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Originally Posted by Jete
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Cha if you wanna charm / mez better... but honestly I don't think cha affects mez but that's my opinion.
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I've noticed a strong difference in the number of resists on mez with different levels of charisma, mostly only for higher level mobs though. From personal experience buffing my own cha up to 160ish with cha gear made mezzing a bit easier in camps higher level than my bard, and with a cha buff on top of that putting me near 200 it became laughably easy. I was CCing and pulling lord in lguk at 37-38. Cha also has a HUGE effect on pulling, if a lull resists there is a secondary check done to see if the mob will aggro and this check is Cha based. Got 17 resists in a row trying to break lord room in lguk with 200+ cha and not one aggro whereas if you were say below 100 you'd aggro almost every resist.
As to the rest of the comments here, agree with most of them. Str is negligible and without double attack your melee is a dot at best, if you want to do damage with melee and I use the term "damage" loosely you'd want to be proccing to do it...but this presents aggro issues and is only good when you have a tank who can hold off of you, or are yourself bard tanking (which I did for the vast majority of my 40s due to lack of tanks...have even tanked raids though can't stand up to incredibly high damage mobs and we lack the efficiency of real tank CH chain healing)
As to STA...I disagree on this a little bit...bard hp to sta gain is pitiful, I'm trying to remember the conversion rate from in game, but at 48 it's not that much from personal experience. I am however, in no way stating that you should ignore sta...I put points into it myself at character creation and it's saved me a few times with that little bit. For the most part though you should either be capable of avoiding damage or it'll be so much damage the pittance you get from sta will likely not save you...but it can and it is to be considered. I have purpled about 5 times where I would have died without those bonus sta points.
Dex is helpful, reduces number of missed notes and increases amount you will proc. The exact effect on missed notes I've not noticed, proccing can be good or bad, depends on how you want to play and what your role is at the time. Many will argue against proccing weapons, and on raids you mostly have an instrument out anyway...unless fighting trash or for some godforsaken reason are tanking, but if you have a good tank proccing weapons shouldn't be an issue unless you picked bad ones.
My 2 copper on the matter.
*edit* And one more thing to note, on raids you will likely never mez either as the current bard mez caps out at lvl 46 mobs. May occasionally charm something for a quick CC, but this is not normal.