Guide to AoE Bard Kiting, here on P99.

[Lazortag]

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

From my experience AoE does not work too well on any type of Giants.

Due to how large the circle has to be in order for them to not be able to hit you and how small the AoE range is you end up being out of range so often that it becomes mostly inefficient. Of course you almost never find 2 giants up at the same time any more...

The same applies to cyclopses though, which means unfortunately it's extremely hard to aoe kite seafuries. Oh well. Maybe p99 is healthier without Bards being able to solo the whole island.

[Musetii]

I'm sad brews that AE kiting sucks. FBSS rotting in rathe mnts due to final death of giants.

[citizen1080]

I used to aoe kite half the plan of valor at once and tables in pof.....bards should be op !

[Uthgaard]

To be honest, this whole rhetoric is becoming fairly cliché. Anything that isn't classic but actually gives someone an unintended advantage gets abused and goes unreported by the entire server for a year. (Selling mystic cloaks, anyone?)

Bard posts might get looked at more if they kept it to the facts and didn't become 15 page pissing matches. No one wants to dig through your petty arguments to find the little nuggets of factual evidence.

[citizen1080]

Fact : bards were op

Make it so !

=)

[citizen1080]

Fact : bards were op

Make it so !

=)

[falkun]

Ok, I recommend starting a list of good places to bard kite. The most recommended spot for bard AE kiting is aviaks starting at around L19-23ish. This doesn't help someone like me who is only L9. So, I'm going to start my leveling list:

1-5 Newbie area. You won't be kiting much, you don't have selos and chanting could cause more harm than good due to MOB density.

5-7 Orc Hill in GFay. Spot #1 from this map of GFay. Group or lull to pull solos. If solo try to avoid oracles. Again you may not be actually kiting a whole lot.

7-8 I recommend the bandit camp in GFay. Spot #3 from this map of GFay. I grouped in CB, but the grouping was hit or miss. Here is where you can begin to actually start your career bard kiting; you'll finally have selos, so you can begin the process of learning to swap instruments and twisting chords/selos/hymn (as needed). Also, by L9, the bandit exp is a bit on the slow side.

9+ I found two nice camps of higher level CB Orc Centurions in LFay. Spots #6 & 11 on this map of LFay. At 9, I have been pulling one whole camp and twisting it down with chords and selos, adding hymn as necessary. However, as I'm still learning the exactness of turning in for chords range, I am dieing quite frequently. If I pull each camp as two pulls, I could probably clear both camps before respawns and just about never die. I will probably spend a few levels here as the orcs /CON Dark Blue to the occasional yellow. As I get better at kiting I may try to kite both camps together.

19-23 Aviaks in SK. I believe its Spot #9 from this map of SK.

I have subscribed to this awesome tome of bardic knowledge and will try to keep this thread up to date with good bard kite locations.

[Mcbard]

I have nothing to add other than the fact that I think this is an excellent thread (minus all of the bickering).

Being a low level bard, I had tried kiting and noticed the hitbox issues and had almost given up to re-roll as a necromancer (the class I am at heart) before rereading this thread and learning about the zig-zag trick to overcome the issue, so thanks a bunch! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Mcbard]

Cool song list: http://crys.org/everquest/spells/bardsongs_az.asp

Better than Allah's imo because it's much less updated which helps when finding certain songs and merchants in zones that have been redone on live. Includes locs for most merchants. An example would be Inisis Trimpet, whom Allah's states is in East Freeport, but she is actually in North.

[jimmygarr]

Great advice and very cool video, Nalkin. If you don't mind me asking, what is that UI that you are using? I liked the swap spot for weapons/instruments there.