Bard Tome idea . . maybe

[Stonewalljack]

I was thinking with the recent removal of ac/ds from PoT4, that maybe we could have class tomes that compensated. For example, you could call the ds one jagged melody, and have it add 3-4 ds to each song in our melody, so on a raid with 2 bards you would add 12-16 ds. If it was possible to do this at all, you could do similar things with ac, dr or whatever. It would increase the power of our songs without nailing us down to one song like with the past PoT4. Just a thought.

 

[Thade]

Eh. A raw ac/ds song would be a much preferable solution; It'd give a useful song to use for tanks (which other than hymn nothing really exists)

 

[Rorne]

Eh. A raw ac/ds song would be a much preferable solution; It'd give a useful song to use for tanks (which other than hymn nothing really exists)

OR, could slap some AC on Song of the Murk

 

[metvayne1]

This would be bad for situations where you do not want a DS

 

[Thade]

OR, could slap some AC on Song of the Murk

if the ds was bigger I'd agree!!

 

[Salarus]

I still think more AC/DS should be added to what I believe is Blademaster? which already has a DS component. Maybe we'd see it more often in groups then O.O

 

[Rorne]

I've been sort of hoping that with all the needed song changes to tone down the gross bard abilities we might actually see some cool development regarding bard stacking/poor selection of songs to play but it doesn't look like it's going to happen any time soon. At least we got cures back.

 

[Thade]

I've been sort of hoping that with all the needed song changes to tone down the gross bard abilities we might actually see some cool development regarding bard stacking/poor selection of songs to play but it doesn't look like it's going to happen any time soon. At least we got cures back.

Really two bards is pretty awesome (aside from the fact the second bards dps is total crap) and there are plenty of beneficial songs for two. But really detrimental dps selection is poor for the second bard. And a third bard means everyone is playing group songs pretty much which isn't terrible but still not enough decent detrimentals to go around.

Also I really wish the ac on mots would get removed and the mana cost reduced/removed, or the ac amount increased. At the moment it's like... (18*2.3)/3 ac at most and that's what 15.6 ac? negligble amounts at the mana cost meaning it's still only use is to play for spell damage that can be reduced.

 

[Stonewalljack]

So I understand when playing the same detrimental song, they overwrite each other. Is there anyway to tweak the code so that something else would happen instead? Such as when one bard applies the relic dot to a mob that is already affected by the dot from another bard, some sort of DD effect would occur.