Playing bard in group

[Wallicker]

Hahaha yea might as well just pull with eyeball, swap bw 3 instruments and melee all at same time Im so lazy why don’t I do this nonstop!

[Ashenden]

Please keep debating Bard and talking about all the things you do so I can learn to play it. So far I've just been running around fast with a fancy drum and shield to look like I am doing stuff.

Could you guys discuss Highsun next? I feel like it doesn't get enough love as a completely unique mechanic for Bards.

[Jimjam]

The most important thing while using highsun is to incorporate it into a social macro based around the Black Widows script used for deweaponising Bruce Banner.

[Wallicker]

Highsun is a fun one great for finding PHers and tracking named’s pathing routes if you combine it with bind sight. Also not a bad way to split mobs if you have a coth mage or a zoneline nearby, just Deftdance highsun the ones you don’t want in the pull then get cothed to clear aggro. Also highsun is super fun for fear kiting a mob if it starts to wander to far poof back to spawn. Want to interrupt something you can’t mez or fear say a CHing mob that your fighting right on its spawn? Man this song is fun.

I’m sure Jauna can school me on it’s real uses though.

[Legidias]

Highsun is also one of the strongest (if not completely the strongest) dispels in game if you're fighting something on top of its spawn and it has buffs on.

[Wallicker]

Aye great way to remove buffs/damage shields before bringing a mob back to your group during the daytime!

[Troxx]

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

Please keep debating Bard and talking about all the things you do so I can learn to play it. So far I've just been running around fast with a fancy drum and shield to look like I am doing stuff.

Could you guys discuss Highsun next? I feel like it doesn't get enough love as a completely unique mechanic for Bards.

Just spend some time looking through the songbook. Bards are unique in that even many of our low level songs are never outgrown. Some like the mez/charm/hastes just bump up the level of mobs affected or potency but many of them are completely unique.

The best bards I’ve known were the ones that found creative ways to use the tools available.

As an example; take the aoe 54 snare/slow strings song. I can promise you I’m not the first person to think of it, use the song that way, or do it ... but I had not seen it done before and neither did the people we were hunting with. The story goes a little like this. We were hunting KC lcy. A train was called from hands and I quickly managed to mem this song with the only goal of slowing the train down to let people escape. 3 out of 6 were on quick bio afk and I landed the song on the first mobs to hit camp. More trickled in as I packed me close. After 12 mobs were thus CC’d the afk folks got back and we laughed and decided to just kill them.

An idea was born and we did that for 1-2 hrs straight. The zone was mostly empty and the monk would just go grab 4-6 at a time and flop them on us, immediately heading out to get more. At times we got to 20+ in the CY with the melee just focus firing and the cleric/druid (no longer needing to heal) just pbaoe nuked. Eventually enough people showed up in zone that we had to dial back.

I’m no evil genius. I can promise others on p99 and classic had long since figured that out but it was a new concept to everyone in the zone that day. Wickedly fast xp and a good example how using a single song in an atypical way allows the bard class to powerfully CC in ways that no other class can pull off.

Highsun shenanigans are another good example.

Just look at each song and think outside the box. Many of even our low level songs are highly relevant at level 60.

[Zipity]

lol one beautiful morning KC was empty and there was only a ranger 2 mages and a cleric in the zone with my bard that was lvl 57 at the time.... mass pbaoe slaughter ensued ranger just pulled trains to me right at the entrance we were clearing captain,basement, Lcy,rcy, hands

[Wallicker]

Nice of y’all to share and have a puller do the hard part I can do the above solo naked with a drum and lute

[Wallicker]

Should have a naked swarm tournament tournament lolz do like Velks, DN, KC, TD raptors, OT outpost, HS north clear