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Originally Posted by Ryujee
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mind you, i have bought or looted gear way beyond my level, dark blues still kick my butt in a stand up fight...instruments or melee weapons. meanwhile, other classes that are readily welcome into groups can also solo more efficiently than a bard.
coincidentally, every bard i have talked to tells me the same thing, "once you can charm kite that all changes". i am sure that is entirely true, but we're talking lvl 28 before that is even a possibility, i have trudged through 18 levels in about the same time it took me to level my monk AND warrior to the same level...combined.
i know, i know...am crying like got sand in my butt-crack, but i honestly feel that removing our ability to solo while keeping the xp penalty is just plain wrong. bear in mind, all it takes is 1 caster or a mob with a stun effect (lava basilisks in LS for example) to turn a swarm kite into suicide.
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The first part shouldn't be true in most cases (unless you're level 50 battling a level 49 or something ridiculous like that). Ur doin' it wrong.
The second part is curiously also not true. You can't really charm kite that well as a Bard, it's more of an effective CC spell than it is an efficient soloing technique.
The third part is nonsense. Obviously you don't aoe kite casters or mobs with a stun proc or whatever. You don't aoe kite ghouls because they will root you if you screw up. By you can still aoe kite large numbers of other mobs - there's a post on the forums where someone shows a screenshot of his Bard after aoe kiting over 20 mobs. I spent several levels aoe kiting the spectres tower in oasis - how many classes do you know that can take all four of those spectres at once? Only a few. Go search Cribanox's post about aoe kiting on project 1999, and he will tell you how to do it without getting hit. Maybe it's not the same as it used to be on live, but it's fun and challenging and I'm not complaining.
~Bard of 50 seasons~