Bard Kiting - 101

[Pipip]

At first I thought this was just a troll attempt, but I tried it, and sure enough, you can no longer outrun mobs by strafing or a combo of forward/strafe. This affects a lot of things, not just bard kiting.

[MaCtastic]

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

At first I thought this was just a troll attempt, but I tried it, and sure enough, you can no longer outrun mobs by strafing or a combo of forward/strafe. This affects a lot of things, not just bard kiting.

This is being addressed. Issue with latest patch. Also, Bards+Jboots = Selo speed for 10m.

[Kahlid74]

Haynar says they found and fixed the issue but it's now in Roegan's court for when the update gets deployed.

I taught myself to selo's kite and here's the outcome.

LoIO - at level 27-29 I was selo's/denon's kiting around 15-20 blue to yellow skellies. Selo's kiting is quite different because you have to turn much faster. It wreaks havoc on my wrist because you are never ending turning.

I bound 3(selo) and 4(denon) to my two mouse buttons right by my thumb. Then I bound strafe left/right to A/D. So I would hold w and either a or d to keep strafing forward while circling with my mouse and using my thumb to twirl. You have to be careful to never let selo's drop. So if either selo's or denon's fails you need to cast selo's next.

I did not switch instruments but instead kept the horn in all the time. As long as I was strafing it was fine. If I stopped and started walking straight the mobs could reach me and killed me. I died 3 times.

It takes a bit longer to kill mobs but it's still feasible.

[Kileras]

issue fixed

[Duff73]

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

issue fixed

Nice Kil where did you test at?

[Sivaeb]

Would like to know test areas too [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Will post my results in a few hours, after work

[Kahlid74]

Tested FV/LoIO/OT. Generally fixed. Feels like mobs overall have a tiny bit bigger hitbox/tiny bit faster but non Selo's kiting is now possible again.

[Sivaeb]

I believe i said the same thing to a bard i helped out [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Was it you? FV, within the past 10 mins

[Joshk80k]

Has anyone tried kiting enormous swarms? I seem to be dcing if the swarm is bigger than 50 mobs. It's happened to me 4 times now, but if I keep my swarm kinda small it doesn't happen.

[Kahlid74]

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

I believe i said the same thing to a bard i helped out [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Was it you? FV, within the past 10 mins

Yeap, that was me, in all my glorious Bronze! Thanks again for the help!