[Arteker]

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

Even in groups, bard melee is low priority. You would be surprised how many people asked me to melee when the casters are lom and the puller keeps chain pulling.

CC > haste/buffs/mana regen > melee.

People need to realize that bards have no double attack and a 210 cap on dual wield. This means you have less dual wield checks than paladins/SKs, who have a double attack cap of 235. Mathematically, this means pally/SK melee damage is superior with equal gear/level/buffs, because they will double attack more than you will dual wield.

They look like they can do decent melee damage because they're dual wielding, so people think they must be kind of a rogue/enchanter hybrid who can dps and mez, but the reality is that bard melee damage is laughable. I play one, i see my combat log. Even with Aanya's Quickening (64% haste), fully shaman buffed + my stat songs all stacked, it's simply pathetic when i look at the monk/rogue/warrior/ranger having 8 hits every time i hit twice. And that's when i'm not missing 6 times in a row.

I do more damage with my 3 dot songs (163/tick at the moment) than meleeing and my weapons are decent. Guardians Mace and Harmonic Dagger.

And yet, when the cleric/chanter/wiz are lom because of a bad pull, i'm getting told to melee because "mobs don't die fast enough". The amount of misinformation about bards it's just incredible.

And yet, still today 16 years later, there are still people who go "nah, bard melee isn't that bad." No, it's really fucking bad.

unless the bard has epic, his instruments mod on his songs are more valuable than small dmg