Bard Curiosity

[Traderseven]

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

This one time, at bard camp...

=D

[Jeice]

You can easily get a set of banded just by saving up a little money and buying it. Sometimes you will get lucky and people will just give you bronze instead of selling it, I would suggest finding a guild and they can probably help you out with things like this and would be easy to find a group and so forth. Soloing as a Bard does not come all to easy unless your well geared until the 30's when you start getting the helpful songs that allow you to swarm kite. If i were you I would suggest coming to Ecom area and binding in North Freeport. It tends to be easy to find a group when Wcom, Befallen, Nro and Oasis is so close, and you can also find a regen / dmg shield somewhat easy with everyone in the Ecom Tunnel system. As for a weapon, anything will do. If your still using a noobie sword there is a good chance you can just get one of those cheap bondage whips off someone for free or even buy a Jambiya which is good for you at low levels and tends to sell for under 50p.

[erasser]

I've got a bard question too.

At one time do you want to equip your instrument to play a song. Can you start the song, then equip the instrument and it will proc with the instrument potency boost? Or do you need to have it equipped before you cast the song? If you have to have it equipped, can you swap it out mid song to your melee weapon and still have the instrument potency boost?

[Extunarian]

I went from 10-14 quite quickly and made a grip of plat by killing the rabid grizzlies in Qeynos Hills. Not bad XP for the level, but the real XP and money comes from turning in rabid grizzly pelts to the cleric in the spaceship in north qeynos. The reward is a nice amount of xp, ~2pp, and a spell that can be sold to the nearby vendors for 2pp. The pelts are not lore so I would often fill up backpacks until I was too encumbered to fight, then go turn in for my 50pp and level.

[Swiftsong_Lorekeeper]

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

I've got a bard question too.

At one time do you want to equip your instrument to play a song. Can you start the song, then equip the instrument and it will proc with the instrument potency boost? Or do you need to have it equipped before you cast the song? If you have to have it equipped, can you swap it out mid song to your melee weapon and still have the instrument potency boost?

The appropriate intrument for the song being played has to be equipped when the song completes playing. So for instance, with selos you can equip the drum at any point during the "cast" but you absolutely have to have the drum equipped when the song completes playing in order to receive the percussion mod.

[Fryhole]

With the lower level DoT song, I noticed if you equip an instrument after you've cast (sung) it - it'll boost the next tick. If you remove it, the bonus won't last even if the song duration isn't over. However, if you have the instrument equipped right before the song casts, the bonus will last the duration of the ticks. *shrug*

[MeldrathRN]

My grandpa was a bard so that makes me a quarter bard.