So ive been leveling a skald lately (currently lvl45) and saw the frontpage talking about implementing old ras. I took a look at them and it seems that skalds looses all their toys with old ras.
What will happen to them in rvr after the changes? Will they still be needed if alone for speed song?
I would really hate to have to stop playing this class cause i really like it, but if im gonna be useless in rvr whats the point?
Thoughts?

Lemor wrote:So ive been leveling a skald lately (currently lvl45) and saw the frontpage talking about implementing old ras. I took a look at them and it seems that skalds looses all their toys with old ras.
What will happen to them in rvr after the changes? Will they still be needed if alone for speed song?
I would really hate to have to stop playing this class cause i really like it, but if im gonna be useless in rvr whats the point?
Thoughts?

Skalds suck even now, unless they are high rr and know how to play skald(which most don't, even the high rr ones). With old RA's I wouldn't count on them being good for group.

In optimized RvR they'll blow. That said there's no way of knowing if old RA's will come anytime soon (they first announced them 2-3 years ago). Since you're alrdy 45 you should just finish those last few levels to be fair.

Maidrion wrote:In optimized RvR they'll blow. That said there's no way of knowing if old RA's will come anytime soon (they first announced them 2-3 years ago). Since you're alrdy 45 you should just finish those last few levels to be fair.

Yep. Skald will still be fun for solo or duo with shaman.

Okay so not all hope is lost yet
Hopefully they will reconsider not implementing them as it breaks half of the classes that are already not that great .Anyone else think that a lot of players will leave one we get old ras?
Ill just use my skald for farming and doing raids while we still have aotg available, itll be hard to get everything since thid is going down tomorrow and i really need aotg2 for pve.
But i dont see how skalds will solo without ip/purge and sos

Lemor wrote:Okay so not all hope is lost yet
Hopefully they will reconsider not implementing them as it breaks half of the classes that are already not that great .Anyone else think that a lot of players will leave one we get old ras?

I'm guessing that, like when we got OF, we'll get a big influx of players in the short term that want to try them out. Then the glaring faults that the RA system has will become evident and it will calm down again. It's not going to kill the server, there's still too many people on this server that love the game, if not the server.

Lemor wrote:Ill just use my skald for farming and doing raids while we still have aotg available, itll be hard to get everything since thid is going down tomorrow and i really need aotg2 for pve.

If you really want to just make a PvE bot out of it, you really don't need that many realm levels. It's not like it's impossible to get RR3-4-5 outside of thid. There's quite some keep raiding rvr that's open for anyone.

Lemor wrote:But i dont see how skalds will solo without ip/purge and sos

You still get IP and purge and better than what they are now. They're just on such a stupidly long timer and you're forced to take First Aid 2 to get IP. So yeah if you win the whos-RAs-are-up coinflip you'll be fine solo.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040104093937/http://www.camelotherald.com/realmabilities/skald.html

This will give you an idea of what your skald can get with old RA's.

Raggnar wrote:

Maidrion wrote:In optimized RvR they'll blow. That said there's no way of knowing if old RA's will come anytime soon (they first announced them 2-3 years ago). Since you're alrdy 45 you should just finish those last few levels to be fair.

Yep. Skald will still be fun for solo or duo with shaman.

Skald/healer is also nice. Was great fun yesterday against 4 and 5 man stealther groups

Samaritu wrote:

Raggnar wrote:

Maidrion wrote:In optimized RvR they'll blow. That said there's no way of knowing if old RA's will come anytime soon (they first announced them 2-3 years ago). Since you're alrdy 45 you should just finish those last few levels to be fair.

Yep. Skald will still be fun for solo or duo with shaman.

Skald/healer is also nice. Was great fun yesterday against 4 and 5 man stealther groups

Y with endo pots and some charges skald is good for any duo, even with zerker or so.

depends more on sham/healer/whatever than on the skald : )

Galandriel2 wrote:depends more on sham/healer/whatever than on the skald : )

If you play the skald maybe

Old ra's won't be that bad for the skald. you'll actually be able to mez people with out them purging it everytime. and you get that nifty mastery of arms which increases your swing speed. people will still need speed 5 in groups too. oh and first aid 2 is actually a pretty good ra for skalds as you get to use it while your enemy is mezzed, or while you are kiting.

warlogy wrote:Old ra's won't be that bad for the skald. you'll actually be able to mez people with out them purging it everytime. and you get that nifty mastery of arms which increases your swing speed. people will still need speed 5 in groups too. oh and first aid 2 is actually a pretty good ra for skalds as you get to use it while your enemy is mezzed, or while you are kiting.

the force is strong with this one

he is the new skald fuhrer