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Originally Posted by Ashenden
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Please keep debating Bard and talking about all the things you do so I can learn to play it. So far I've just been running around fast with a fancy drum and shield to look like I am doing stuff.
Could you guys discuss Highsun next? I feel like it doesn't get enough love as a completely unique mechanic for Bards.
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Just spend some time looking through the songbook. Bards are unique in that even many of our low level songs are never outgrown. Some like the mez/charm/hastes just bump up the level of mobs affected or potency but many of them are completely unique.
The best bards I’ve known were the ones that found creative ways to use the tools available.
As an example; take the aoe 54 snare/slow strings song. I can promise you I’m not the first person to think of it, use the song that way, or do it ... but I had not seen it done before and neither did the people we were hunting with. The story goes a little like this. We were hunting KC lcy. A train was called from hands and I quickly managed to mem this song with the only goal of slowing the train down to let people escape. 3 out of 6 were on quick bio afk and I landed the song on the first mobs to hit camp. More trickled in as I packed me close. After 12 mobs were thus CC’d the afk folks got back and we laughed and decided to just kill them.
An idea was born and we did that for 1-2 hrs straight. The zone was mostly empty and the monk would just go grab 4-6 at a time and flop them on us, immediately heading out to get more. At times we got to 20+ in the CY with the melee just focus firing and the cleric/druid (no longer needing to heal) just pbaoe nuked. Eventually enough people showed up in zone that we had to dial back.
I’m no evil genius. I can promise others on p99 and classic had long since figured that out but it was a new concept to everyone in the zone that day. Wickedly fast xp and a good example how using a single song in an atypical way allows the bard class to powerfully CC in ways that no other class can pull off.
Highsun shenanigans are another good example.
Just look at each song and think outside the box. Many of even our low level songs are highly relevant at level 60.