Seenon
02-19-2007, 11:00 PM
Hey everyone,
So this last weekend I went from 29 to 31. Looking forward to getting into the 30's with the addition of some higher dps and songs that would add to my DPS.
Well to my dismay as I went grinding through these levels I find out that Fox overtakes the Hair.. is no longer on vendors. I also find that we are missing quite a few of our song components that use to be available during beta. Again the songs that are missing were never said to have been removed.
At the moment im not at home but I am going to try and list what I can remember.
Fox overtakes the Hair -- already mentioned this one
Chorus of Stamina
Now for other items I see at level 31
Asilam's Disenchanting Strain
Component: Lyric
Instrument: Voice
Energy Consumed:
Removes enchantment effects over time from a friendly target.
This skill although I was hoping was going to be a ton of help turns out that it has changed with no notification.. It says in the description now in game that it will remove 1 buff. Although I have tried using this sooooooo many times.. pvp.. pve.. It does not work. I would have loved this to work as the original description would have suggested as it would actually make it usefull. It also says in this discription that its friendly target.. although it offensive target. Which i believe it was ment to be that way.
Haste song components - This here is more of a opinion from my standpoint but I hope it gains some ears just as much as the others. Our haste songs truly dont seem to have much of a benifit while in a group setting with the current haste cap. 25% haste can be reached way prior to us even deciding to throw up a song at this level. It then becomes a song which is only usefull when not buffed and not in a group.
Ariezel's Dirge of Doom
Component: Verse
Instrument: Brass
Energy Consumed:
Deals arcane damage over time to all opponents nearby. (~48 damage / 6 sec)
This and all the other AOE song components we had were changed to be only offensive target. The damage output of them now on same level mobs seems more to be what it should have been when it was aoe.. but now.. its pointless.
The above then also brings out another issue with another song component. With that change the song
Fasant's Chant of Corruption
Component: Verse
Instrument: Percussion
Energy Consumed:
Deals physical damage over time to your opponent.
which fills the same spot as the Dirge of Doom becomes useless.. for one the damage on this is 6-9 damage while wearing a 2.0 mod instrument.. working as intended?? I doubt it.
I didnt notice the change from the AOE song components for quite a long time untill I decided to give the old school aoe bard run run run aoe a try. After trying over and over and wounder why I was doing no damage to the mobs around me except the one I had targeted.. then read the new description in game.. and boy.. this went overlooked by me and probally the whole bard community because no one use it to begin with.
I would bring up the healing and engergy regen songs again.. although I think these are currently being looked into.
On a positive note I see that the latest patch has truly helped out our DPS at higher levels and with the change to str and dex will have incresing benifits over higher levels... Which I am happy for since it had seemed I had been doing the same damage from lvl 15 - 29.
Again to the bad side of things.. Our defensive songs/Rune songs.. Even while solo I have not found a use for these. Solo im eaither Marching the Mire.. or trying to just outdp the mob till it drops.
I get hit way to much and for way to much damage to see a usefullness of this song. In a group the amount the rune applys to the group is a joke.. Even with a 2.0 mod instrument the amount is laughable. With all components stacked as a rune / defense song the tank gains somewhere around 100 ac. and 150-200 defense. The rune is somewhere around 10-20. I dont have the exact stats on this because I am not at home atm. 100-120 AC although may not be horrid is not good enough to see the difference. Take off the instrument and you get barly over 80. Now although it may not be horrible the difference is in the amount of dps you loose while the song is on.
BLa bla bla .. Ive tried to get this point out over and over again.. Elrar responds with the .. either the songs are being composed wrong or the look forward to epic 3.0 isntruments at level 50 and see the benifit.
I cant see why we should have to suffer through a ton of song components that have no use at the lower levels to wait and see if they become not quite as useless in the latter levels.
On a side note as well.. why do we get yet another invis song at higher levels. Our current invis song is already very good and I dont see the purpose of a higher level one. I guess maby things start seeing through our current one? At this point I have only found 1 mob that can see through our invis.. (CLAWBEAST --- Argh I hate them).
I am having a good time playing my bard I just wish that I could see some use out of all those other components that are now littering my songbook. I would love to see the missing songs/skills get put back onto the vendor as well. My bread and butter level 30 skill is MIA...
Seenon Songblade
31 Bard - Shadow Consortium
Tharridon
(This is a repost from the VGBard forums -- this board tends to get more traffic)
So this last weekend I went from 29 to 31. Looking forward to getting into the 30's with the addition of some higher dps and songs that would add to my DPS.
Well to my dismay as I went grinding through these levels I find out that Fox overtakes the Hair.. is no longer on vendors. I also find that we are missing quite a few of our song components that use to be available during beta. Again the songs that are missing were never said to have been removed.
At the moment im not at home but I am going to try and list what I can remember.
Fox overtakes the Hair -- already mentioned this one
Chorus of Stamina
Now for other items I see at level 31
Asilam's Disenchanting Strain
Component: Lyric
Instrument: Voice
Energy Consumed:
Removes enchantment effects over time from a friendly target.
This skill although I was hoping was going to be a ton of help turns out that it has changed with no notification.. It says in the description now in game that it will remove 1 buff. Although I have tried using this sooooooo many times.. pvp.. pve.. It does not work. I would have loved this to work as the original description would have suggested as it would actually make it usefull. It also says in this discription that its friendly target.. although it offensive target. Which i believe it was ment to be that way.
Haste song components - This here is more of a opinion from my standpoint but I hope it gains some ears just as much as the others. Our haste songs truly dont seem to have much of a benifit while in a group setting with the current haste cap. 25% haste can be reached way prior to us even deciding to throw up a song at this level. It then becomes a song which is only usefull when not buffed and not in a group.
Ariezel's Dirge of Doom
Component: Verse
Instrument: Brass
Energy Consumed:
Deals arcane damage over time to all opponents nearby. (~48 damage / 6 sec)
This and all the other AOE song components we had were changed to be only offensive target. The damage output of them now on same level mobs seems more to be what it should have been when it was aoe.. but now.. its pointless.
The above then also brings out another issue with another song component. With that change the song
Fasant's Chant of Corruption
Component: Verse
Instrument: Percussion
Energy Consumed:
Deals physical damage over time to your opponent.
which fills the same spot as the Dirge of Doom becomes useless.. for one the damage on this is 6-9 damage while wearing a 2.0 mod instrument.. working as intended?? I doubt it.
I didnt notice the change from the AOE song components for quite a long time untill I decided to give the old school aoe bard run run run aoe a try. After trying over and over and wounder why I was doing no damage to the mobs around me except the one I had targeted.. then read the new description in game.. and boy.. this went overlooked by me and probally the whole bard community because no one use it to begin with.
I would bring up the healing and engergy regen songs again.. although I think these are currently being looked into.
On a positive note I see that the latest patch has truly helped out our DPS at higher levels and with the change to str and dex will have incresing benifits over higher levels... Which I am happy for since it had seemed I had been doing the same damage from lvl 15 - 29.
Again to the bad side of things.. Our defensive songs/Rune songs.. Even while solo I have not found a use for these. Solo im eaither Marching the Mire.. or trying to just outdp the mob till it drops.
I get hit way to much and for way to much damage to see a usefullness of this song. In a group the amount the rune applys to the group is a joke.. Even with a 2.0 mod instrument the amount is laughable. With all components stacked as a rune / defense song the tank gains somewhere around 100 ac. and 150-200 defense. The rune is somewhere around 10-20. I dont have the exact stats on this because I am not at home atm. 100-120 AC although may not be horrid is not good enough to see the difference. Take off the instrument and you get barly over 80. Now although it may not be horrible the difference is in the amount of dps you loose while the song is on.
BLa bla bla .. Ive tried to get this point out over and over again.. Elrar responds with the .. either the songs are being composed wrong or the look forward to epic 3.0 isntruments at level 50 and see the benifit.
I cant see why we should have to suffer through a ton of song components that have no use at the lower levels to wait and see if they become not quite as useless in the latter levels.
On a side note as well.. why do we get yet another invis song at higher levels. Our current invis song is already very good and I dont see the purpose of a higher level one. I guess maby things start seeing through our current one? At this point I have only found 1 mob that can see through our invis.. (CLAWBEAST --- Argh I hate them).
I am having a good time playing my bard I just wish that I could see some use out of all those other components that are now littering my songbook. I would love to see the missing songs/skills get put back onto the vendor as well. My bread and butter level 30 skill is MIA...
Seenon Songblade
31 Bard - Shadow Consortium
Tharridon
(This is a repost from the VGBard forums -- this board tends to get more traffic)