Most enjoyable alt? (POLL)

[Loke]

If you want to mostly group: bard
If you want to mostly solo: enchanter
If you don't know: enchanter

Bards can absolutely solo, but pulling for 15 minutes and then running in circles for another 15 minutes over and over again is about the most mind numbing experience I've ever partaken in. Bards are however a blast to play in groups if you're the type of person who likes being busy and enjoys finding little ways ti maximize your play.

I played a bard first, so my take on chanters is that they're very similar to bards, but the things they share in common are way easier on a chanter. Want to haste on a bard? That is one less mez you can perform. Chanters just cast haste and its gtg. Mezsing on bards requires you to get good at targeting to cycle through mobs (cant rely on tab, especially in dungeons), but on a chanter you can just toss out AE mez and you're golden for 24 seconds.

I found bards more challenging and more fun in groups, but enchanter gives you more options in terms of play style. A bard really needs a trio or more for a solid group, but a chanter can team up with just about any caster or priest and make it work.

[EliteJackson]

After playing Necro and Shaman to 50+, most melees were not interesting to me. I like to press buttons and have little downtime.

Thus I created a bard and realized that it is fun as balls. And no xp penalty now, so slightly less carpal tunnel.

P.S. Macros ruin all the barding fun. The RMI is a badge of honor that makes your cock/tits swell up with pride

[alexnoshinku]

Enchanter all the way!!!! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[greenspectre]

The first time I swarm kited 10+ orcs in Oasis I was stuck on bard. And here I thought it was going to be a grind to get to dual wield level! Not to mention your best newbie melee weapon, Sionachie's Partisan, is only 50-100pp. You don't even have to cash in that fungi!

[Maner]

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

hes gonna LOVE working on his enchanters epic on blue, its much much easier than monk on blue. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What is so bad about chanter epic on blue? I had verina and vessel at lvl 42 and epic at 50. Would of had epic at 46 but it took forever to get the stupid hate drop.

[skarlorn]

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

Bards can absolutely solo, but pulling for 15 minutes and then running in circles for another 15 minutes over and over again is about the most mind numbing experience I've ever partaken in. Bards are however a blast to play in groups if you're the type of person who likes being busy and enjoys finding little ways ti maximize your play.

Back when kekephee played here, I hung out with him IRL once and he showed me how to bard kite in SK. Long story short, it was 'get this pack and then RUN IN CIRCLES FOR AN HOUR"

I remember looking at him, a late 20s something dude in his parent's home, hunched over the box, yammering about running in circles for hours on end, and the metaphor just became way too fucking real.

[Caiu]

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

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I think your employment status is showing sir

It really isn't that bad since none of it can be MQ. Not like during Kunark that's for sure.

[skarlorn]

kekephee and i have known each other for over a decade so a little dunkage here and there is a requisite 4 keeping it real

[Triiz]

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

Bards can absolutely solo, but pulling for 15 minutes and then running in circles for another 15 minutes over and over again is about the most mind numbing experience I've ever partaken in. Bards are however a blast to play in groups if you're the type of person who likes being busy and enjoys finding little ways ti maximize your play.

Swarming is just one piece of the solo bard arsenal. Outdoors bard can arguably charm solo 1 v 1 mobs faster than an enchanter. For a bard it's very easy to keep both mobs constantly dotted, around lvl 50 or so the damage from all 3 chants adds up quick.

Sure a bard can't charm a pet, throw 60% haste on it, give it some weapons and let it annihilate 5 mobs in 30 seconds like an Enchanter, but for xping bard charm is nice.

[Maner]

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

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I think your employment status is showing sir

I work an average of 48 hours a week. Like I said, the chanter epic takes at most 1 group to get any one piece of it. Meaning the chanter epic isn't hard, the worst part is finding stuff up. Please stop projecting though, since you were the one who needed to steal wifi from mcdonalds or visit the library to even post....