the quest but I remember most of the bandits back in his area were green/light blue. EXCEPT for one roamer that was red who wandered down to Dylan and back away. I remember sweating that out, because the first time I tried to kill Dylan the red one agroed and I had to zone. The higher level roamer should be put there on P99 to make it exciting.

[diplo]

used to be able to invis single pulls with an air pet, before the nerf last week [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[indiscriminate_hater]

shift-clicking automatically chooses the whole stack. alt-left clicking an item pops up the item info (so you don't have to wait w/ the right click method). casting from a sitting position automatically makes you stand up. shift-up / shift-down lets you toggle through your previous chat box commands and tells. F1 targets yourself, F2 first group member, etc.

check out hot keys in the options menu for much more useful stuff (like opening all inventory bags, targeting last person to send you a tell, etc.)

/rewind can get you un-stuck from places like behind that stupid ladder in upper guk leading from the squire to the summoner

"/" is a shortcut for "/who". lots of other shortcuts for classes and names and zones. for example: typing "/ all c 49 60 oa" will give you a list of all un-anonymous clerics 49-60 in the oasis.

also, this one's a bit specific, but bard charm wipes the aggro/hate list on mobs -- excepting, of course, the hate generated from that charm itself. i'm not sure if this works with other class charms, but you can do some pretty cool stuff with this as a bard.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

also, this one's a bit specific, but bard charm wipes the aggro/hate list on mobs -- excepting, of course, the hate generated from that charm itself. i'm not sure if this works with other class charms, but you can do some pretty cool stuff with this as a bard.

Yeah, all charms are like this.

[fadetree]

Nah, thats my understanding too. I still do it to this day to prevent an interrupt.

[Lagaidh]

Oh here's one folks. All casters with a knock back should know this.

You can control the direction of the knock back effect present on many DD spells. I'm a paladin and many later stuns have a knock back effect, meaning that you actually move the mob on which you cast a few feet.

The mob is knocked in the direction the caster is facing when the spell lands. As a tank I used this a lot to keep my mob nearest to me. I would be facing the mob, cast a stun with a knock back, turn around to face the other direction, the knock back spell lands and makes the mob go in the direction I am facing (towards my toon), and then I turn back around for more fighting with a closer mob.

When you have half a raid force that can time this, some of the trickier placement raids after the scope of this server, become easier.

It's still useful here for micro placements.

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

When hot keying spells, create macros with two instances of /cast "x". This should help recast after a fizzle. Example:
/cast 3
/cast 3

[zanderklocke]

You can bank through walls. In places like Overthere, you can just run up to the wall and click on the banker from the outside. That way you don't have to deal with KOS mobs on the inside. I suppose this probably works for people in places like NFP too?

Although this was nerfed with the rogue sneak/hide patch and most people didn't know about it, bards could sneak exactly the same way rogues used to be able to. You had to play invis song, click off buff, then get a successful sneak and hide prior to invis buff coming back from song. If it worked, you could walk around invisible to everything except mobs that saw through hide like fire giants. To be even crazier...if you played your lull song while successfully hidden, you could invis pull mobs easily as a bard...you just had to wait until a critical resist.

[Trazic]

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

You can bank through walls. In places like Overthere, you can just run up to the wall and click on the banker from the outside. That way you don't have to deal with KOS mobs on the inside. I suppose this probably works for people in places like NFP too?

This is very good to know.