Bard Kiting - 101

[copmagic]

FINALLY am able to do it with the level 2 song, since I don't have the 18 song yet. That was a very rewarding moment killing my first pack of 10 mobs. Anyways, question, when I'm using right click to drive, I can only turn to a maximum of 180 degrees on either side, and then I have to let go and reclick if I want to turn further, this obviously makes it a little unsafe at those moments, is there any setting to to disable the 180 degree limit on mouse look?

[mefdinkins]

Any advice for jboot users?

[ECDubz]

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

Any advice for jboot users?

Just need to make tighter circles if you use selo or jboots

[falkun]

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

Just need to make tighter circles if you use selo or jboots

Is this for strafers or tap-turners? Its been 4-5 years now since I was leveling, but as a tap-turner I thought the circles got tighter as my speed increased. The circles eventually got so tight I had to stop equipping a drum and by ~40 I was even keeping myself slightly encumbered to slow Selos down, otherwise the circles were too tight for me to manage well enough to net positive experience.

My thoughts would be that while Selos gets faster every level, Jboots are a modifier, unaffected by levels. This should make the timing much easier to learn/manage, as it will not change between kites/levels. Once you've learned your groove, jboots allows you to keep it for all levels. The only thing to learn will be your swarm's hitboxes as you move from one type of mob or zone to the next.

[Heximorph]

I'm new to swarm kiting and have noticed that when the zone population is high that my swarm can hit me before I see them or before my song hits them. Has anyone else seen this?

I'm lvl 24 kiting skellies in LOIO.

[DarthMartigan]

jboots would work, but borderline too slow i think. I always had lute selos up to 59 when tapping. I also would regularly be way encumbered 45+ and wouldn't bother deleting coin to fix it, because i liked the slightly slower speed for circles.

[SewingMachine]

Question, Its there a better way to pull then what i am doing.

Right now I am stopping for a second and casting one of my DD spells and continuing on. It takes a long time, i was wondering if there is a click item i can get aggro with i am lvl 18. Other then that i was going to go to OT and try my luck there, Since i got my new AOE spell

[Kileras]

shurikens

[falkun]

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

Question, Its there a better way to pull then what i am doing.

I always just ran up and smacked it with melee then continued on. If I could time a run-by DD song, I'd do that, but usually timing was off with selo's ticks so I'd just smack it in the face and continue running. If I got stunned I was always far enough ahead of the pack that the rest of the mobs wouldn't kill me before I could run again.

[DarthMartigan]

I did shurikens til 30 and then switched to the DD song with shurikens as a back up. When you start doing FV, you really don't need ot hit things anymore. They already hate you.