Bard One-on-One solo?

[Nagoya]

Just in case it wasn't clear enough from my first post, I was not planing to melee on a bard [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I was honestly just curious how you would deal with a mob jumping on you while you... well bards don't med but ... Whatever [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I have no idea how the class is played, but this is EQ so I still think you can be randomly aggroed? so I was thinking do you just Selo and run, or can you actually kill the mob down and get the XP and then continue whatever you were doing? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

However the thread has perfectly answered the question thanks to all who participated! Even though I still don't know how to play the class I do agree that it is probably not an optimal solo-xp strategy - but that wasn't the question ^o^/

[Tann]

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

optimal solo-xp strategy

aside from mana loss via the 2nd charm song pretty much anything a bard does is "optimal solo-xp". even the least effective way a bard can solo is still above what any other class can do, IMHO because you have no down time, ever.

[Bluedarksun]

Bards are the most fun class to play. I played mine until 10 then stopped because I thought all they could do was AOE kite. Later I started back and have fear and chant kited my way to 48 and have had a blast doing it. Any melee done is to keep skills maxed, but since they are already, it’s business as usual.

[fash]

Indoor or if you can't fear kite for some other reason, you can melee and/or charm mobs on one another while mezing periodically to restore hp before continuing.

[Dolalin]

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

circle kiting is really the way to go. yes, it's tedious and takes forever to clear out a pull, but you're killing 25 mobs at a time.

I kited way more than 25 at a time in OT. More like 50, and yes this is post nerf. Your songs only hit 25 at a time, but as they die it hits new ones in the swarm, so your kill takes longer but most of the work is in the pulling. I would make huge pulls and just grind them down.