bard performance "rant"

[Kyp]

Curious about the wording of record and share songs, does that mean they dont care what you play so long as you dont record it?

[NephthysVasudan]

System Configuration > Sound Settings > Player Effects Volume

It Atac....It Pwns...but it just Wins.

^_^

[Kakiko]

I haven't been in world yet to hear any of it, but I'm excited to. I actually just started leveling up Archer last week to try out Bard, not really realizing this sort of upgrade was coming to the class.

It's something new and shiny for people to play with; give it time and it'll slowly wane and dissipate. Let people enjoy themselves and if it bothers you that much, then turn off other sounds or blacklist them until such time that it fades away.

[ElasmoFan]

I do agree that we should have the option of turning it off ourselves because even if it tones down, there's still always going to be some people that just spam it when they have nothing better to do and I don't think having to turn off all sounds for other pcs should be the permanent solution to it. I agree it's a temporary one and that it should be used for now, but I do think the option in the future would be nice and IF it's easy enough to implement, then there is no reason why they shouldn't just give people the option. They've done it with other things, no reason not to here. It's not like it's turning it off for everyone. With that being said if for any reason it's actually not a simple way to do it then yeah, it's not that big of a deal to put too much time into but if it's easy enough, no reason not to.

[DiamondOrion]

You can utilize the hotbar storage of unused classes (for example Archer) and use a macro to swap between them. For example, the following macro swaps hotbars 1-3 between Archer and Bard (using Lancer's hotbar #1 as a buffer):

/hotbar copy brd 1 lnc 1
/hotbar copy arc 1 brd 1
/hotbar copy lnc 1 arc 1
/hotbar copy brd 2 lnc 1
/hotbar copy arc 2 brd 2
/hotbar copy lnc 1 arc 2
/hotbar copy brd 3 lnc 1
/hotbar copy arc 3 brd 3
/hotbar copy lnc 1 arc 3

Executing it once will swap out your BRD 1-3 bars for your ARC 1-3 bars. Then you can set up your performance actions on them. Executing once more will swap back, storing your performance actions on ARC and bringing back your BRD combat actions. Obviously you can modify the macro for whatever bars you want to use.

This is kool thank you. I tried it and it works wonderfully

[Veemi]

Maybe someone with knowhow knows...

Could it work to connect an USB-Piano-Keyboard with the PC and use these additional keys to bind them with the right notes? Has anybody tried that out yet? I have nothing like that and never used an piano-keyboard so sorry if this question seems stupid. I'm just curious.

[InkstainedGwyn]

Maybe someone with knowhow knows...

Could it work to connect an USB-Piano-Keyboard with the PC and use these additional keys to bind them with the right notes? Has anybody tried that out yet? I have nothing like that and never used an piano-keyboard so sorry if this question seems stupid. I'm just curious.

Supposedly folks have been doing this, yes, though I haven't tried it myself.

[Bongaboi]

I wonder if its going to get removed eventually. I'm going to bet its only a matter of time until SE gets sued by Metallica or some other over zealous "defender" of music rights as well.

........who?

[Krotoan]

Sigh..... bard performance is cool and all but there is one fatal flaw that was forgotten in the patch and this one

An OPTION in settings to turn off performances from other players

Its annoying to be going to lominsa and got several bard plucking at there harps

So please SE make optional setting for other players who do not want to listen to bards performance

Thanks in advance

yes.. YES YES YES YES... oh god. Starting cities right now: ..

"plonk... plonk plonk.. pling... pling plonk pling PLONKITTYPLINGBLOOOP!" X 10

I get I can turn off EVERYTHING but I don't wanna hear NOTHING.. just no more people facerolling musical notes.

[LaurieB]

PLONK PLONK PLONK PLONK PLONK..PLING PLING PLING PLING PLING PLING PLING...Master of puppets I’m pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams!! Blinded by me, you can’t see a thing! MASTER...MASTER...*runs away* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnKhsTXoKCI