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For those of you advocating putting weapons away, just reroll into an enchanter and get out of the bard class because at least then you wont be corrupting the next generation of bards with terrible terrible terrible advice and trains of thought.
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Trains.
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Lol at you think weapons(pre-epic) > instruments still. I’d love to see you duo with any class so that your deficiencies aren’t covered up by the rest of the group. Try once with weapons then try again with instruments then get back to me.
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Have you ever parsed bard melee dps?
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With a standard 3 song twist (cantata/nivs/mcvaxius)
Pre-epic Weapons (12-15 melee dps) 19 hp per tick to all 12 mana per tick to all 31 str 22 attack 8 dmg shield + a 4th song of your choice 覧覧覧覧 覧覧覧覧 With instruments: 46hp a tick to all 12 mana a tick to all 68 str 44 attack 17 dmg shield Plus whatever 4th song you want to include 10% stacking haste (requires instrument), occlusion debuff on standby (requires instrument), mezzes that last an extra tick (bonus with wind use). Many options for the 4th slot either require instrument (stacking haste + attack 60) or likewise get big buffs. 覧覧覧覧覧 覧覧覧覧覧 I don稚 think any sane group would opt for the bard to swing his or her weapons for that leet 12-15 melee dps. The alternative more than doubles the real power a bard brings to the group. 27 extra regen? That痴 nearly 2 extra fungis to everyone which keeps things rolling smoothly. If the group did need the bard to dps ... well with instruments you can stack 50 dps easily with chants; up to 74 if you toss in the pbaoe dots. Bards are mobile armored casters with lots of utility and buffing potential. Bards are not melee dps. Once epic is in the equation everything changes, but even then it痴 not the bards melee dps that matters; it痴 the proc on epic paired with a 180% mod to all songs sung seamlessly (vs 210-260% mod with a real instrument). Even then, the talented epic bard I grouped with over the weekend in DN was barely breaking 20dps most fights.
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A bard not equipping instruments is worse than a knight not equipping their shield while tanking. It's only done well if any of the classes have their epic or something very epic-like to compensate for the loss.
Looking through old screenshots, all of the bards in groups 35+ are swapping between different instruments and occasionally adding in a nivs sword click. My bard alt only has crap ratio claw weapons bagged for fashionquest and one equally bad dmg/dly weapon with tash proc. Spare platinum has gone a lot farther when spent on upgrading instruments so group benefits accumulate faster, and then armor/hp gear for survivability. With a few exceptions, weapons on a bard are just hood ornaments/vanity plates; instruments enhance what's under the hood. | ||
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Shield of song is also affected lute... with regen + shield of song + rondo + slow you will anger the cleric in your group
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PSA
Bards please stop charming unless you have an invis ring. It's annoying as fuck to wait 20 Seconds to attack and it's just not worth it. It also means your group can't debuff it while its waiting. Just mez for the love of god. | ||
Last edited by branamil; 03-17-2019 at 06:49 PM..
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