The Bard Guide

sofaking

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The Bard Guide

« on: November 04, 2012, 07:53:34 pm »

I have leveled my Bard to 70, and he is part of my group.

However, I am stunned at the lack of information about this class! So, here is my attempt at collecting information, and putting it in one place.

Epics
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1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0 - Song that Increases critical chance by 30% (or increase crit dmg??)
3.5
4.0 - Click gives 50k mana + 50k endurance per tick
4.5
5.0
5.5

Songs:
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There are basically 3 songs series worth singing.

Ancient Call of Power - There is a huge discussion on hasting and overhasting, just let it fall down to, if you have a bard, let them sing something! Using Ancient Call of Power adds this Overhaste + I believe this song increases your chance to proc by 30%

Selos (not the highest level one with levitate, it seems broken) Some say not to worry about it, but I like all my guys able to run the same speed.

Storm Blade adds a proc to your whole group.
or
Tempest Blade I II or III - adds a proc to your whole group
   I Drops in QVIC 500proc
   II Drops in T2 1750 Proc
   III Drops in T5 for 3250 Proc

Augs:
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LDoN Charms:
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Guardian - (not sure what this does?)
Sorcerer - Since most add a Bard to increase DPS, this is the best choice. This aug will actually increase ALL your teams proc damage. (is this true?)

Ring of Ages:
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Many have commented on how the use the bard to powerlevel. The basic premise is, to get duel wielding 3.0 (due to high instrument rating), then group up with your noob.

Run noob around getting aggro with Bard on follow. Play the War March, Psalm of Warmth. ___ of Wee and Selo's song.

Once the DS songs hit a refresh tick, disband the bard and let all the mobs hit the noob. (do not do this in custom zones, as pulling more than 10 is a no-no) (Shaman buffs and Druid Regen help this process quite a bit)

MQ2 Tips and Tricks
For those running MQ2 here are some tips and tricks:
Most versions of MQ2 have the plugin for twisting (MQ's answer to /melody). In order to use it, you must type

/plugin mq2twist

This will enable you to twist your songs and spells together nicely. The command is easy enough, load up the songs you want and then do

/twist 1 3 4 5

With 1, 3, 4 and 5 being the spell gems you want to cast. Now since most will not be running their bard as their main guy, you will want a couple buttons setup on your MAIN GUY. The first, is have everyone on your team load up the spells they will use, then save them all as the same SPELL SET name. My system uses myspells. This makes it easy after a wipe or whatever, you can tell all your chars to mem their spells (songs)

/bcaa //loadspellset myspells

The next button will be to tell the bard to start singing your selected songs

/bca BardName //twist 1 3 4

You need to be careful as your bard will always be casting these spells, so if you are trying to get your team to gate out then you will need to first send your bard a

/twist off

Once you hit Epic 3.0, you will want to include this in your twist. In order to do this, you will need to find your MQ2Twist.INI file (found in your MQ2 directory) Find the section for say [click_10]

Replace it with this section below.
[Click_10]
CastTime=4
ReCastTime=600
Name=DISABLED
Slot=13

Now 10 will actually fire off your main hand right click cast. So a command like:

/twist 10 3 5 will ensure your epic is always on.

More to come later, but these simple guides will help you get started.


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sofaking

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Re: The Bard Guide

« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2012, 07:56:03 pm »

Save for more info later


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Griz

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Re: The Bard Guide

« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2012, 12:38:20 am »

The 3.0 click increases the crit chance of spells and procs. It works on strike augs, and thus is a tremendous boost to the dps of a group.

Songs I'm running in T5:

Tempest Blade
Stampede (like 4k AC, rofl)
Niv's (more AC)
War March of Muram (hella ATK)
Ancient: Call of Power (overhaste)
Refreshing 3.0 once a minute

I haven't tested if the debuff song works with augs, but it's less annoying to just leave a twist going of all buffs.


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Kreemo

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Re: The Bard Guide

« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2012, 04:29:10 am »

So you need a 3.0 in your main hand even though it means dumping my 4.0?
You can't click it from inventory?


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sofaking

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Re: The Bard Guide

« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2012, 04:29:36 pm »

I have not tried clicking from inventory, but probably you can use mq2exchange.

I will test one day, and post up how to go about it.


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Kwai

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Re: The Bard Guide

« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2012, 06:09:19 am »

You can cast from inventory. I put it in my attack key, but you have to remember to turn off /melody first.


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Griz

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Re: The Bard Guide

« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2012, 11:22:04 pm »

Quote from: sofaking on November 09, 2012, 04:29:36 pm

I have not tried clicking from inventory, but probably you can use mq2exchange.

I will test one day, and post up how to go about it.

I'm not sure if exchange is allowed here or not. Some sort of official word on it would be nice. It just moves stuff around in your inventory so I don't really think it's problematic, but it's really the bossman's call.


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Clegane

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Re: The Bard Guide

« Reply #7 on: December 23, 2012, 01:01:41 am »

I just started using a bard for the first time and I gotta say it's making a massive difference to my group... just one question though - I want to use selo's (the 2nd highest level version) in my lineup but for some reason he only casts it once. I have it set to /twist 10 1 2 3 4 selo's being the 2nd spell on that list. Does it matter what order they are in? I dunno, any ideas would be appreciated.


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Ybik

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Re: The Bard Guide

« Reply #8 on: December 23, 2012, 03:48:19 am »

Since it lasts X amount of time(longer than the other songs) he should recast it as its about to fade. So if it lasts 2 minutes he will recast it right before that 2 minutes is up. So he would go 1 2 3 4, 1 3 4, 1 3 4, 1 2 3 4 I may be wrong though.


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Xiggie | Stone

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Re: The Bard Guide

« Reply #9 on: December 23, 2012, 09:58:45 am »

Selos is useless on this server. It makes no difference in run speed.


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Fliker

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Re: The Bard Guide

« Reply #10 on: December 23, 2012, 10:48:41 am »

The speed helps if not have T2 boots yet and lev part of it is nice in pod Tongue


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Griz

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Re: The Bard Guide

« Reply #11 on: December 23, 2012, 01:10:19 pm »

Quote from: Xiggie AKA Stone on December 23, 2012, 09:58:45 am

Selos is useless on this server. It makes no difference in run speed.

Selos brings you to 255 speed whereas T2 boots are only 200. The donor item is basically the same as instant selos.


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Xiggie | Stone

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Re: The Bard Guide

« Reply #12 on: December 23, 2012, 05:25:28 pm »

Tried it with a lvl 70 bard with no buffs and no aa. Tried it with the 1.0 epic and whatever instrument it uses, there was absolutely no difference aside from the levitation.


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Xiggie | Stone

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Re: The Bard Guide

« Reply #13 on: December 23, 2012, 05:28:33 pm »

I have also tried it with all other epics up to 5.0.


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Griz

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Re: The Bard Guide

« Reply #14 on: December 23, 2012, 05:29:36 pm »

Are you using Selo's Song of Travel or Selo's Accelerating Chorus?

Use the latter, and do the following with/without it

/echo ${Me.Speed}

while running in a straight line.


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