Bard questions.

[Tobius]

Wow thanks for all the feedback, nice to see there's cool smart people outside of the insane racists in R&F I remember from years back.

I'm loving there's actually not a consensus on level and fear vs charm... Hmm

I guess I've got fucking ages before I'm high enough level.

I think the absolute highest the bard would be is 52. I want a char to be a dragon alt, and I don't think I'll ever bothering leveling 3 chars up.

I should have clarified the entire purpose is the masks and bp's. So killing whatever drops those, is a must, I guess if there's more than one forager up if there's a named nastier than the bp and mask dude we could just avoid that one and go for other foragers.

[ThePeoplesBard]

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

I'm loving there's actually not a consensus on level and fear vs charm... Hmm

I should have clarified the entire purpose is the masks and bp's. So killing whatever drops those, is a must, I guess if there's more than one forager up if there's a named nastier than the bp and mask dude we could just avoid that one and go for other foragers.

If you love a lack of consensus, then Bard was definitely the right class for you. Every Bard thread is full of level 60s disagreeing about mechanics, techniques, etc. I'm with you, though--it's a testament to how dynamic the class is, and that's exciting.

And, unfortunately, going "for other foragers" won't work. The Hunter has its own cycle with a set of named, and the Forager has its own cycle with a set of named. If a nasty named in either cycle spawns, you won't see Hunter or Forager again until you gun down the named. When I was soloing at lower levels and spawned Doom, that basically meant my Hunter cycle farming was done for the day because I couldn't kill him alone.

Couple other things I'd point out: I started hating this camp after they instituted lazy aggro last year; it made pulling a named to a safe spot to kill agonizingly slow. I stopped doing the camp outright a few months ago when I kept slaving to spawn a named, then a Ranger or Druid would snag it before I could. There are just too many snipers happy to sit around while a Bard does the hard work, and then they grab the good spawns with their superior Track. It's technically okay by the rules, but I didn't have the stomach for it.