Bard - Opening Rotation and basics video guide to keep your DPS high and consistent

[Truefaith87]

I tend to open in a different order, open with quelling for secuirty reasons, 3-in-1 macro (ME/BL/SS) which fires off bloodletter to put it on CD, then fires SS, use raging, wind,flaming + IR, ven bite, hawks, heavy, B4B, heavy/proc, barrage, heavy/proc, continue with BL/HS/procs until 5sec left on wind, SS reapply, put back up DOTs, resume usual spamming skills, and keep working CDs as they come up to keep DPS level through the fight. Tend to save my invig for a specificl point too, once you reach 500-540 TP so its back up once i reach a critical low again.

[Anias]

He's not BiS at all and gear isn't that big of a modifier in damage as other classes so you guys would be equal probably. The thing about his parse is he does that damage over the entire fight. I don't consolidate any of the instances as I have the encounter culling set to 18, which in theory would actually DECREASE the total DPS as there are instances where you aren't hitting anything but the DPS numbers are still decreasing. It took us 9:57 to kill twintania that's why yours is 11 min long and mines only 9:57, we killed it 1 minute faster. Fold is definitely the best bard on the server alongside another named Lauren Miller, and I would go as far as to say he's definitely a top 10 bard in the US, he's very good at his job. You still hold your own very well though and am impressed.

My guide and opening rotation are more for newer players and players who are a bit at a loss , it makes it easy to manage buffs, dots, and cooldowns until they can figure something out for themselves.

[xEscaflownex]

The only time you aren't dealing damage is during the first set of divebombs, and the few second gap between Asclepius dying and twin coming down for aethertic perfusion, so just don't see why your parse is only showing 5:49/9:57 uptime, when the amount of time you spend not attacking something is about 50 seconds, that leaves a strange 3 minutes missing.

[Anias]

We killed the boss insanely fast, it was the fastest kill I had been in, if that counts for anything. Otherwise I'm not sure what else I can tell you. Our dps is actually high enough to kill a 2 stack snake as well so maybe our DPS is just really high I don't know.

[Timebomb]

The only time you aren't dealing damage is during the first set of divebombs, and the few second gap between Asclepius dying and twin coming down for aethertic perfusion, so just don't see why your parse is only showing 5:49/9:57 uptime, when the amount of time you spend not attacking something is about 50 seconds, that leaves a strange 3 minutes missing.

Chances are the parse was doctored or merged incorrectly. I've seen a TON of Twin parses that were merged because the fight was split, and the time always added up.

I'm not calling out the OP or anything - in fact I actually watch + enjoy your stream and know what you are capable of. Just the screenshot from your FC member doesn't seem to add up (the timestamps, certain ACT columns were left out/not included, etc.)

[Anias]

Chances are the parse was doctored or merged incorrectly. I've seen a TON of Twin parses that were merged because the fight was split, and the time always added up.

I'm not calling out the OP or anything - in fact I actually watch + enjoy your stream and know what you are capable of. Just the screenshot from your FC member doesn't seem to add up (the timestamps, certain ACT columns were left out/not included, etc.)

Sweet I really appreciate you watching the stream <3 . But for the parse I dunno TBH it could have just been set incorrectly or something like Timebomb said. I just asked him and he said that everything is set to default and he just highlighted the All selection and used that.