A couple of bard questions.

Hajjaj

Dalayan Beginner
First of all, when i logged on today and attmpted to run through centaur hills, I noticed was able to cast Selos once and then every time it would refresh it would say Your song does not take hold. It would continue like this untill Selos stopped then it cast itself again. I timed it out and it came out to be about 20 seconds of Selos and then about 4 seconds of slow running before selos would recast itself. I wondered if this is an intentional feature and if so why? Or is there something im just doing wrong.

Secondly does the Specialize skill Energy/Defence, the one that increases damage on spells and dots as well as Amounts on healing spells, effect bard songs. At level 10 i dumped 100 points into this with no apparent change in my Chordes of dissoncence damage.
 
If I am not mistaken, you will not see the added damage on DoTs because of the timing.

Also, for lower end spells, you more than likely wont notice much effect. For example, with probably around 100 points or so in that specialization, I noticed that my Chaotic Feedback increased from 48 points to 49 per cast.
 
I'm speculating that the song won't take hold is a bug that just happened today when they patched to fix the boats. Normally bard songs refresh just fine and they were acting normal just before the patch.

As for the dot and specialization, Yes, it does increase damage. I'ts about a 10% increase in dot damage at spec lvl 250. So if you've dumped 100 points into it so far you are probably seeing about a 4% increase I'm guessing.

Lets say your chords is doing 10pts of damage (and I'm guessing its doing less) 10 + (10x.04) = 10.4 points of damage and I'm guessing it rounds down to 10 so you aren't seeing any increase right now. Give it a few levels and some more powerful dot songs and you should start to notice it.
 
dbum said:
If I am not mistaken, you will not see the added damage on DoTs because of the timing.

You will indeed see the added damage on the dot msgs. Just an FYI so you young bards know what to expect.
 
aaburog said:
dbum said:
If I am not mistaken, you will not see the added damage on DoTs because of the timing.

You will indeed see the added damage on the dot msgs. Just an FYI so you young bards know what to expect.

So is this for bards or all classes (I would assume all - just want to be certain)? I don't use my DoTs too much with my enchanter and I just remember that when the new spec set was released - DoTs were affected but the added damage was not shown in the message.
 
Wiz said:
I will fix this bug ASAP.

Thanks Wiz. <3

I just logged in for the first time today and encountered the "nonrefreshing" song bug. It made twisting much much trickier.
 
all fixed up

yeah i faced that horrible bug last night... i logged on a few minutes ago and everything was fixed... i petitioned it last night when i first encountered bug.... but had to log shortly there after because of issues with the bug... i just waited it out and logged on a few minutes ago and bam everything was fixed up... thanks wiz...

as a bard i notice i dont really use chords or any of the damage dealing songs that much so i put most of my specialty points in blade/strike or blunt/avoidance....
 
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