Sakr2010-11-07 11:02:15
QUOTE (Zarquan @ Sep 28 2010, 05:21 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
And, earwort at least has that earache drawback to it. Doesn't seem to slow down most bards who know what they're doing.
I need help in knowing what I am doing as a bard:
These are my skills:
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Common Skills        Rank          Pool
-------------Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ------------Â Â ------------
Combat                Novice        Melee
Resilience            Virtuoso      Fitness
Discernment          Expert        Intellect
Highmagic            Adept          Arcana
Planar                Expert        Mysticism
Discipline            Gifted        Willpower
Environment          Gifted        Communion
Influence            Transcendent  Magnetism
Dramatics            Master        Performance
Arts                  Capable        Finearts
Beastmastery          Gifted        Magnetism
Aethercraft          Master        Mysticism
Trade Skills          Rank          Pool
-------------Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ------------Â Â ------------
Artisan              Transcendent  Finearts
Guild Skills          Rank          Pool
-------------Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ------------Â Â ------------
Music                Transcendent  Performance
    Shadowbeat
Acrobatics            Gifted        Fitness
Illusions            Transcendent  Intellect
    Glamours
-------------Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ------------Â Â ------------
Combat                Novice        Melee
Resilience            Virtuoso      Fitness
Discernment          Expert        Intellect
Highmagic            Adept          Arcana
Planar                Expert        Mysticism
Discipline            Gifted        Willpower
Environment          Gifted        Communion
Influence            Transcendent  Magnetism
Dramatics            Master        Performance
Arts                  Capable        Finearts
Beastmastery          Gifted        Magnetism
Aethercraft          Master        Mysticism
Trade Skills          Rank          Pool
-------------Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ------------Â Â ------------
Artisan              Transcendent  Finearts
Guild Skills          Rank          Pool
-------------Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ------------Â Â ------------
Music                Transcendent  Performance
    Shadowbeat
Acrobatics            Gifted        Fitness
Illusions            Transcendent  Intellect
    Glamours
and guild skills in description:
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You have gained the following abilities in Shadowbeat:
Composition        You may compose songs expressing your own creativity.
Sustain            The ability to maintain a song.
VenomDrops          Increase the potency of poisons.
ShadowLight        Mother Night's shadows conceal her children.
DiscordantChord    This painful chord shall crush the disharmonic soul.
NightFade          The power of night fades the ego of the weak.
SpiderLegs          Navigate webs with the ease of a spider.
Refrain            A musical structure that allows repetition of a stanza.
BarghestBlues      Hearing barghest howls disrupts herb balance.
ShadowRave          No one can resist dancing to the beat of your music!
Shadowpulse        The song of shadow increased the flow of blood.
CaptiveAudience    Both friends and enemies hear nothing but your songs.
BloodyCaps          A song to make any redcap's mouth water.
DarkHeart          Music that inspires those touched by Glomdoring.
SlaughFest          Dark fae who hear this sound will be driven to a frenzy.
CrowCaw            Hearing the Cawing of Crow can drive a weak mind mad.
WidowsMercy        The poisonous black widow looks mercifully upon your agony.
Encore              Play a rousing encore performance.
NightshadeBlues    Hearing this sound causes the ultimate depression.
WyrdSong            The song of the wyrd protects its own.
Dirge              Let a funeral dirge lead them unto death.
You have gained the following abilities in Acrobatics:
Dodging            Dodge the blows of your foes.
Limber              Limber your limbs to improve your dexterity.
Balancing          Balance on the balls of your feet, like a cat.
Falling            Reduce the effects of falling through body control.
Elasticity          Muscles can be trained to reduce physical damage.
Adroitness          Move very quickly.
Climb              Climbing abilities can be performed quickly.
Handstand          While standing on your hands, you make a hard target.
Springup            Quickly spring to your feet from a prone position.
Sprint              Move quickly about the lands.
Somersault          Roll out of danger gracefully and quickly.
Handspring          Leap out of danger with the greatest of ease.
Contortion          Show them the real way to escape from being bound.
Forwardflip        A complicated move to knock someone over.
Avoid              Prepare yourself to deftly avoid the next blow.
You have gained the following abilities in Glamours:
ColourBurst        A burst of prismatic colours confounds enemies.
Glamour            Conjure the beautiful appearance of another.
Conceal            Rewrite that which pains your sight.
ColourSpray        Bursts of rainbow colours conceal deadly powers.
Wall                Hide exits with an illusory wall.
Fascination        Allure and bedazzle with captivating illusions.
Fireworks          A harmless, though powerful, display over an entire area.
Manse              Partially create a real mansion for private discussions.
RainbowPattern      Weave a swirling pattern of beautiful colours.
Nature              Fool even nature in the open air as a rock or a tree.
Flare              Dazzling fountains of light will stun the eyes.
Mesmerize          Your gentle, soothing visions lull others into slumber.
Statue              Cast a glamour over yourself to appear as a statue.
HypnoticPattern    Your audience will be unable to tear their eyes away.
IllusorySelf        Conjure a powerful glamour to distract attackers.
ColourMaelstrom    All shall know the unrivaled splendour of your glamours.
DeadlyPattern      Enemies who watch this pattern will be left defenseless.
Maze                Create an illusory maze to banish your enemies.
Composition        You may compose songs expressing your own creativity.
Sustain            The ability to maintain a song.
VenomDrops          Increase the potency of poisons.
ShadowLight        Mother Night's shadows conceal her children.
DiscordantChord    This painful chord shall crush the disharmonic soul.
NightFade          The power of night fades the ego of the weak.
SpiderLegs          Navigate webs with the ease of a spider.
Refrain            A musical structure that allows repetition of a stanza.
BarghestBlues      Hearing barghest howls disrupts herb balance.
ShadowRave          No one can resist dancing to the beat of your music!
Shadowpulse        The song of shadow increased the flow of blood.
CaptiveAudience    Both friends and enemies hear nothing but your songs.
BloodyCaps          A song to make any redcap's mouth water.
DarkHeart          Music that inspires those touched by Glomdoring.
SlaughFest          Dark fae who hear this sound will be driven to a frenzy.
CrowCaw            Hearing the Cawing of Crow can drive a weak mind mad.
WidowsMercy        The poisonous black widow looks mercifully upon your agony.
Encore              Play a rousing encore performance.
NightshadeBlues    Hearing this sound causes the ultimate depression.
WyrdSong            The song of the wyrd protects its own.
Dirge              Let a funeral dirge lead them unto death.
You have gained the following abilities in Acrobatics:
Dodging            Dodge the blows of your foes.
Limber              Limber your limbs to improve your dexterity.
Balancing          Balance on the balls of your feet, like a cat.
Falling            Reduce the effects of falling through body control.
Elasticity          Muscles can be trained to reduce physical damage.
Adroitness          Move very quickly.
Climb              Climbing abilities can be performed quickly.
Handstand          While standing on your hands, you make a hard target.
Springup            Quickly spring to your feet from a prone position.
Sprint              Move quickly about the lands.
Somersault          Roll out of danger gracefully and quickly.
Handspring          Leap out of danger with the greatest of ease.
Contortion          Show them the real way to escape from being bound.
Forwardflip        A complicated move to knock someone over.
Avoid              Prepare yourself to deftly avoid the next blow.
You have gained the following abilities in Glamours:
ColourBurst        A burst of prismatic colours confounds enemies.
Glamour            Conjure the beautiful appearance of another.
Conceal            Rewrite that which pains your sight.
ColourSpray        Bursts of rainbow colours conceal deadly powers.
Wall                Hide exits with an illusory wall.
Fascination        Allure and bedazzle with captivating illusions.
Fireworks          A harmless, though powerful, display over an entire area.
Manse              Partially create a real mansion for private discussions.
RainbowPattern      Weave a swirling pattern of beautiful colours.
Nature              Fool even nature in the open air as a rock or a tree.
Flare              Dazzling fountains of light will stun the eyes.
Mesmerize          Your gentle, soothing visions lull others into slumber.
Statue              Cast a glamour over yourself to appear as a statue.
HypnoticPattern    Your audience will be unable to tear their eyes away.
IllusorySelf        Conjure a powerful glamour to distract attackers.
ColourMaelstrom    All shall know the unrivaled splendour of your glamours.
DeadlyPattern      Enemies who watch this pattern will be left defenseless.
Maze                Create an illusory maze to banish your enemies.
Also have nightsweats
and my stats are usually:
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Strength    :  8  Dexterity : 20  Constitution : 11|
| Intelligence : 18  Size      :  6  Charisma    : 20
| Intelligence : 18  Size      :  6  Charisma    : 20
What should I do to have a better offense?
Vadi2010-11-07 15:27:48
Post a log of a sample fight first so we know what to answer with
Mirami2010-11-07 17:05:21
The harbingers I've seen fighting 1v1 tend to go for manabarbs kills. You don't have many passive affs, but you've got a lot of ways to stack manadrain and with octave/manabarbs/nightshadeBlues/bleeding/minorsixth, you can really rack up the damage.
Glamours gives you a wide range of affs, most of which will cost power to use passively (rainbowpattern, maelstrom). Whether or not you'll find them useful is a question only you can answer.
Earwort is the most annoying thing to deal with as a bard, especially when you're using aurics. I'm 80% sure that aurics are cured in the order they were applied, though, so it's good to remember what order you usually stick them. (Eat Earwort/Eat Horehound immediately after is the problem here).
Glamours gives you a wide range of affs, most of which will cost power to use passively (rainbowpattern, maelstrom). Whether or not you'll find them useful is a question only you can answer.
Earwort is the most annoying thing to deal with as a bard, especially when you're using aurics. I'm 80% sure that aurics are cured in the order they were applied, though, so it's good to remember what order you usually stick them. (Eat Earwort/Eat Horehound immediately after is the problem here).
Sakr2010-11-07 21:21:32
how about faeleaf? What is a good way to keep that down?
Xiel2010-11-07 21:36:55
If you want to keep faeleaf down, you stick afterimages with Flare. RainbowPatterns and HypnoticPatterns are your friends as a Glamourist especially as a Harbinger because of their lack of passive affs in comparison to other guilds. Work on sticking manabarbs on a person in Octave, but don't forget that egovice can help too when you start with the mana/ego draining. Build bleeding with a combination of BloodyCaps, ShadowPulse and active CrowCaws and it should tickle some when people try to clot with manabarbs up.
Furien2010-11-07 22:00:48
Compose Songname Stanza (7-9) Imbue Crowcaw
Perform Refrain Songname (target)
Repeat. Bonus points if you're in Octave and they're stuck with manabarbs.
Otherwise, go for a normal discordantchord/octave kill.
Perform Refrain Songname (target)
Repeat. Bonus points if you're in Octave and they're stuck with manabarbs.
Otherwise, go for a normal discordantchord/octave kill.
Sakr2010-11-07 22:34:33
@furien what is a normal discordant chord / octave kill?
Furien2010-11-07 22:51:33
QUOTE (Falcon @ Nov 7 2010, 02:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
@furien what is a normal discordant chord / octave kill?
Drop Octave in the room, perfectfifth the victim and make sure they stay undeaf (blanknote) at all times.
Afflict with manabarbs/egovice/achromatic aura, hit them with Discordantchord.
Minorsecond once or twice afterwards and they'll usually die.
If this doesn't work, wait until you have 10p, do the above, except add in Powerspikes and then use the 8p Discordantchord. -That- should kill them.
Sakr2010-11-07 23:05:03
now octave and perfect fifth require me to be in the room. How about if I am gusted out, put to sleep, or something else. Would I need to restart the process all over again?
Lothringen2010-11-12 17:56:33
Gust is the most annoying thing you'll have to deal with as a bard. You can try using icewalls to stop it, but if someone really wants to escape (to the point where they do nothing but spam tumble for earwort, ignite/gust, etc.) - they will.
Octave drops immediately on movement, perfectfifth doesn't. I believe your target has to be deaf, move you, and move rooms before the perfectfifth drops, so if you get back fast enough, they'll still be fifth'd.
Octave drops immediately on movement, perfectfifth doesn't. I believe your target has to be deaf, move you, and move rooms before the perfectfifth drops, so if you get back fast enough, they'll still be fifth'd.
Raeri2010-11-14 00:05:42
P5th just requires the victim to manage to move rooms to clear, regardless of how they manage to do it (gustgustgustwithbrokensummonresistance, or the proper earwort/run way).
