Bard swarm kiting that kills other players

[doeda]

or they can just fix bard charm so we can go swarm money camps.......

[citizen1080]

I think the training occurs when the bard is far out ahead and makes a turn. The train does not follow his exact path. It will cut the corner. So if there is a group on the inside of the bards turn the mobs will path over them. However, like I said before, in OT there are no camps other than the walls, and its not real hard to dodge a giant train you can see coming for miles.

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[zanderklocke]

Originally Posted by citizen1080 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think the training occurs when the bard is far out ahead and makes a turn. The train does not follow his exact path. It will cut the corner. So if there is a group on the inside of the bards turn the mobs will path over them. However, like I said before, in OT there are no camps other than the walls, and its not real hard to dodge a giant train you can see coming for miles.

Still if the bard attacked/snared the mobs and didn't socially pull them (which I don't believe high level bards can do), shouldn't they not even bother people they path over?

[citizen1080]

Originally Posted by zanderklocke [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Still if the bard attacked/snared the mobs and didn't socially pull them (which I don't believe high level bards can do), shouldn't they not even bother people they path over?

They should not. I AoE kited in TD, OT, BW and CoM and I never killed anyone with one of my kites UNLESS, I died.

People who are claiming they died due to a kite either:

Tried to snipe mobs off the pack and got agro on multiple mobs (this will happen if bard is only prox aggroing the mobs)

Got below 20% hp and the whole pack headed for them.

Or the bard died.

[zanderklocke]

So basically, bards watch out for people and try to not train over them. People, don't kill mobs in the dead center of a zone if you think bards might level there.

If you are a bard and accidentally get someone killed, let them sit in your exp group for a pull.

[citizen1080]

Originally Posted by zanderklocke [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So basically, bards watch out for people and try to not train over them. People, don't kill mobs in the dead center of a zone if you bards might level there.

If you are a bard and accidentally get someone killed, let them sit in your exp group for a pull.

^---This

[Capi]

Originally Posted by zanderklocke [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So basically, bards watch out for people and try to not train over them. People, don't kill mobs in the dead center of a zone if you think bards might level there.

If you are a bard and accidentally get someone killed, let them sit in your exp group for a pull.

I've done this plenty of times for people I've inconvenienced. But when I get hate tells and people in shout/ooc/tells cursing me out in every type of obscenity possible...it makes me less likely to help that person out. I keep a clicker cleric logged in OT to fix mistakes and help the zone out. I've rescued corpses from the gorge and the outpost...but nobody cares about any of that stuff. It's just the "I had to travel 10 seconds to find a mob to kill, I'm going to find the nearest bard and shout and curse at them"

[SavageBeast15]

I personally find the bards who pull their swarms in DL directly over the top of KC multiple times, when asked not to the biggest problems. Just this week I watched 2-3 bards aggro too many spiders and have to zone, they didn't say a word, and their train they HAD to run over KC multiple times comes back and wipes a couple groups and soloers. THESE are the bards I will talk shit to, if you're trying your best to look out for people exping, go for your swarm, it's the ones who clearly don't give a shit that I'll call out

[khanable]

OT is bard territory

Go somewhere else

[Kraftwerk]

Originally Posted by khanable [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

OT is bard territory

Go somewhere else

SK -> OT -> BW

It's how bards do 19-57, get over it.

I heard there are dungeon zones with good exp modifiers in many zones throughout Norrath where people can group without Bard interference, can anyone confirm this? Like do there exist any other zones to exp in besides SK, OT and BW or are those three the pinnacle of group XP in this game?