How well do bard songs, or bards in general work?

[Arkanjil]

Swarm kiting by means of DoTing the mobs down DOES work. It is just charm swarming that does not work here.

[Slave]

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

Swarm kiting by means of DoTing the mobs down DOES work. It is just charm swarming that does not work here.

That was always called AOE kiting. Always.

[Mcbard]

AoE kiting = work.
Swarm kiting = doesn't work.

I'm pretty happy with the way bards function here, there are some slight song issues, and things such as a song buff bar still exist, but I believe most of it is being worked on, and there are no serious issues that would prevent me from playing my bard.

[jerus]

Have to agree with all that was said so far. No swarm kiting makes me sad, as it would be used, but other than that and spell bar dropping things are fine.

[Dr4z3r]

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

That was always called AOE kiting. Always.*

The cast-bar issue is barely noticeable once you get used to it. It's not hard to watch for your song message, the song animation, or the particle effects. Or even just learn about how long 3 seconds is - after all, if you're a bard with no rhythm, you should probably just re-roll. :P

*Except where it wasn't.

[PurelyElf]

So it seems my class has been decided, hope they fix swarm kiting and the casting bar thing though. Does the casting bar go away for other classes too? And what about with clicky items?

Everyone is just joking about no red box, right??

[Fourthmeal]

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

There will never be a Red99

Sry

lies

[Lazortag]

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

So it seems my class has been decided, hope they fix swarm kiting and the casting bar thing though. Does the casting bar go away for other classes too? And what about with clicky items?

I get the casting bar disappearing on clicky items sometimes too (like Lev cloak or my illusion masks). It really isn't that big of an issue though. Bards function way better here than on any other Emu server that's ever existed.

If you want a list of all the Bard issues that currently exist, this thread I made is pretty thorough: http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...ad.php?t=39422. As you can see about 90% of those issues are extremely minor. I think you'll find that Bards still have the same "magic" that they used to back in the day.

[jerus]

The thing that makes me laugh about this, and something that iirc isn't classic although it is possible th bug wasn't in till later, however it is still in live since at least PoP where i remember using it most. But if you lulled a mob twice it would be permanently lulled until it died or zone reset. Was fun logging in an hour early to lull everything on a path for people then jsut walk through =). And again it's still on live, they have been made aware but haven't fixed but this game was able to block that, makes me laugh.

[weald]

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

I get the casting bar disappearing on clicky items sometimes too (like Lev cloak or my illusion masks). It really isn't that big of an issue though. Bards function way better here than on any other Emu server that's ever existed.

I always had the same thing happen on live, so I don't think it has anything to do with emulators. All you have to do is look down at chat for the song emote message instead, or just do the timing mentally. Either way, it shouldn't ever interrupt twisting.