Twinking a Bard, Help!

[falkun]

A McVaxius' Horn of War is the best horn, but it drops from a dragon and will eat up a disproportionate amount of that 20k. With no other options, hit up your local instrument vendor NPC for the best horn available.

[baalzy]

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[falkun]

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

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/agree

At the same time, there are worse questions that get repeated in roughly the same frequency.

[baalzy]

Damn... should have underlined the date of that circled thread too.

[Skrimp]

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

Damn... should have underlined the date of that circled thread too.

Ya I actually read that other thread too. Its a bit confusing. Maybe a bit more advanced that what im looking for an It seems like everyone there is contradicting eachothers information. And its mostly based about starting stats etc. Im only curious about gear really.

[falkun]

For aggro generation, are you talking about slow song? That's the biggest aggro generator I've run into, and I've known paladins, SKs, and even warriors that can out-aggro that song.

Also, bards get crap for tanking skills compared to the true tanks, and even rangers have higher tanking ability caps/earlier levels learned.

But I guess with enough Singing Steel and stacking AC in every slot possible, you could tank. But then wouldn't you want to try to find AC neck/ears?

[Slave]

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

For aggro generation, are you talking about slow song? That's the biggest aggro generator I've run into, and I've known paladins, SKs, and even warriors that can out-aggro that song.

Also, bards get crap for tanking skills compared to the true tanks, and even rangers have higher tanking ability caps/earlier levels learned.

But I guess with enough Singing Steel and stacking AC in every slot possible, you could tank. But then wouldn't you want to try to find AC neck/ears?

You can mez, charm, aoe slow, snare, you're probably pulling... if you want to take aggro from ANYONE, you can. You can find ac neck and ears, but they still won't be as useful as hp/mr/dex/cha in as many situations, as the AC can be pretty sparse for those areas.

In most high level groups, you're going to be crowd control anyway and they will want you to stay out of melee. Till then holding aggro is the prime requisite to being the group tank and I believe the bard excels at both that and mitigation.

[deakolt]

^

Somewhere in one of these bard posts, someone said that someone definitively proved that CHA, not DEX, was responsible for less missed notes.

How's that for knowledge?!?!?!!?!?!!!!