I'd have to rank their mobility at a 5(max) and their Agility well above max (8) myself. They do possess self healing and the ability to heal others, unique in the fact that it heals more then one stat at once, I'd have to bump their defense to 4 out of 10 with that, and agree with an assessment of 5 out of 10 for offence(for commune fetish wielding bards), for an overall of 22.
These are highly subjective at best though.
Moondancer (Hexes) | 7 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 21 |
I'm a healer myself, so I think that would change me to 10/2/3/5. A ten for defense you say? Is that why I still die in 2 combos sometimes? Also that agility rating of 5 goes down to a 3 if I'm not on my own turf with tons of my own team mates milling around and I can flow or moonbeam to. 10-2-3-3 is a lot different from 7-6-3-5. Situations change, and -all- of those numbers on the chart will as well. It's very subjective though, mostly to how one currently feels about the state of the world and their character.
Maybe I should rank my offense at a 1 though, as a healer without bedevil.
These are highly subjective at best though.
Moondancer (Hexes) | 7 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 21 |
I'm a healer myself, so I think that would change me to 10/2/3/5. A ten for defense you say? Is that why I still die in 2 combos sometimes? Also that agility rating of 5 goes down to a 3 if I'm not on my own turf with tons of my own team mates milling around and I can flow or moonbeam to. 10-2-3-3 is a lot different from 7-6-3-5. Situations change, and -all- of those numbers on the chart will as well. It's very subjective though, mostly to how one currently feels about the state of the world and their character.
Maybe I should rank my offense at a 1 though, as a healer without bedevil.
I still think an agility of anything less then above max is wrong. 
This is also a-typical combat only, I'd have to rank them high, if not best, out of all archetypes for influencing or swaying villages.
This is also a-typical combat only, I'd have to rank them high, if not best, out of all archetypes for influencing or swaying villages.
Minorsecond is exactly in between trans druidry nature curse and trans druidry point cudgel with a maestro (maxed) instrument.
Bards are suited more for group battles than for single fights, however, with the way deafness works at the moment, they aren't quite as useful in group fights as one would hope, since they can't really keep one person deaf, much less ten. Blank note should be AoE
Ecology is probably the best for bards, and it combos well with a really nice song of both communes (Shadowbeat has a song to reduce chance of shrugging, and Wildarrane has a song that makes all of your poisons also increase tiredness - illusionist bards can't benefit from either).
Bards really have no skills to combo with illusions well, if you ask me, but eventually, Illusions will be redone to be better for bards. They are going to divide illusions into two specs, Phantasms for magi, and Glamours for bards. We have no idea how far away this change is though.
Bards are suited more for group battles than for single fights, however, with the way deafness works at the moment, they aren't quite as useful in group fights as one would hope, since they can't really keep one person deaf, much less ten. Blank note should be AoE
Ecology is probably the best for bards, and it combos well with a really nice song of both communes (Shadowbeat has a song to reduce chance of shrugging, and Wildarrane has a song that makes all of your poisons also increase tiredness - illusionist bards can't benefit from either).
Bards really have no skills to combo with illusions well, if you ask me, but eventually, Illusions will be redone to be better for bards. They are going to divide illusions into two specs, Phantasms for magi, and Glamours for bards. We have no idea how far away this change is though.
QUOTE(Cuber @ Nov 3 2006, 07:47 AM) 350151
Bards are supposed to be a support class. It was said so since day one. And that's what they're good for.
Frankly, not even that.
Ask Athana and I how we fight (I'll give you a hint, it involves a couple of novice skills and 0 necroscream)
Our "support" aspect is nonexistant since deafness blocks allied effects and everyone (least on our side) is deaf to counter enemy effects since their offensive effects are good and ours.. well.. aren't
