Bard in Dreadlands

[renordw]

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

Bard swarming represents an easy chance to peel four mobs for a quad with the temp flux. Nobody disrupting a zone has a right to complain, though people tried. I just reply "quit being greedy" and leave it at that.

I grouped with a good bard once in p99 though, it was amazing.

Better hope those bards don't die or you'll be dead before you realize what happened

[Skinned]

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

Better hope those bards don't die or you'll be dead before you realize what happened

I keep SOW on while I quad, and I tend to gate to Gfay to med up [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

And it wouldn't surprise me at all, because the kind of person who disrupted a whole zone swarm kiting probably does things like train people regularly on purpose. There is a level of schadenfreude to what they do.

[TKoji]

Sorry to hear you lost your robe OP. Not sure what can be done about it, but I wish you good luck. And I know the "wall of doom" as I like to call it - when a bard dies and every drovlarg comes strolling back. The chaos that ensues is not fun, I've found myself in the middle of that multiple times.

I'd say in two years playing here I've had one maybe two good experiences with a bard.
One was a bard named Ludvig or something like that. Grouped with him once in my youth, never saw him again. The other one was a level 40ish bard grouping for the first time. He snared the mob (not sure why as the necro was before) and played an aoe song. That's it. Wasn't the greatest but he warned us he never grouped before, so whatever.

The others have been negative. Zone disruptions from no mobs to kill, dying and having people caught up in a million mobs pacing back, running swarms over your head, etc. If you complain or ask them to stop you get attitude or they drop mobs onto you. Nothing much you can do except go elsewhere. I can't recall any bards that I have ported in the past (when I was young and ported for cash) that didn't immediately selos off into the sunset upon landing or tip me 1-5pp (these being high levels). Hard to avoid porting them as they are always anon!

[Loke]

How do you people even die to bard trains? I always hear people bitch about it, but in like 6 years of playing here I don't think I've ever been trained by a bard. How bad is your situational awareness that you don't notice 100+ mobs walking towards you? Bards dropping their kites is annoying, but getting killed because you didn't notice 1/2 the mobs in the zone coming your way isn't completely their fault.

Set up some where that is easy to see/avoid trains, pay attention when/how the bard is pulling and kiting around you, and maybe shoot them a tell letting them know where you set up so they can avoid you. Sucks that you lost a Tola robe, but I'd be shocked if this wasn't an avoidable death. Its like people who complain about getting trained while AFK at Karnor's zone... sucks you got trained, but what do you expect when you afk at karnor's zone? Gotta pay attention and stay out of the way when there is someone kiting half a zone.

[Sage Truthbearer]

Originally Posted by Loke

How do you people even die to bard trains?

In the case of DL, most groups set up along the North or East walls of KC. When a Bard drops a train 100s of Drolvargs will reset and in the process path right on top of KC (where players can't see them) only to suddenly appear on the other side and instantly kill entire groups.

[Tewaz]

This is a neat idea for PVP. Swarm everything in DL with a TL box up, wait for people to zone out of KC and click.

[Nixtar]

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

This is a neat idea for PVP. Swarm everything in DL with a TL box up, wait for people to zone out of KC and click.

Might want to read through the server rules before you try that... Just a thought.

[SamwiseRed]

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

This is a neat idea for PVP. Swarm everything in DL with a TL box up, wait for people to zone out of KC and click.

this happened alot with KC battles actually without the TL boxes. empire would use an OOR alt to gather up DL and suicide all the mobs at the ZL so when we were zoning out of KC from their trains inside, we would die to their trains outside in DL. since it was done by a drugged out out of range unguilded toon, nothing happened. legit strat.

[Eugee]

1. Bard pulling half the zone in DL aggro most of the mobs with social aggro, so they will absolutely attack someone medding on the north/east wall of KC.

2. Bards pulling half the zone in DL are often so far out in front of their train that they drag it directly along the walls of KC.

[NovaSeven]

bards are the wurst