Bard Endgame - Suggestions and Strategies

[Demikun]

@Rosencranz
what do u mean with oc?

also have someone any deeper details on those stat caps? Or soft caps? (do soft caps exist?)

[Kixx]

None of the macros that put in bloodletter and misery's end in with venomous or heavy seem to work.

Are you people spam pressing your abilities or just pressing it once like a normal person? Because pressing it once certainly does not trigger multiple attacks.

[PandaTaru]

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I didn't test them yet, but yes it's most likely pushing the same button more than once to activate all of them.
The hierarchy for:

/ac "Misery's End" <t>
/ac "Bloodletter" <t>
/ac "Heavy Shot" <t>

is, you press once; if "misery's end" is up, it starts this action, if Bloodletter is up but misery isn't up, it launch BloodLetter, and if none of these two actions are up it launch heavy shot that's on the GCD (Global Cooldown).

The other thing if you plan to make macro spam/rotation with abilities on the GCD, like somebody mentioned in another thread about macro; the /wait command doesn't seem to take .5 value anymore and rounds everything to the upper or lower value. 2.5 seconds becomes 3 seconds, and/or 2.4 becomes 2 seconds.

[Rosencranz]

@Viridiana: strange, i assure you that there's no time wasted in that rotation ò.ò'' maybe is a matter of pratice, dunno. For the aggro there's no problem: while i buff myself tank is getting aggro, when i finished buffing myself tank - if able, and our fc one is <3 - had enough enmity to lemme spam all my attacks. But as i suggested before, try and see :3

@NintenPyjak64: uh. Those are really good macros ò.ò being a ps3 player i tried to maximize my slots to be faster than possible - as fast as killing the first boss of amdapor keep in 6 minutes *-*''', and to doing a run in 17.56 mins *O*°°° - but those seems to be a nice addendum. I can't say anything for those, except for one thing, more a suggestion than a real "to do": Blood for Blood is nice. It is, really. But there're some bosses - like demon wall, or Garuda HM - that have a lot of attacks, that may cause you to be hit a lot of times.

[Rosencranz]

@NintenPyjak64, part2: Blood for Blood works well when we have a lot of space for moving, so we can avoid all the nasty stuffs. In enclosed spaces, is more a suicidal move that +25% damage received. Is a lot of stress for the healer - drg have better def than us, they can take more hits - while, another skills is more useful: Mantra. I plan to level monk to 42 to taking that. Should be a nice addendum to help healer. Also, on a side note: if healer had a +20% healing potency, use less mp. So we don't need to spam immediatly our songs. So Mantra can be a nice solution to save that -20% damage debuff from songs imho.

@Demikun: uh, sorry, bad language e.e oc: of course. And for those soft caps, i'm still searching and testing, hope to have some detailed info soon :3

[Rosencranz]

@Kixx: sounds strange, but almost yes. The utility of that macro is that after the debuffs hits, you can simply continue pressing a single button to do the faster attack available, and so on. No need to destroy your wrists, or such. Is a "lazy" macro, actually. But saves a lot of time.

@Pandataru: strange, i noticed a little change in velocity putting 2.5 instead of 3 ò_o maybe i'll do some more testing, but thanks for lettin me know that. ò_O meh.

Hope, again, to be of some help :3

[NintenPyjak64]

I've subbed Mantra before and the increased heal potency was only 5% not 20%. Plus the range on it's very small so I was running up to the melee group to use it (at the time I didn't have repelling shot so that wasn't an option)

[Rosencranz]

I've subbed Mantra before and the increased heal potency was only 5% not 20%. Plus the range on it's very small so I was running up to the melee group to use it (at the time I didn't have repelling shot so that wasn't an option)

uh, nice to hear that. °-° got some wrong info then. Still, you've tried BfB in a primal battle or with bosses with lot of aoe attacks? any info would be good. Usually i avoid skills that tend to make me more "glass cannon" than already are.

[NintenPyjak64]

uh, nice to hear that. °-° got some wrong info then. Still, you've tried BfB in a primal battle or with bosses with lot of aoe attacks? any info would be good. Usually i avoid skills that tend to make me more "glass cannon" than already are.

I'll be totally honest, I just mindlessly click my buffs. I WANT to say it works well but it's foggy at best. Which is why I'm asking for advice on when to use said buffs as well

[Viridiana]

@Viridiana: strange, i assure you that there's no time wasted in that rotation ò.ò'' maybe is a matter of pratice, dunno. For the aggro there's no problem: while i buff myself tank is getting aggro, when i finished buffing myself tank - if able, and our fc one is <3 - had enough enmity to lemme spam all my attacks. But as i suggested before, try and see :3

I like how you completely ignored my second point about needing an entire GCD before even getting a chance for RoB to proc.