Bard Dots Stacking

[Vivitron]

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

Not sure why you would want to equip a lute if you're planning on Dotting, most of the dots are drum. It was mentioned prime hand drum is expensive, but you can put the epic in primary hand and use a secondary drum (selo's drum or walrus drum much more attainable and almost as good as DoTB).

Equip drum use Fufils and the chants of flame and frost for top dot dps. If you're good at twisting (better be if you're a 60 epic bard) then you can twist all 3 dots plus fear and snare (5 twist) without anything falling off.

The offhand instruments are 2 handers but the prime hand is single hand. The p99 client wont let you put anything prime hand with an offhand drum. So with a prime hand instrument you can melee with two weapons and tap the instrument in right before the song lands. With an offhand instrument you give up melee altogether. The top two string dots are roughly equal to the two tuyens; 30 and 32 base damage on the strings vs 31 base damage on either tuyens according to the wiki.

With that said it would have to be a fairly unique encounter to employ this strategy. Not many things that you would want to fear kite at lvl 60 with an epic bard.

I'm also a little curious what OP is fearing. I've done Yeldema and Gafala some on my bard, mostly for dragon head quests (https://wiki.project1999.com/Dragon_Heads and https://wiki.project1999.com/Living_Dragons). I didn't find them high enough value to seek them out, but did find them high enough value to kill if I happened to be there with a little time to burn when I was already farming stuff with my bard that needed transferred to my trader.

[WarpathEQ]

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

The offhand instruments are 2 handers but the prime hand is single hand. The p99 client wont let you put anything prime hand with an offhand drum. So with a prime hand instrument you can melee with two weapons and tap the instrument in right before the song lands. With an offhand instrument you give up melee altogether. The top two string dots are roughly equal to the two tuyens; 30 and 32 base damage on the strings vs 31 base damage on either tuyens according to the wiki.

You are correct with traditional weapons but the bard epic is the one exception to this you can dual wield bard epic in main hand with instrument in off hand and toggle out an off hand weapon as you described.

[Vivitron]

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

You are correct with traditional weapons but the bard epic is the one exception to this you can dual wield bard epic in main hand with instrument in off hand and toggle out an off hand weapon as you described.

I wish, but no it doesn't work that way on p99. I even double checked it just now.

[Ripqozko]

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

You are correct with traditional weapons but the bard epic is the one exception to this you can dual wield bard epic in main hand with instrument in off hand and toggle out an off hand weapon as you described.

Bard epic and instrument only works if you offhand epic and mainhand an instrument not other way around .

[WarpathEQ]

That's trash, how has nobody started a technical issues thread and got it fixed so that the epic works like classic and allows for dual wield with off hand instruments?

Aside from the epic covering all instruments and eliminating the equip an instrument qualifier for certain songs, the ability to dual wield with offhand instrument is the 2nd most valuable feature of the epic.

Epic bards everywhere should be ashamed that this has gone on for years.

[Ripqozko]

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

That's trash, how has nobody started a technical issues thread and got it fixed so that the epic works like classic and allows for dual wield with off hand instruments?

Aside from the epic covering all instruments and eliminating the equip an instrument qualifier for certain songs, the ability to dual wield with offhand instrument is the 2nd most valuable feature of the epic.

Epic bards everywhere should be ashamed that this has gone on for years.

Sorry you don’t got primary instruments