How well can Bards solo level with melee?

[drackgon]

As many are saying the best path is charm and such to lvl. I will say this on OP question.

You won't do as much dmg as a rogue/warrior/monk etc. Your around half of them, unless they are super under geared and your twinked. But your still decent, I spent a lot of time on my bard alt in groups in upper guk, and CT. Most time I'd be puller/tank with some melee dps while tanking(mainly holding agro with slows/mez) but also twisting mana song in there. Will say range on mana song was low, so always made sure I tanked mobs as close to casters as I could as I spammed mana/slow/Hp regen. Then back to pulling.

With agro change I don't know how well bards tank anymore with mez/Slow.

[Andyman1022]

Bard Melee is very very good if you have mainhand drum and mainhand lute.

Twist the following: Selo's (snare/slow), Frost chant, Flame Chant, [fufils], cantana (hymn if you dont got)

You may have snare/slow drop off for a half a server tick if u do all 3 dots. Swap in Drums of the Beast before the dot ticks, swap in lute of the howler right before cantana. I've solo'd WL Geo's, Chardok ent/exit/CE, and Lguk Ghoul Lord this way.

Charming is gonna be faster exp, but its nice to have spank/tank and fear kiting to fall back on while your mana ever so slowly ticks back up.

[wuanahto]

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

good bards dont melee (until epic)

charm a mob, attack another, load up w/ drum dots

when charm breaks, charm the other mob, load old pet up w/ drum dots

do this til both low, finish off mobs w/ drum dots

one bash or single server tick throws off all this theorybarding

[Vivitron]

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

one bash or single server tick throws off all this theorybarding

Nah, I did some levels using that technique and it works well.

[Swish]

Biggest annoyance later on with charming is the mana cost and shitty mana regen.