Bard Issues

[Marchie]

Making this post in hopes these 2 issues could be looked at and hopefully fixed.

The first and most annoying problem is when if mid cast and our AA proc Sonic Strike goes off, it will interrupt whatever is being cast, this is horrible, sometimes making you have to cast one thing several times just for it to land once with how often our AA proc proc's, this can be pretty game breaking in some situations were you need to jolt something off asap but jolt won't land, or slowing, dispelling, pot4, mots, ect, and I don't think the solution to this is we should have to turn off autoattack whenever we need to do these things efficiently. I know this started when proc's were fixed, previously proc's wouldn't go off during casts, and I don't want to see them go back to how it was either, but maybe they could be coded in like a charged DB or something where if mid cast and the proc goes off, it would save the proc to go off after the cast was finished, I dunno just a thought there.

Second Issue is and has been brought up before too, is how the damage portion of Bard dot's do not stack, not really a whole lot to say about this issue, just that it would be nice if a work around to the resist's could be found to fix this, unless it's intended the way it is currently.

 

[Thade]

I support both of these. I Love sonic strike but holy crap if you get mezzed trying to get songs put back up is a massive bitch sometimes.

 

[rawfullemayo]

Yikes, I didn't know this, last I heard it was the opposite (although to me seemingly more tolerable) problem of songs interrupting innate procs:

http://shardsofdalaya.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20842

Is Sonic Blades worth it at this point if it interrupts songs like this, or should I hold off on purchasing it?

 

[Anti Eh]

its pretty annoying, ive def had to cast up to x4 times to get my new song to go thru while auto attacking

 

[Emerica]

^ what they said.

 

[Obscenitor]

Considering I did point out this as a reason for not changing sonic blades to be able to proc mid-cast in that other thread, I'm wondering who put this live at all :|

It was me. I did it.

 

[Cyzaine]

I put it in, since some people wanted it, and others didn't. Only way to know if it was worth the penaltys, was to put it in and let you guys try. So whats the consensus.

 

[Radaere]

I for one do not enjoy having a breastplate proc interrupt my spell casting. I'm guessing that issue is along the same lines as Sonic Blades?

 

[Cyzaine]

Is it actually interruption or just removing the casting bar.

 

[Radaere]

It doesn't say my spell is interrupted, but the casting bar drops and the spell just doesn't land. It happens regularly when I am soloing and healing myself with a bunch of junk beating on me.

 

[Marchie]

Not sure if breastplates do this, but I know weapon proc do not cause any problems.

As for whether this trade off is worth it, to me it definitely is not worth it, it'll be much better when songs stop getting interrupted by our AA proc, we will lose out on a bit of dps either way by our songs not landing or taking longer to finally land or missing out on potential AA proc's, but having songs land when you want is much more important.

Oh and I still have high hopes you amazing coders can figure out some kind of work around to this so us bards can have our cake and eat it too.

 

[Rrowrr]

I'm with Marchie on this one. Songs... thats my thing... my Song DoTs should take top priority when conflicting with Sonic Blades or any weapon/armor procs.

Frustrating having primary Class skill interrupted by secondary abilities.

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Only other little irritating thing is that Damage Increment gear generally doesn't increase DoT song damage as far as I can tell. Yeah, they often increase DD song damage, but how many Bards here every really find their DD's useful over their DoTs?

Otherwise I'm having a blast with my Bard here on SoD.

 

[Marchie]

Only other little irritating thing is that Damage Increment gear generally doesn't increase DoT song damage as far as I can tell. Yeah, they often increase DD song damage, but how many Bards here every really find their DD's useful over their DoTs?

Damage Increment doesn't increase our song damage because they are not spells, there song's, we have our own unique forms of Damage Increment for those. Also bards not utilizing there DD to the fullest are lazy/baddies.

 

[Emerica]

Yeah, the whole dd line of spells has so much to it i cant believe you wouldnt use it on a regular. I know people bot us and just afk thinking we dont do anything but damn show them whats up?

 

[Rrowrr]

Damage Increment doesn't increase our song damage because they are not spells, there song's, we have our own unique forms of Damage Increment for those. Also bards not utilizing there DD to the fullest are lazy/baddies.

That is true. But it would still be nice. Yes, I am lazy when it comes to using DD songs and stuff that make me work for my kills...

Yeah, the whole dd line of spells has so much to it i cant believe you wouldnt use it on a regular. I know people bot us and just afk thinking we dont do anything but damn show them whats up?

Hey, they made me quit using Two DoTs in raids because I keep stealing agro when all my damage capabilities really kick in and I crit a couple times... so why am I QQ ? I dunno...

... although it was kinda fun kicking in stance and finish-off tanking a raid mob the other night.

I guess I'm just lazy when I have to swap in my flute to use my Brusscos in the middle of a fight.

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Honestly, if I could affect any small changes, what would be nice is to be able to increase parry and riposte skill caps to improve damage mitigation just a bit.