Bard Question

Lazortag · #1 11-10-2011, 11:10 AM

Let me educate all of you.

Sionachie's dreams isn't classic, nor is it available anywhere on p99 (in fact I don't even think the spell file supports it). Crission's Pixie Strike had a level cap of 45 well after the classic period. Prior to the level caps being put in, Bard mezzes (Kelin's Lucid Lullaby, Crission's Pixie Strike, Song of Twilight) had no level cap, although mobs level 55 and over were immune to stuns and mezzes, so they had a functional level cap of 55 in PvE. In PvP, you could still land mezzes on level 56+ players (although it probably didn't happen often due to resists). On p99 there's a bug where you can't mez level 55+ players (except with Rapture). Additionally, both KLL and CPS land too much here - on Live, KLL had resist rates above 75% at higher levels, while CPS resisted in PvE on Live more than it does on p99 (just look at the castersrealm archives for this song, or the one for everlore to be thoroughly convinced of this).

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Sionache's Dreams is a luclin spell, so no, you will never be mezzing at Chardok Royals on these servers. SUCKS.

You can mez some mobs at Chardok Royals with Crission's Pixie Strike but even if you couldn't, there's still Song of Twilight (once it loses its night-only restriction). It just depends if they're under level 56 or not. For mobs level 56 and higher you can only mez them with Melodious Truncheon (good luck with that).

Prova · #2 11-10-2011, 11:32 AM

To double-check: the two lower bard mezzes will cap at 55 for PvE here?

Charm agro is still not functioning correctly, right?

Lazortag · #3 11-10-2011, 11:49 AM

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To double-check: the two lower bard mezzes will cap at 55 for PvE here?

Charm agro is still not functioning correctly, right?

If by "charm aggro" you're referring to swarm/charm kiting not working then no, it's not functioning currently. I still don't know the reasoning behind not fixing this, if it's intentional or not, etc.

Yes, the two lower mezzes will cap at 55, but I expect a nerf to Kelin's Lucid Lullaby in the near future.

Prova · #4 11-10-2011, 06:38 PM

I made a post about charm in the PvP bugs forum. The versatility of a bard in dungeon PvE is severely limited by the bug and the fix doesn't seem very difficult.