Bard Kiting - 101

[zanderklocke]

When you use the AE snare post 54, it is incredibly easy to kite the mobs. You don't even really have to move in a circle and can just slowly walk away from them. The only time you absolutely have to go in a circle with the level 54 AE snare song is if you have mobs of different types of speeds in your kite, such as tigers mixed with cactuses.

This is also a lot easier on your wrist if you are constantly moving the mouse to go in a circle. As mentioned by someone earlier, this will allow you to power level or duo with casters who have a PBAOE spell much easier. They can just sit still while you slowly keep the mobs on top of them in a circle. They will never pull aggro away from you.

Once you hit 59, you can twist denon's bereavement, chords of dissonance, and denon's disruptive. While doing this, make sure you are twisting in selo's assonant strain with a lute equipped to super slow the mob speed down. You can swap in the horn for denon's disruptive, but you absolutely have to have the lute equipped when you do the snare and the other songs.

Once you try this method, I don't know why you would ever go back to full speed kiting. With the VP lute equipped, it slows the mob movement speed down by 240%. With just the gypsy lute, which is easy to get, equipped, you're looking at a 210% mob speed reduction.

[zanderklocke]

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

Once you try this method, I don't know why you would ever go back to full speed kiting. With the VP lute equipped, it slows the mob movement speed down by 250%. With just the gypsy lute, which is easy to get, equipped, you're looking at a 210% mob speed reduction.

Made mistake above, should be 250% and not 240%. Although, I think there might be a cap on how slow the movement speed can be. I didn't really notice too much difference from switching from the gypsy lute to Lyran's Mystical lute after I acquired it.

[zanderklocke]

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During an off peak time, I was able to AE snare power level someone and they gained about 4 levels in one pull on the blue server. DON'T DO THIS WHEN OTHER PEOPLE ARE EXPING AROUND YOU OR IN THE ZONE!

[Delvesh]

Thanks Zan. I'll mess around with it some more. Think I was to focused on getting into a tight circle rythem, but at the speeds the mobs are going I guess you can afford to be a little less ridged about that vs straif kiting.

[zanderklocke]

Yeah, you can be incredibly sloppy and not even strafe if you don't want to at that speed. The mobs move so slow that I used to draw pictures with the corpses for fun as they died. I made some pretty cool spirals and designs.

[DarthMartigan]

Anyone tried WW wyverns?

[Mithicor]

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

Anyone tried WW wyverns?

I think WW wyverns summon.

[DarthMartigan]

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

I think WW wyverns summon.

This is quite correct. A guildy told me "They have too much HP and I think they summon." It did not stop me. I got them all to roughly 99% and then got summoned. It was sad, because they're all easy to kite hit boxes and yellow or red [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Nerf summons.

[doa665]

first the videos rocked thanx...

not sure if this was ever covered but FV is giving me some troubles.. i can't seem to get the strafe circle right.. dogs seem to over take me even if i strafe in a line.. i swarmed FoB, OT, LoIo just fine.. but the dogs in FV seem to be faster.. i was able to take a pull and kill it as long as i kept run speed buff up.. but took forever because turning that tight made it hard to land the dot..

so are the dogs faster or am i just rushing circle and getting the wrong circumference??

[DevGrousis]

Originally Posted by doa665 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

first the videos rocked thanx...

not sure if this was ever covered but FV is giving me some troubles.. i can't seem to get the strafe circle right.. dogs seem to over take me even if i strafe in a line.. i swarmed FoB, OT, LoIo just fine.. but the dogs in FV seem to be faster.. i was able to take a pull and kill it as long as i kept run speed buff up.. but took forever because turning that tight made it hard to land the dot..

so are the dogs faster or am i just rushing circle and getting the wrong circumference??

They are not faster, they just have a much larger hit box. I dont have the greatest internet connection/computer setup, so I personally didnt have much success in FV. I went back to OT, at like 33 and kited there for a few levels, but ended up heading to Mistmoore and just grouping. Now i'm 40, and am in CoM thinking about doing a bit of kiting again.

I was speaking with a higher level bard and they were telling me that you have to rock a really big resolution in order for the spacing to make sense. They say that you should be able to see the head of the mobs in the corner of the screen when they're in range. Well when you have a small resolution, them being in the screen means their closer than if theyre in the corner of the screen and you have a bigger resolution. So i upgraded my resolution to as big as it could go, and its done wonders