Hi,

I started a bard today and I want to make a mostly solo-RvR char.

33 Nurture (Speed 4, Endu 4)
44 Music (last insta DD)
35 Blades (uber dmg )
9 Regrowth (Cure Disease, Poison)

Anyone tried a battle bard ?
I think it will be stronger with OF RAs.

Good luck. Battle bard failed on live and will here too

No they didn't fail on live in of, at least with high rr.

They fail with nf ras but should be playable with old ones. Tempted to try it also.

With charge gone a bard should kill all tanks easily by kiting them. Don´t need any fancy spec there. Palas should be possible too. Would take ages tho.
Most hybrids/healers will prolly be a tie.

Casters are just free rps to a bard.

A stealther is pretty certain death unless you insta mezz and run away.


The bards spec is pretty irrelevant in any matchup. Allthough a melee spec bard might beat the ****** out of a hunter in straight melee.

if you rly wanna be battle bard 23 in nurture could be enough, and you could boost blades to 40 and the rest in regrowth with the remaining points. (just a suggestion)

the only thing i would change is blunt spec and firbolg race, already played melee bard in brae and wilton and was awesome, had about 100 solo kills, in thid and emain is kinda hard considering almost none goes solo there.

is possible to kill more than solos in brae and wilton tho

CalvoHP wrote:is possible to kill more than solos in brae and wilton tho

No it's not, I did it with my firby battlebard...

Hell if 4/8 people in a fg didn't purge my blanket mezz (as a solo) I'd probably get a few of those down before the healers got outta mezz.

in wilton is a lot harder, but at least in brae was able to kill 1-4 players, guess it depends a lot on luck and enemies

for brae was 34 music, 25 blunt, 3 nurture, celt, only weapon crafted and s-c+endo reg pots... i had no clue about strafing back then.

Should be perfectly viable, especially OF (only class with AM). But as others have said, the question is if you will find lots of soloers etc. On our server we had a high rr battle bard back in the day, kicked some serious butt and was fun to duo with. But of course, not ideally suited for RvR groups with the lower speed etc. So you are choosing a lonely life

I think mostly stealthers.
The "Hymn of Body Protecting" works as a chant ?
26% body resists + 20% chant resists would be nice against DoT and DDs of Minstrel.

Lasastard wrote:Should be perfectly viable, especially OF (only class with AM).

How was the old RA working?
The new doesn't heal the user (as far as I remembered) - so it's pretty useless in solo RvR.

1. y the body-resist-aura is like a chant ... you dont need mana for keep it up

2. and the old melodies worked for the grp INCLUDING the user ... it healed every 1,5 sec with a duration of 30 sec, dunno excactly the value , heard it was about 250-300 /tick ...

check patchnotes of v. 1.67-1.69. i think they changed melodies in this patches to the "heal/1,5 sec tick"



greetings, dia