Bard AoE kiting How-to & Screenshots

[somnia]

The amount of damage your DoTs do will increase by level but for clarity let's consider a simple hypothetical situation:

Denon's Disruptive Discord
No Instrument: 14hp/tick or 42hp/application
Regular Horn: 28hp/tick (20 Modifier = No Instrument x 2) or 84hp/application and 100% increase from no instrument
Horn of War: 32hp/tick (23 Modifier = No Instrument x 2.3) or 96hp/application and 14.3% increase from regular horn

If a mob has 1500hp:
No Instrument: min 36 applications = 10.8 minutes to kill
Regular Horn: min 18 applications = 5.4 minutes to kill = 100% increase in speed over No Instrument
Horn of War: min 16 applications = 4.8 minutes to kill = 12.5% increase in speed over Regular Horn

In other words, you'll save on average 36 seconds per kite in an ideal world where every mob you're killing has 1500hp and doesn't resist.

Depending on how many mobs you kite at once, you're looking at like 3-5 (4 avg) kites per level starting at level 18. So 32 levels to 50.

Time Spent 18-50
No Instrument 18-50: (4 kites/level) * (32 levels) * (10.8 minutes/kite) = 1382.4 minutes ~= 23 hours
Regular Horn 18-50: (4 kites/level) * (32 levels) * (5.4 minutes/kite) = 691.2 minutes ~= 11.5 hours
Horn of War 18-50: (4 kites/level) * (32 levels) * (4.8 minutes/kite) = 614.4 minutes ~= 10.25 hours

There are obviously fixed costs such as the time it takes you to gather mobs, risk of dying each application, and so forth, but this should give an idealized idea of the benefit of the horn. In this example, you'll save about 1 hour and 15 minutes off your total /played by having a Horn of War.

How much is an hour of your time worth to you?

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