Trying to level a bard to 60 solo without swarming. What twink gear am I missing?

[Diabolic2442]

My setup currently includes: Seahorse belt for haste, Fungi, Swiftblade of Zek & Blade of Carnage. I also bought a Lute of the Howler for the 40% haste buff. Most slots are also filled with big twink items. Is there a clicky or twink item I may not be thinking of?

[Ripqozko]

Get store bought instruments, sell everything else and be naked, learn to kite. Hope that helped .

[Tunabros]

get a drums of the beast

[busted]

Singing steel BP is pretty L33t for heals running around (and in fights)

[Sizar]

Singing steel BP is pretty L33t for heals running around (and in fights)

This, its pretty underrated

[Keebz]

Are you also avoiding charming? If not get a Gobling Gazughi Ring. Maybe obvious, but I also suggest JBoots and Peggy cloak even for bards.

[jolanar]

Lots of charisma for lulling to get singles.

Sing steel helm for the eye of zomm clicky.

Good /stopsong keybinds.

[nostalgiaquest]

the fastest xp soloing a bard outside of swarming is charming. Since charm doesn't build agro, you can ping-pong charm mobs and they'll beat each other down. Charm mob 1, attack mob 2. When charm breaks on 1, charm 2 and attack 1. Repeat the process. Toss in some dots to speed it up, and use snares/fears as necessary to balance the damage between the two.

Or you can fear kite with snare. Maybe grab a rogue or necro to speed that up. But it's incredibly boring and monotonous.

Fungi face tanking will take you a decent way, but that ends pretty abruptly. Without double attack it doesn't really matter how much haste or weapons you have, your dps is still gonna be shit.

If you can afford it, get all the main hand instruments. trying to juggle instruments when you have a mix of main hand and offhand is a royal bitch.

[Sizar]

Is the 40% haste from werewolf illusion a spell effect? so playing a bard haste song on top does not stack correct?

[Ennewi]

Get store bought instruments, sell everything else and be naked, learn to kite. Hope that helped .

OP wasn't asking for RL advice.

[jolanar]

Fungi face tanking will take you a decent way, but that ends pretty abruptly. Without double attack it doesn't really matter how much haste or weapons you have, your dps is still gonna be shit.

Low weapon skillcaps and behind the scene damage tables are the bigger reason why bard melee isn't great. 40% spell haste and the vast song library go a long way for making up the difference in dps of double attack. Near complete lack of downtime often makes up for lower dps though. I understand not wanting to swarm, but hopefully OP doesn't discount using charm and fear kiting.


Is the 40% haste from werewolf illusion a spell effect? so playing a bard haste song on top does not stack correct?

Correct, but it frees up a song. When you are meleeing and taking damage, you can only reliably get 3 songs going without interruption between stuns, interrupts and fails.