Bard Kiting - 101

[Kowalski]

For Velious kiting, I'd start out in EW with Ry'Gors and dwarves. Perhaps move into WW afterward and grab Velium Hounds. I'd say try WL, but visibility is a pita imo.

[assazzin]

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

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

Snaring mobs increases dps or I didn't understand something right ?

[Delvesh]

Snaring does not help dps, it shrink the circle the mobs run in and creates a ton of agro for PBAE duoing. I was looking for some pointers. I've been messing with it but it's very hard to run in that tight of a circle and not occasionally over/under run your kite and get hit.

By far, normal straif kiting is easier since your circle is bigger and the turning tempo is alot slower.

[Saludeen]

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

Snaring mobs increases dps or I didn't understand something right ?

Nah, don't snare. Strafe and run normal speed without selos. And learn to twist three dots while swapping instruments, otherwise it will take forever, especially in BW.

[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]

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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.

[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.

[DevGrousis]

at any point are you planning on making a leveling guide to go with this video? I'm 18 now and the guides are pretty freakin weak. Your video was amazing, but a little 1-8 here, 8-15 here guide to go with it would be freakin awesome !

thanks!