Bard Kiting - 101

[assazzin]

dunno if it's the size of the mobs but it's more frightening kiting drolvags than cactus in OT [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I always feel like I'm gonna get hit if I am close enough for the 48 pbae to land, is there a visual hint : in OT I could get the lvl 2 pbae to land having sarnaks in the top bottom left/right of the screen, it seems to me I got to be closer (inn term of visual aspect) with the drolvags

[Joshk80k]

It's absolutely the size of the mobs, kiting a cockatrice is wayyy easier than kiting a skulking brute (the brutes are possible but it's incredibly risky).

Drolvargs are somewhere in between the difficulty of those two, but the social aspect and sheer number of drolvargs make FV one of the best spots to do 35-46ish.

[Kileras]

velious spots? ideas ?

[assazzin]

Originally Posted by Duff73 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You should get 48 and selo dot before you hit BW or it will take you an eternity to take out the swarm. Hit DL for a couple of levels.

I did 48-51 in DL, took some deaths to learn the appropriate range with drolvags [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

51 at the moment, tried BW once only and found it hard to find my way in it plus mobs seemed scarce and not social (skellies are ?) versus DL where I can gather mobs quickly an in huge numbers even if lower level.

not sure BW is a good option, maybe I need to learn the paths better
what do you think ?

[Hezron]

You will need to move on to BW eventually if you want to keep kiting. I did it at 51 myself. Bees and gorillas are social but skeletons are not. You will have to avoid aggroing the Gullerbacks with your train and also avoid the sarnak, giants, and wurms as you gather. It will take a little time to learn to pull the zone but then you'll be set. It gets quite tedious.

[Daldaen]

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

You will need to move on to BW eventually if you want to keep kiting. I did it at 51 myself. Bees and gorillas are social but skeletons are not. You will have to avoid aggroing the Gullerbacks with your train and also avoid the sarnak, giants, and wurms as you gather. It will take a little time to learn to pull the zone but then you'll be set. It gets quite tedious.

Avoiding Gullerback is optional. He is magic immune so if you aggro him you can kill your kite and he won't summon you because he never loses health after resisting all your DoTs.

Wurms/Giants have way too big of hit boxes and Sarnaks are casters who SoW/Blind, which is death.

I've done 46-48 on my bard in BW. It's really stressful leveling though. Mobs take forever to die, gathering a train is a 30min+ endeavor, and as always, 1 misstep is death.

What I've recently opted to do is pull a train and get a couple DoT ticks then have a guildmate log on my 60 wizard and cast 1 PBAE in the middle of my train. Dropping 600 HP per cast and zoning after 1-2 to clear aggro, speeds up to kite immensely. Still it's a painful way of leveling. Not as bad as grouping, but it's rough.

[Kileras]

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

Avoiding Gullerback is optional. He is magic immune so if you aggro him you can kill your kite and he won't summon you because he never loses health after resisting all your DoTs.

Wurms/Giants have way too big of hit boxes and Sarnaks are casters who SoW/Blind, which is death.

I've done 46-48 on my bard in BW. It's really stressful leveling though. Mobs take forever to die, gathering a train is a 30min+ endeavor, and as always, 1 misstep is death.

What I've recently opted to do is pull a train and get a couple DoT ticks then have a guildmate log on my 60 wizard and cast 1 PBAE in the middle of my train. Dropping 600 HP per cast and zoning after 1-2 to clear aggro, speeds up to kite immensely. Still it's a painful way of leveling. Not as bad as grouping, but it's rough.

do your thing, but dreadlands is much much better in my opinion until 50-51. zone the ravishings if you need to from the pull, but it is a much faster pull/kite/kill time. stay away from BW as long as possible as you will be there/hate it for awhile.

[Delvesh]

Anyone got a link to a good how to guide on kiting at 54 once you get the AE snare? Been messing around with lower level mobs but not totally comfortable with the smaller circle.

[Saludeen]

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

Anyone got a link to a good how to guide on kiting at 54 once you get the AE snare? Been messing around with lower level mobs but not totally comfortable with the smaller circle.

End of my video shows how to do it while switching instruments. It just takes practice. Its entirely possible (and almost necessary) once you get to BW, unless you want your kite to be painfully slow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBDPkpVPneE

[DarthMartigan]

Anyone have ideas on where to go once velious opens? Specifically for 45+ kiting. I dinged 46 last night (and undinged spectacularly) and I've done a bit in dreadlands already. I'm wondering if there will be places in Velious that feel more like FV or DL?

Also, for any low level bards reading this, FV is amazing. if you can pull pirates and all the drovalgs starting around level 32, you'll get around 100 plat a pull and around a level. I thought the EXP was getting bad at 35 before realizing it was a hell level. I did 36-39 in three pulls, and 45 took maybe 4 full pulls (plus one more because of the unding). You can also do it with another bard there, as long as you pull to somewhere along the cliff and go after they finish. It's impossible for one bard to pull everything because stuff keeps respawning.