Blam Stick on Bard

[Valakut]

skip the blam stick and ignore 99% of this thread since its mostly zerg guild raiders who hear dps and think 30 monks with triple attack with 0 of those monks actually having beads

if you want to farm on a bard play it like a shaman and you will do fine. will you out dps a rogue on adderal? NO. can you survive some crazy mobs that summon and drop good loot after long fights? YES

[Toxigen]

you only melee on bard if you have epic, and if you're swinging before epic you're a shit bard

hope this helps

[Snaggles]

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

you only melee on bard if you have epic, and if you're swinging before epic you're a shit bard

hope this helps

Not necessarily true. Haste, snare, and mana songs (plus some others) aren’t modded by instruments. Depending on the group mix if someone wants to melee and is quick to pivot to other needs/songs that’s fine (IMHO).

For me on my 57 bard at least I won’t mess with weapons and likely won’t get a proc weapon that worth swinging. I’d rather just click and stay aware of the scene at hand. A swap from drum to horn to stringed is very quick. Putting weapons away is a pain. Maybe I’m just paranoid at being a sucky bard, lol.

Main issue with a blam is on low AC stuff it’s about on par with a SBoZ. On high ac it’s worse. You can prob farm plat for one easier than farming PoM for a statless weapon.

[Ennewi]

Also, Melodious Truncheons are worth equipping versus highly resistant mobs that gate/cheal start get lower in health. Orbs of Tishan are another exception.

[Ennewi]

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

Also, Melodious Truncheons are worth equipping versus highly resistant mobs that gate/cheal, just have to swap in early enough before the mobs start getting lower in health. Orbs of Tishan are another exception. PITA swapping so much but better than having to camp out aggro, zone/evac, or wipe and cr.

Fixed, thanks inability to edit after x amount of time.

[Encroaching Death]

Bards do better melee DPS than Monks

[Vivitron]

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

Not necessarily true. Haste, snare, and mana songs (plus some others) aren’t modded by instruments. Depending on the group mix if someone wants to melee and is quick to pivot to other needs/songs that’s fine (IMHO).

That's how I saw it levelling up, especially with a lute of the howler. If your twist is, say, slow/haste/regen/dot it's optimal to melee and tap in the lute for regen and dot. Of course pulling/cc take priority, but sometimes the group needs to kill stuff before you can bring more, and you can leave auto attack on while sending out eyeballs, too.

[Snaggles]

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

That's how I saw it levelling up, especially with a lute of the howler. If your twist is, say, slow/haste/regen/dot it's optimal to melee and tap in the lute for regen and dot. Of course pulling/cc take priority, but sometimes the group needs to kill stuff before you can bring more, and you can leave auto attack on while sending out eyeballs, too.

Yea the haste plus the attack (str and raw attack) is pretty crazy. Plus it gives you more twist options.

So long as the bard is playing songs and is awake to play CC when stuff falls apart they are doing an amazing job, imho.

[Croco]

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

Bards do better melee DPS than Monks

In your dreams.

[Crede]

Bard with epic using all 3 chant dots and meleeing twisting in the 60 slow and ds as well is probably putting out like 100 dps?