How Did Old School Bards Do It?

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Double click songs, pull and park for group, lute and regen for downtime.

Always have Regen/mana up, haste, slow/snare, sometimes DS. Typically always had Mez or Charm on bar, along with Selos, the DD song for pulling, Lull and 3 twisting songs.

The big difference I noticed when I started Blue, I looked down on instrument only bards pretty hard; I did some instrument swapping, but I was mostly sub-optimally meleeing [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Also, falling asleep in xp group with mana song on was a good way to get plvled.