Bard AoE kiting screenshot thread!

[Tewaz]

Take luck

[Kraftwerk]

An old one I've been meaning to post sometime, it just sums up South Karana for me:

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Also I know Tewaz (Or another Bard) was mentioning largest OT kites a few posts back, I was on late last evening with a couple people in OT and we were basically the only non-AFK members in zone so I went nuts. After it was over I counted the "Your group gained experience" ticks, 111. It gets pretty frightening at that number trying to land even DDD. I have NPC names off, PC names off, hide corpses on a macro I tap whenever things die, all spell effects off, far clip plane down to 10% (I guess I could go 0%). Any other things you guys do to keep lag down?

PS - I contacted Hmo other day just inquiring about how big a kite he'd ever gotten in OT. He told me 240 haha, so now I feel like I'm just in the minor leagues compared to him.

A new one to compliment my old screenshot, this was just 5 minutes ago. A modest 99 mobs:

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[Tewaz]

Did any of you other bards choose Bristlebane as your diety? I don't know what I was thinking the night I made my bard, but he is not agnostic. I was wondering if anyone has any problems when using dark elf/ iksar illusion with Bristlebane as the diety. Let me know.

[Lazortag]

I don't think I've ever done more than ~70 mobs (I've always done about 30-40 on average). It lags like hell even at that many, not sure how you guys do it! 99 mobs is nothing to be disappointed over.

[falkun]

You can turn off DoT damage messages in your options/filters. The text spam can get you just as bad as any visual spam.

[falkun]

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

Falkun brings up a point I have been wondering about. We need a white AND red dragon scale for our epic right? What other classes need these scales?

Red dragon scale is split between bards and warriors for epics. White dragon scales are solely for the bard epic. There is a reason red dragon scales drop off more mobs than white dragon scales (well, 1 more mob, and that's after they release the Hole).

[falkun]

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

Did any of you other bards choose Bristlebane as your diety? I don't know what I was thinking the night I made my bard, but he is not agnostic. I was wondering if anyone has any problems when using dark elf/ iksar illusion with Bristlebane as the diety. Let me know.

I chose Quellious. DE mask allows me to bank in Grobb. I have not tried Ogguk, and I believe the few times I have taken firepots to Neriak I have been non-KOS (maybe dubious?) to the guards, but I didn't check out Neriak to the full extent for fear of dieing, I just made my way to the exit. I don't have an iksar mask to test Cabilis, but I know I'm KOS as a HEF.

[Tewaz]

Thanks for share Falkun

[Moonface]

When I am kiting, I will mouse drive and be kiting fine, suddenly my mouse spazzes out and cuts me directing inward towards the kite... Hmmm?

[Pringles]

Thanks for all the info in this thread and other bard threads.

I've just gotten a good start at this. I started off messing around with 1-2 mobs in GFay, then moved on to LFay. Once I ran out of orcs to kill in LFay I went to FOB. Once the Pit went green in FOB ~20 I went to OT NE corner.



My record is in the last screen shot there - 52 exp mobs (there were a handful of other non exp mobs in that kite but that doesnt count now does it [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] )



P.S. The best thing ive found to reduce huge kite lag is shut off shadows. If you play with them on, shut them off before you kite - it saved me TONS of lag and I've been a lot more successful since.