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Originally Posted by tmoneynegro
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Bard: I don't remember any of their spells landing on me classic through Velious. There weren't many bards on EQ live in general though. One thing they can do is dispel all your buffs, use a tash procing weapon, then use occlusion of sound unresistable MR/FR/CR debuff which would be something like 60-70 MR debuff if the server uses Sullon Zek 50% debuff bonus. With that much MR debuffed, you can probably land snare and dot on even well geared melees. If you combine that with a Malo from a shaman or mage, someone would be really screwed. So for group PvP, besides just being a speed bot, they have some annoying tricks. If you're solo, you probably won't kill anyone as a bard and mostly just wander around annoying people, nobody will kill you either though probably.
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Good god was it hard to get my orb of tishan to proc in pvp. I think I managed it maybe once, though after playing with it for a while I stopped trying. In 1v1 pvp the loss of melee dps was not at all worth the chance to proc. OoS, though, was of course very useful.
You clearly never played a good bard, they are
easily one of the better pvp classes and I think you'll see that on Red99, if the bard population on Blue99 is any indication. The dots would land fairly easily, though they were so slow. 1v1 their main way to do damage is melee, and it works particularly well against casters. My strat against robes and priests was pretty simple.. debuff, debuff, debuff with some Brusco's thrown in during melee, then chain cast Brusco's (chance to interrupt spells) until they die or at best get a gate off. While keeping selo's on when needed.
Against melee classes, if you really wanted to you could run around with selo's and keep them doted, but I always found it to be so boring. Hehe, my favorite 1v1 pvp match was against a rogue. I was a big fan of jousting. I'd always throw my epic into mainhand (woo 16 damage! hardcore!) and go to town. Selo's is a HUGE advantage when jousting, often times I could get hits in and be gone before the enemy could get back at me. And all the while I'd be twisting regen, a dot or two, and melee stuffs. I fucked that rogue up something fierce.
Playing a bard in pvp (and pve, really) requires lots of quickly swapping weapons for instruments and back, while keeping your attention on what's really going on. Takes a few levels of practice, but once you've got it you've got it. Bards are of course amazing in group pvp as well. Selo's, resists and oos alone make you powerful hehe.
Oh and one of the bard ancient songs at 60 was an unresistable (on players) mez :O