Trying out a Bard, Halllpp! Any pro Bards here?

[Savok]

Cinda's Charismatic Carillon. Social mobs generally all share the same faction - I'll let you work anymore out.

[Waedawen]

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

you only saw 1 bard in you /who cuz all the cool kids are /role or /anon
it gives you superpowers i hear

qft.

[pinedepain]

Here are my advices. Some may or may not agree with me though hehe.

- Always twist 4 songs. If you're timing is very good, you have 4 song up with no problems, why would you twist 3 when you can do 4? Plus you get to train yourself to always twist 4, which is equal to 4 mob mezzed in case.

- As a few saids, put everything in HP/STA. You can become a good tank with a full HP/AC/STA stuff, others stats will raise themselves with the gear. Of course with a full charisma stuff you'll get less resists. But, when you'll get a lull resist on a room populated of 4 mobs, you sure wanna be a good tank to have the time to mezz 3 and fight the 4th one. A living bard who does not pump the cleric mana every fight is a more useful bard than the one who'll die on the first resist too many times in raid. (HP is the raid stat imo).

- Speaking of mezzing 3 and fighting the 4th one with a song up, yes you can! Here's the trick. When you cast a song on target A, you can already switch to target B to attack it while your song is still casting, and you're song will land on target A! Here's an exemple of a fight with 3 mobs (Mob A, B and C). Considering you're not in range to attack target A and B, otherwise you'll have to turn off autoattack during the targeting/cast.

/target A, /cast mezz, /target C, when the mezz casting is done --> /target B, /cast mezz, /target C, /cast song2, /cast song3, /target A, /cast mezz, /target C, etc ....

This way you can have 2 song up and 2 mob mezzed while you fight the last one. Pretty useful.

- In contradiction with what a few said. You'll wanna to have the best DPS and (of course aggro if you wanna tank) you can with your weapons. Why? Take the fight exemple with mobs A, B and C. Considering you have a HP/STA stuff and good DPS weaps, you just ownZ the last fight, alone or with a healer. The charisma will be raised by your stuff, so you won't get that many resist if you don't fight too hard mobs.

- In case you're in trouble during a fight, just mezz and heal. Once you're ready, go on with the fight.

- Always fight in "User Defined Camera" (3rd person view). This way you can fight and CC without any trouble (and running around the fight area to target the mobs) + you get to see the adds/pops coming and mezz them asap. The bonus of not running around to target the mobs, is that you can still fight while mezzing.

- Put your Primary/Secondary hand and you're bag of instrument in hotkeys bar. And always have you're bag open at any time. This way you can switch very fast.

- Have a very accessible key assigned to 1st person view and to the "User Defined Camera" to switch between those 2 views very fast.

To finish, I'd say that switching between this 2 views with the CC+Fight+Song (target trick) is the key to play your class well. It will rely on your skill and fight intelligence to be a good bard or a Maestro. And trust me, the difference between those 2 sort of bard is HUGE!

Feel free to ask if something isn't clear [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.].

PS : As I said, and as I already saw this many many times, I think a few bard won't agree with everything I said, but we can have a different play style and still be kind and comprehensive to each other [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.].

Bard is THE class IMO [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Savok]

I agree, how you play your bard is very conditional on the person behind it. Some like to pull, some cc, some tank etc - it is THE most versatile class out there.

Have fun!

[azeth]

ban plz

edit: not me, him ^ [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Bubbles]

After spending some time on Seafury Island in OOT and Rathe Mtns, I must say that:

no, no I have not seen any "pro" bards.

I have seen plenty of "Heads up! Bard Faggotry INC from your left" in group chat.. But no, no "pro" bards.

Would be nice to just hand every one of them out a gold medal in beating the slowest FPS in gaming history and be done with it, but no, instead we have twink bards. Honestly, if there's 9 seafuries on the island, per se, and it takes you 30 minutes to kill 3, most of which time you spend running to other camps /yelling for help, just quit while you're behind, PLEASE. You're basically griefing spawns, picking the slowest possible way to level, and, in your own inept way, are fighting server-wide inflation by keeping seafuries alive as long as humanly possible and depriving the 57 million mages, druids and necros the chance to cash in on plat over in OOT.

P.S. As long as we're on the OOT subject, if you're a full party consisting of mid-30s melee, you can toss all the throwing stars you want at a clops, it's gonna be dead by the time you convince it to twaddle back to your group. Once again, it ain't an XP spot, and I'm sorry you didnt think to bring a porting class in your PARTY OF SIX.... But Seafurys are one of the like 5 places for 44+ to solo and earn plat while surfing for porn. Your merry band of mid-thirties can pick from Mistmoore, SolA, SolB, GukA/B, Paw, Unrest, Rathe, Feerrot, CT, and too many other effing places to waste energy typing out. Use a little common sense. At the very least go grief the idiots who think the Oasis specs are the best XP spot ever, at least THEY have nearby options if they give up to your inteptitude, they can hop right over to Guk or SolB or Rathe... The high levels in OOT are basically stuck out there watching your 8 backpacks of throwing stars and arrows rain slow plinkity death upon their dreams of shiny things.

But yeah, the bards piss me off far, far more.

[Savok]

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

ban plz

edit: not me, him ^ [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Hmm..?

[azeth]

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

Hmm..?

wasnt you, the board mod removed a chat that was between yours and mine. Was a WoW ad bot.

[Tehwoot]

I am so excited to see this server, I have not played EQ in years and will most likely be rolling a Bard like I played in Kunark / Velious. I probably wont be much help though in regards to the class as to its been about 8 or so years since I have played EQ :-x

[Calamitous Oeuvre]

haah bubbles, get over yourself man.