Bard AoE kiting How-to & Screenshots

Seaweedpimp · #1 03-15-2011, 02:44 PM

True, But who hasnt seen this on live? Im actually appauled two level 50's dont know what a color skew looks like. That is all.

Messianic · #2 03-15-2011, 04:47 PM

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True, But who hasnt seen this on live? Im actually appauled two level 50's dont know what a color skew looks like. That is all.

I'm kind of surprised, too - i can't make out the elemental in the middle, I just know what color skew/flux looks like.

That's a mighty tasty way to PL AoE classes [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Harmonium · #3 07-24-2012, 11:07 PM

My bards in his mid 40's now and I'm starting to consider places outside OT for drawing circles with my bard. After about an hour of scanning this thread I have come up with a few options..

Dreadlands, CoM, Spirocs.

Dreadlands seems doable, but will have to be careful with mob selection. I'm assuming chickens and dogs are the main diet here.

CoM doesn't sound fun at all. Not really going to even try this.

Spirocs might be okay, assuming you'll twist levi+selo+chant for pulls in tree house. Although I have an inkling that my bard will end up face first in a tree and dead before my twitch reaction to rectify it.

Would be awesome if anyone wants to offer some input on post OT locations [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

guineapig · #4 03-15-2011, 04:59 PM

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True, But who hasnt seen this on live? Im actually appauled two level 50's dont know what a color skew looks like. That is all.

To be honest my spell effects are off most of the time so I probably haven't sen those particles since 2005. But you are right, the color line does look just like that. I assumed it was also a particle effect used in some bard song (again, particles turned off for my bard).

Anyway, I just looked and saw lots of dogs, sparkles and a spider with a bard in the middle. There was nothing in the chat window to indicate what else was going on besides bard damage. I just now noticed the elemental you were referring to. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Lastly, I have too many of my own characters to level up to bother and learn every single powerleveling trick for every class combination. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] In any case it's a good looking kite!

Lazortag · #5 03-15-2011, 05:34 PM

Wow. I can't believe I didn't take a screenshot of my epic raptor kite on Beta. It was really hard to execute and took forever. It would have been perfect for this thread.

DevonG · #6 03-17-2011, 07:39 PM

Seafuries were put on this norrath for bards, I swear.
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Lazortag · #7 03-18-2011, 01:27 AM

Everything mcbard said is totally true. It definitely gets very slow at around 35 though, in my experience.

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Seafuries were put on this norrath for bards, I swear.
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This... isn't an example of aoe kiting.

DevonG · #8 03-18-2011, 01:45 AM

Forgive me,
Thought we were just talking about how amazing bards are by this page.

Lazortag · #9 03-18-2011, 01:52 AM

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Forgive me,
Thought we were just talking about how amazing bards are by this page.

this is very forgivable.

Mcbard · #10 03-17-2011, 08:34 PM

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To be honest my spell effects are off most of the time so I probably haven't sen those particles since 2005. But you are right, the color line does look just like that. I assumed it was also a particle effect used in some bard song (again, particles turned off for my bard).

Yup I don't play with spell effects on anymore either. I never did on live, but I did here with about 8% opacity until they made that god awful manasong effect with the last update. I've went back to having them all off.

Bard pling a bard is awesome.. ae slow + DS + regen when needed and grab entire zones and just hold agro with slow while the other bard dots them to death. Never any down time and you can powerlevel well into the 30s in SolA, but by then it starts to get a little tricky as anymore than like 6 mobs at a time might cause you some problems! Also if the class you're powerleveling has a PBAE you can get a bunch of mobs with similar hp, almost kill them, make sure the low level tags with AE, dot when they are low and zone. Mass exp for only 1 AE's worth of mana for the powerlevelee. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]