Uh... both chant dots are classic, do like 30 base damage (multiplied by instrument) and debuff resists. Two chants for like 50ish damage/tick each? That's considerable damage when you can do nothing about it. You can absolutely run around chanting people to death while they have no way to touch you. Assuming you're outdoors (why discuss indoors PvP for a bard?) you can simply run at maximum range, pop into range for three seconds to apply a dot, and pop back out. It's so easy with selos. Chants have the same range as spells and there's no way someone will get off a 6+ second nuke or dot off when you can move like 100ft per second and spells have a range of 200ft. Bards are so completely safe outdoors that the best their opponent can hope for is to gate away. Resist songs make them nearly impossible to cast on, and if you do land a root, they'll just dispel it right away. If you somehow hurt them, they'll run off and regen or click an invigorate bp for a minute and come back at full hp. Chants get resisted a lot, but since you can keep trying every three seconds at no cost, they will land and they come with a resist debuff. If you're a caster and your resists are kinda low, the bard could even stand there and melee you while just singing mez and resist songs.
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10-09-2011, 07:40 AM
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