Bard AoE kiting How-to & Screenshots

[HitMePat]

Completed my first AoE kite since 2004 today. Four Orc centurions on my level 4 bard in gfay. I never knew about strafe kiting. Managed to hit them with CoD without sow, and only got myself hit a couple times [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]. Back in the day i used jboots or sow potions but since im a Newbie on P99 i dont have access to those yet. I've got a feeling I'll be leveling up quick with this strafe method with a little more practice. Thanks to all the posters who took the time to explain it.

[kined]

hey all! been kiting for a little bit now and im really starting to see the exp fly now that im not dying every other kite! got my circles pretty tight now. heres a semi small kite i just did, ive done some bigger ones, and ive done some tighter circles, but i still think it was a pretty good kite overall! about 26 mobs if i counted exp messages correctly!

im using the "hold w+d while mouse turning left" method, works great. i use selos without drums for the circle. i dont change instuments at all during the circles. i use drums to pull, then switch to brass for the entirety of the circling (unless i have to regen, but most of the time if i get smacked i just die). make sure you have macros! they help a ton. i keep my brass dot + selos on 1 and then my chords dot + selos on 2.

make sure you have selos bound to something else like 4 just incase u miss a note with the macros. if you slow down while using my method you are almost sure to die. if i miss a note with selos i just let go of mouse turning and strafe forward, recast selos and then go back to circling

btw, DONT let people bitching about bards in OT detract you from doing your thing. of course, dont be rude, leave some mobs if you see some guy soloing or a group. every once in a while i just invite someone for the pull and let em get a bubble, people remember that stuff! however, no matter how courteous you are people will still bitch about you even if you arent hurting them in any way. people are just assholes, but remember that they would almost definitely do it too if their class was capable.

[Goseals6]

Just want to say thanks for all this. I tried swarming some stuff at lvl 3 using chords but the hit box for it seems so small. I'll give it another go here shortly.

[Cords]

Goseals the best way to learn is not using strafe off the bat. I count the foot step sounds, 1..2.. turn 1..2.. turn, and just keep doing that, it keeps a tight enough circle for CoD to hit all the mobs.

[Goseals6]

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

Goseals the best way to learn is not using strafe off the bat. I count the foot step sounds, 1..2.. turn 1..2.. turn, and just keep doing that, it keeps a tight enough circle for CoD to hit all the mobs.

Well, I had a pretty good grasp of it on live a few years ago but in classic..a new story entirely lol. I tried kiting CB orcs around, but I got destroyed. Majority of the time they were hitting me and not even in my field of vision behind me.

I chalk that up to latency and CoD's hit radius is very very small when factoring in latency.

[Cords]

Right on, I always start in qeynos on my bards, but I know all the kiting spots from qeynos to south karana

Keep at it, hope the Latency gets resolved for you.

[Goseals6]

After some fine tuning, I can now swarm kite all of orc hill at lvl 6 provided I don't get any casters. I was doing it wrong before hand and had many straight paths instead of small turns. I also managed to get a few spectators, one complimented me and another told me how jealous he was lol.

I kept up 3 songs just fine with no issues and that HP regen song is a life saver lol

[Furinex]

Here's a good one in EK, doesnt look like a lot but it was 25 mobs, lots of the wolves were stacked on top of each other.

[1203jjt]

What is everyone's latency in game? My internet connection isn't the fastest, and I hover around 100ms. I've had a bit of trouble getting the hang of kiting, and I'm wondering if this could be the reason? I'm going to have a more reliable connection next month...perhaps I should just wait until then.

[Goseals6]

furinex are you Thepianoman in game?? Level 19 bard??