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Originally Posted by fahlen
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Just be courteous man. Stay away from areas that people are clearly set up at or pulling from. And tell them they're welcome to pull from your swarm if mobs are scarce.
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This. The only way you're NOT going to bring down the hate upon yourself is if you go out of your way not to be a dick. And even then, people will still just assume shit. I always pulled micro-pulls, never more than like 15 or 20 mobs at a time, from the dumbest BFE parts of zones where no one went, and I still got hate tells because people are sheep who see other people hate bards and think that's what everyone does. Hell, even at 60, every single time I ever go into OT or FV without pulling a single mob, 100% of the time I always get a tell from someone shrieking about how I'm taking all the mobs and I need to get out and let other people exp. Then when I tell them I'm not even pulling anything, they get all paranoid and accuse me of lying.
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Originally Posted by Rattle Squirrell
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When you say 50-55 burning woods. Is 55 really where it stops ?
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It gets to be more trouble than it's worth. After 55 most of the stuff in BW is going to be green, and since the mobs take forever to die and have huge hit boxes, there are tons of casters everywhere that you have to deal with, it's just a huge hassle for a ton of green mobs. You can still do it all the way to 60, but eventually it gets to a point where you may as well just be grouping. And well before that point even comes, you have learned to hate AE kiting with every ounce of your being, because you can only spend so many hours running in circles clicking a macro and periodically lagging and dying instantly before it begins to take a toll on your mind.
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Originally Posted by Daldaen
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There are very few zones bards can AE kite due to mob Runspeed, amount of open space, size of mob hitboxs a and prevalence of casters.
18-24 East Karana
18-25 Overthere
25-30 South Karana
30-50 Overthere
50-55 Burning Woods
99% of all complaining occurs in Overthere. The thing those people neglect to mention is a the Sarnak casters, tigers and rhinos the bards don't pull. Plus... OT is really a kiter zone if you're grouping there, you should try another zone.
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Add FoB, FV, Nro, NK, and Oasis in there as less-common but entirely possible bard kiting areas. If you're really good you can also do it in WW, but I gave up on that pretty quickly myself because there are no open spaces and it was too much hassle to dodge trees. Also I kept getting lost. You'll have to really watch yourself in FoB, Nro, and Oasis, because there are so many low-level toons grinding there, and especially in Nro there are so few mobs. People will be very easily upset.