Bard question

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I am just looking to speed through the lower content really, otherwise I'll probably end up grouping. Done the low end stuff enough times I wont miss it. Or use the aoe method to get through hell levels. I want to be able to say that I can do it all though heh.

[Tann]

This video is a good tutorial on one way to do a kite, it was in another bard kiting thread somewhere.

Only thing I do differently, currently 21 doing hounds/griffawns in EK, is that I use selo's w/out a drum. This may or may not work well if you pull stuff with different run speeds (like some cats or rhino's in OT) or later in levels but for now it seems to work just fine.

It only took me a couple tries to get the cutting into the kite strafing thing as explained in the video but it works really well for landing the lv2 dot.

IMHO jboots are a waste of money, people keep talking about missed notes and what not which I think is rubbish. Just play selo's between each dot, they last for 18 seconds each so its not like you can kill faster by spamming them.

ie. selo - dot(18) - selo - dot(2) - selo, etc etc. mix in a hymn of restoration if you get tagged and survive.

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I want to thank everyone for their input it's been really great to see everyone jump in. I am geared up and at level 11 right now and have decided against jboots. I think what I might try it teaming up with Druids or Other casters in areas like Sro for orcs or nk/ek for some fun duo with backups for in case stuff goes wrong while I learn.

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when grouping are there certain stats to focus and what is a good stats range for them to be in regars to str/sta/cha etc?

[Colgate]

hp and resists will be the most important stats

dex is useful if you have proccing weapons, but you probably don't want to be pulling aggro with a proc in a group

[zanderklocke]

I found dex and cha to be most helpful when leveling up and lulling/pulling for a group and preventing missed notes. You'll do a lot of pulling as a bard. I didn't find resists/hp to be that important until I was in high 50s pulling in Seb. At that point, cha didn't matter so much for getting successful lulls.

Str is great for holding stuff, but other than that, not too important for a bard since our melee dps is lousy anyway.

[Colgate]

bards arent really a stat dependent class

should just focus on getting the best instruments and weapons that you can, along with items like jboots, pegasus feather cloak

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I'll have to get a gear list together of what I have and see if there are pieces I should replace.

In order to get jboots I would have to sell off my Breath of Harmony but I could grab a Sionache's Partisan. But if I'm aoe kiting weapons aren't really that needed and I can get a BoH once I can proc it at 50 where I should have earned the plat needed by then. Also as far as instruments rocking a mm drum and lute of the gypsy princess and the basic brass horn.

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Here is a list of my gear to date:

Opalline Earrings x2
Golden Black Pearl Choker
Platinum Star Ruby Veil
Skull-Shaped Barbute
Platinum Fire Wedding Ring x 2
Sebilite Scale Bracer x 2
Sebilite Scale Vambraces
Iksar Scaled Gloves
Tattered Mantle
Lambent Breastplate
White Wolf-Hide Cloak
Sludged Girdle
Sebilite Scale Leggings
Lambent Boots

Mistmoore Battle Drums
Lute of the Gypsy Princess
Horn
Breath of Harmony
Sionache's Partisan

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For Strafe kiting do the mobs need to be in front of your with the lvl 2 song? just got nailed by some orcs because my dot would not land while I was strafing for some reason.