Bard Endgame - Suggestions and Strategies

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

The good thing about Rain of Death is that you do not need to be near the target to shoot it.

BUT if a bard does decide to run in and whisper sweet melodies in the enemy's ear, they can use Repelling Shot to bounce out again.

Repelling Shot is also independent of the global cooldown timer, so you can use it like Bloodletter. (e.g. Heavy Shot/Straight Shot -> Bloodletter -> Repelling Shot within a 3 second window).

[Clavaat]

The good thing about Rain of Death is that you do not need to be near the target to shoot it.

BUT if a bard does decide to run in and whisper sweet melodies in the enemy's ear, they can use Repelling Shot to bounce out again.

Repelling Shot is also independent of the global cooldown timer, so you can use it like Bloodletter. (e.g. Heavy Shot/Straight Shot -> Bloodletter -> Repelling Shot within a 3 second window).

This is actually a very important note. You can essentially cancel moves that aren't on a Global Cooldown with ones that are, while still being able to get the damage off. The animation may not fully render, but you are getting the hits. This is helpful when deciding on a rotation, maximizing damage.

[savant07]

At level 50 with some level 50 gear, how often does your River of Blood (bloodletter reset CD procs)?

[Viridiana]

i suggest invert straight shot and bloodletter.

But then your Bloodletter doesn't get the Straight Shot buff.

At level 50 with some level 50 gear, how often does your River of Blood (bloodletter reset CD procs)?

Hard to say for certain without parsing or something (yay RNG). I've had it not proc over a full 18 seconds, and I've had it proc 6 times in 18 seconds. So, yeah. . .

[savant07]

But then your Bloodletter doesn't get the Straight Shot buff.



Hard to say for certain without parsing or something (yay RNG). I've had it not proc over a full 18 seconds, and I've had it proc 6 times in 18 seconds. So, yeah. . .

wow 6 times in 18 seconds...that would be pretty fun to see and make combat so much more...active kind of. Guess it'll only go up further as our gear goes up as it scales with crit. Do archers/bards get really good crits later on? Like can we stack it more than other classes?

[Demikun]

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Ah and what are the caps for each stat?
I heard they have a cap?
Due to maintenance i can't post my current stats.
I know my crit is something about 400 (even thought i don't know howmuch %chance this is supposed to be)

Stat wise i were aiming for that:
Crit > Dex > Accuracy > Determination > vit > Skill Speed > anything else

@LunarEmerald
U use ur buff macro with a wait timer, doesn't limit u alot? Since u can't use anything else until ur buffmacro done his whole job?
Might be better to bind the buffs on ur attack macro, if there aren't any boss mechanics which need immense burst at a certain short amount of time.

S

[LunarEmerald]

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Ah and what are the caps for each stat?
I heard they have a cap?
Due to maintenance i can't post my current stats.
I know my crit is something about 400 (even thought i don't know howmuch %chance this is supposed to be)

Stat wise i were aiming for that:
Crit > Dex > Accuracy > Determination > vit > Skill Speed > anything else

@LunarEmerald
U use ur buff macro with a wait timer, doesn't limit u alot? Since u can't use anything else until ur buffmacro done his whole job?
Might be better to bind the buffs on ur attack macro, if there aren't any boss mechanics which need immense burst at a certain short amount of time.

S

If do an action while the macro is going, it'll immediately stop. Manual input always has priority.

[Rosencranz]

The good thing about Rain of Death is that you do not need to be near the target to shoot it.

BUT if a bard does decide to run in and whisper sweet melodies in the enemy's ear, they can use Repelling Shot to bounce out again.

Repelling Shot is also independent of the global cooldown timer, so you can use it like Bloodletter. (e.g. Heavy Shot/Straight Shot -> Bloodletter -> Repelling Shot within a 3 second window).

Repelling shot is mostly situational, like Shadowbind. They are great skills, but as far as i saw, in endgame dungeons (wanderer palace, amdapor keep) and in primals fights aren't used so much. Saying that, i do understand that those are really useful in a lot of situations.

So thanks for the advice, really.