New bard

[Mono-Tone]

Never played a bard before. Currently level 15 anyone can direct me to leveling guides? I know they can pull a shit ton of stuff, only played through kunark. name is mono

[jeffd]

gather up everything in EK, run in circles and slowly whittle the group own with your aoe dot

repeat in SK -> OT -> DL -> BW

[rusty81]

Google P99 wiki its a must have!!

[Lionfish Roundup]

faggot-tone

bard cliché name, get some originality

[myxomatosii]

Never played a bard before. Currently level 15 anyone can direct me to leveling guides? I know they can pull a shit ton of stuff, only played through kunark. name is mono

If you plan to go the swarm kite route, basically you can start at level 2 (if you're perfect) or wait til level 18 for the longer range AEDoT which makes learning a lot easier.

There are a few ways to do it but I'd recommend just figuring out whats easiest for you. If you wanna start out, go to a zone where you can pull a ton of green mobs and work on your technique for staying out of melee range while still landing your DoTs. When you begin it will seem like an infinitely fine line to walk, and its fairly thin, but its learnable if you have patience.

Here are two guides, I would also recommend logging onto blue99 and '/who all bard' and asking advice from various higher level bards for tips. I only recommend blue because they won't be anon and they'll likely be willing to talk, on red you can try ooc but its often unruly and you will get joke answers from people trying to be amusing, for the most part however they are helpful.

Cribanox AoE Guide (http://wiki.project1999.com/Cribanox_Bard_AoE_Kiting)

Hmotzart's Guide (http://wiki.project1999.com/Hmotzart%27s_Hmasterpiece_of_Hmass_AoE_Hmurder)

Also as said above, wiki is king.

[Mono-Tone]

i started kiting its hard died alot but got to level 15 not too bad. Both guides were great btw.

[Mono-Tone]

Are there any leveling/new guilds one should join in this server?

[Kergan]

Knights Who Say Ni recently started up on Red I would recommend you look in their direction.

[myxomatosii]

Are there any leveling/new guilds one should join in this server?

My guild has just begun its transition into a trans-server guild or a 'purple guild' that plays both servers. '/who all knights' will find us, you can ask anyone for details and someone will get an invite to you. Given we all just started, things are moving slowly but we'll get to you and develop quicker response times as we grow and level.

[aborted]

New bard!http://replygif.net/i/163.gif

[Mono-Tone]

Contacted some Ni guys but no officers on. Almost level 32 now.. ate some dirt naps to mobs. Oh yea and people snaring me mid kite lol! This is alot of fun though!

[Mono-Tone]

Level 58 now!

[Millburn]

Well that escalated quickly...

[Greegon]

millburn your signature is just,

amazing

whatever that is i want to eat it

[Nads]

Level 58 now!

Jesus fucking christ man are you human?

[Millburn]

millburn your signature is just,

amazing

whatever that is i want to eat it

Chicken in a can baby. All you need is some boiling water and enough willpower not to eat it cold.

[Greegon]

what like a cornish game hen? it looks so tiny lol

[Nads]

My zealot with legit 08 valk and bugged p ebotd always shit on fury druids

Good Zealots didn't use 08 valk.

I probally put 500 bucks into diablo 2 over the years (6-7) but made a bit of a profit when I cashed out in like 2009. That game had so much replay value and held my interest for so long with the updates and ladder resets. Pretty much the game of the decade.

^^^D2 was simply unstoppable, but, to me, the real magic died with the 1.10 patch.

RIP DruidPK, Grove.

[Nads]

30% IAS and 30% FHR is way better when vs other melee

http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/521/valk08.jpg


While CoA was better vs casters and hybrids due to the resists and DR.

http://ss.d2img.com/crownofagesperf.jpg

Crown of Ages is the go-to helm for a zealot against basically all opponents. Special cases can be made for sick eth, self repairing, fools mod rare helms with sockets against conc barbs and other Zealots with insane defense, but then you have to make up DR elsewhere-using a perfect eth upped shaftstop or a Stormshield perhaps.

In any other situation you can't beat the defense, stats and gear flexibility provided by using a Crown of Ages. Defense especially when facing a good Fury wolf that pushes 20k+ attack rating EASY. Gotta have everything going for you defensively to avoid their attacks.

[Nads]

get jobs nerds

I wish I COULD go back a decade when things were simpler and play D2, but, last semester of college calls haha.

[runlvlzero]

Ames calls me weird, he's still playin diablo II.

[Nads]

Ames calls me weird, he's still playin diablo II.

But many people here still play EQ?

[runlvlzero]

But many people here still play EQ?

Obviously if your not playing EQ and your here your insane lol.

[Shelly_Red99]

hey

EDIT : You are level 58 now lol dang nvm

[Rust1d?]

I am playing Diablo 2 still till teams comes out.

[Rust1d?]

Contacted some Ni guys but no officers on. Almost level 32 now.. ate some dirt naps to mobs. Oh yea and people snaring me mid kite lol! This is alot of fun though!

Where are you kiting and binding?