Love trying old games, I want to start my first OS Mmorpg here!

[indiscriminate_hater]

oh sorry, that was a half joke, tiggles ran a stream for a while but is on hiatus now or something. he has powerful characters but tends to do boring stuff with them on stream.

the effect of bard songs is pretty short, usually on the order of 15-20 seconds depending on when you cast them. usually you want to keep as many up as possible at any one time -- between 3 and 5 songs. you have to do this by singing song 1, then stopping the song as soon as its effect takes place so that you can start another. the faster you can switch/twist songs, the more songs you can keep up at any one time.

[indiscriminate_hater]

by bossing do you mean killing boss mobs?

[yuioplok]

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

by bossing do you mean killing boss mobs?

Yes, and being a Bard sounds like it's wrist raping.

[indiscriminate_hater]

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

being a Bard sounds like it's wrist raping.

i can confirm this, although there are ways to ease the load.

generally you will need help from other players to kill 'named' or rare mobs. this isn't much of a problem because most of the game requires you to group with other players to kill stuff -- especially for classes that don't solo very well, and more so as you gain levels.

the toughest stuff in the game takes several groups -- this is where guilds come in

[Estu]

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

Yes, and being a Bard sounds like it's wrist raping.

It depends on what you do with a bard. If you're just grouping or doing simple single-target soloing, it's not bad if you use macros. You can make a macro (a clickable or hotkeyable button) that stops your current song and starts another one, which basically halves the number of clicks or button presses you need to do. At that point you need to press a button every time a song finishes, i.e. once every few seconds, which is not horrible.

On the other hand, if you want to take down entire zones at once, that can be pretty hard on the wrist. Not quite as much when you get to level 18 and acquire a somewhat higher-range DoT song to use.

For "bossing", there are a few different things that happen. First, when you're leveling, there are named ("boss") monsters that you'll encounter that are tougher and have better loot than their surrounding monsters. You will generally be taking these down in the context of an EXP group, though many people get to a high level and then specifically target certain named monsters that drop very valuable loot, who they can easily kill solo. These monsters don't give any more EXP than any other monster of the same level and don't tend to be all that much stronger (at most, they're generally just a different class than the standard warrior enemy, and higher-level than the surrounding monsters); their main value is better loot.

Second, there are raids, where you take down dragons or the avatars of gods. This requires a large number of people working together, and each person is generally doing just one or two things; raids are actually often somewhat boring compared to grouping, because the presence of so many people means that each person's role is greatly simplified (although more precision is often necessary in fulfilling that simplified role). Several of the biggest raid bosses that drop the best loot are in extremely high demand on this server, with many different guilds able to kill them, so what happens is that people will basically sit at their spawn points waiting for them to spawn, then once they do, amass as many people as they can in their guild to get online immediately (via text message, generally). Raid bosses are somewhat more complicated than typical monsters, but fighting them is not in general all that complicated. There is also no limit to how many people you can throw at a raid boss, so if you happen to have a guild that can log in 100 people on short notice to kill a raid boss, then you can take it down with minimal effort.

[Elements]

bossing is runescape speak for raiding

[Clark]

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bossing is runescape speak for raiding

[ncapatina]

Troll reaching epic proportions.

[yuioplok]

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

bossing is runescape speak for raiding

I still play Runescape, lol, but not lets get off for speaking about that game on different game site, I don't want to kill other people's vibe from this thread.

[yuioplok]

Hmm, where are the east commonlands.