Video: Why Red Wood Wands Got Nerfed (#1 DPS Character Serverwide)

[Cen]

Actually, watch this firiona one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV1AsERU4RM

Around 6 minutes I start blabbing about the instrument modifier and how when you place the item into the slot you can still get full damage after it fires. This is a bard still at 43.

At level 43, a bard will be able to do 53 damage per tick (24+29)
At level 47, a bard will be doing 57 damage per tick (26+31)
At level 48, you add in a third song, and can do an additional 52 damage for a total of 109 damage per tick if you nail all instruments perfectly.

I'm not the best swarmer and when I used to do that I did the stupid drive by method for newbs. A good circler who's perfect can do a lot of damage.

I also learned that chant stacks can allow a bard to get up to 70 DPS at the end of the game, but I only stopped at level 56, no epic, and not that crazy long duration chant

[Castle2.0]

Great video. Love the lambent blue.

Since you're not using the level 48 song in that video... How do you answer the above questions?

How often do you get 25 of 25 hits on the 48 snare-DoT? If not, you got mobs at different run speeds and gotta wait til it wears off to use next DoT.

[Cen]

Originally Posted by Castle2.0 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Great video. Love the lambent blue.

Since you're not using the level 48 song in that video... How do you answer the above questions?

How often do you get 25 of 25 hits on the 48 snare-DoT? If not, you got mobs at different run speeds and gotta wait til it wears off to use next DoT.

Well that's easy: its not a problem because it doesn't snare at all. Its a slow only. You might be thinking of the level 54 AOE snare which doesn't stack with the 48 spell, but that's just because of the slow component. 48 is just a big ass DoT with a AOE slow (not a snare)

It hits about the same as the others, which is like.. most of the time on things lower than you. The drolvargs actually have a very high MR.

[Castle2.0]

You're right, I did mix those 2 up. Very nice.

109 theoretical max DoT per tic per mob. I doubt in practice you'd hit that high due to resists. I remember level 2 being not too bad, but level 18 one seemed to resist a good amount. Don't even remember the 48 one.

But if you wanna make the video on Green, take the crown, and prove me wrong, it's up to you Cen.

P.S. For some theoretical fun with my theoretical buddy ChooChoo. At ~2,700 dmg/tic (109 across 25 mobs), you're looking at less than 2 wands (380 dmg x 4 mobs x 2 wands = ~3,000 dmg). Can I click 2 wands in 6 seconds? 2:17-2:23. Yes. /theoretical thread.

[Cen]

I play Cleric on green I dont know about some of the competition challenge discussion thing I just wanted to correct the damage per tic and that bards are not subject to the 66% rule for AOEs.

Basically, I think Bards are pretty OP when I mained one, their hardcoding has a lot of unique special abilities and also bards do way more DPS then people think on average, especially with single target chant stacking.

[BlackBellamy]

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

SamDeathwalker, is that you?

Sam doesn't play on servers that don't allow 12-boxing.

[Jimjam]

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

Sam doesn't play on servers that don't allow 12-boxing.

I think I just worked out why the red server always has a dozen people online!!

[Geomance22]

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[bradsamma]

Wow, that wand guy seems to like talking out of his ass about stuff he knows nothing about.

[charmcitysking]

song?