Extended Range for Bards

[Foma]

Do extended range items affect bardsong range ?
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Itso - Bard

 

[Nuralia]

No, no focus effect items affect bard songs.

 

[karm100fists]

... or else bards could twist 8 songs at once... /drool.

 

[Gwendelyn]

.....how does that make them able to twist 8 songs at once? :brow:

 

[rab]

I think he's getting at duration increment increasing the length of the songs, thus being able to twist more than three or four.

 

[Gwendelyn]

Still impossible to get more than maybe with optimal connection and lag free server more than 5 if the focus effects worked for bards.

 

[Ciaran]

You can twist five just normal if you do it right, I haven't played a bard in ages but I was doing that on a regular basis. It just takes the hotkeys to be set up right and for you to concentrate completely on it.

 

[Gwendelyn]

Im saying its impossible because the duration of a bard song is 18 seconds or 3 ticks. The recast on a bard song is 3 sec along with a 3 sec casting time. ie lag free with the last song dropping ans the 5th song is coming up with no lag at all.

 

[Foonie]

Im saying its impossible because the duration of a bard song is 18 seconds or 3 ticks. The recast on a bard song is 3 sec along with a 3 sec casting time. ie lag free with the last song dropping ans the 5th song is coming up with no lag at all.

Well, from describing you could twist 6 songs?
Song 1) 3 sec cast time - last 18 sec
Song 2) 3 sec cast time - 1) 15 sec left, 2) 18 sec left
Song 3) 3 sec cast - 1) 12 sec, 2) 15 sec, 3) 18 sec
Song 4) 3 sec cast - 1) 9 sec, 2) 12 sec, 3) 15 sec, 4) 18 sec
Song 5) 3 sec cast - 1) 6 sec, 2) 9 sec, 3) 12 sec, 4) 15 sec, 5) 18 sec
Song 6) 3 sec cast - 1) 3 sec, 2) 6 sec, 3) 9 sec, 4) 12 sec, 5) 15 sec, 6) 18 sec
Recast song 1

And then start from the top.

Unless you mean 3sec recast time as in 3 seconds before you can cast another bard song (not just the one you have currently cast). Since I've never playd a bard, I don't know.

 

[Bella]

many twists can be set up on macro keys as well using /cast # and /pause etc.

lag can break the twists if the timeing tries to be too exact.

some songs require to be clicked off adding to complexity of some twists


easiest is to set buttons for 1,2,3,4 and keep your left hand on those number keys and just get into a pattern (warning: may cause carpal tunnel syndrome)

 

[Foma]

Sorta dead topic, but since the interest in bardsong appears constant - let me throw in the following tidbit:

bardsong on WR isn't like live, in the the client and the server get out-of-sync quite often. It is caused by lag, of course, but somehow the live servers account for this better.

You can begin to sing a song and the spellcast window pops up and then disappears long before the cast is done. And yet when that window goes away you do not yet have the song effect on you. In these instances you simply have to watch the spell text msg and start your next song after you see the effect on.

Moreover, lets say you begin to sing song 1. You see the spellcast window popup and then go away early. In your mind, you know it's lag and that if you wait a moment the song effect msg will show up. So you say to yourself, I'll just go ahead and start singing song 2. You will sing the spell/song msg "you begin to sing x" but when the spellcast window finishes properly, you'll see the effect for song 1.

So in all cases, you have to trust the song effect msgs, not the spellcast window.

 

[Reverb]

Bard

Aye, I encountered the spell casting window flakiness last night (I just started on this server). It made twisting several songs tough, but I sort of got used to it. I'd love to see this on the list of things to "fix", as it would make being a bard much easier.

~Reverb