[PMB] Hikata's entry

Thursday, April 2nd 2015, 1:52pm

willyMG

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Posts: 9

Location: Croatia

[PMB] Hikata's entry

Introduction:

Hello, my name is Hikata and i'm a bard.

So I've been playing this class since the very beginning . I'm a senior officer in a guild called Legends (ISA) (hate that now we have 2 Legends in this game) ... My role as a bard is mostly DPS even tho bard is supposed to be a support class!

Even tho as a bard i experienced many changes through all the patches, it's still my favorite class. By playing bard you have so many options in this game. You can be mean PvP machine either if you chose single target, AoE or control build, bard is always dominating battlegrounds and arenas! Or you can choose peaceful PvE crab life and help your friends in parties and raids by, yet again, dominate the DPS charts :thumbsup:

But in conclusion any way you chose as a bard you wont be disappointed!

Now lets get to business...

6.0 Bard Changes:

In the latest patch bard didn't get many changes, but it got some new abilities and some fixes.

Ligirophobia - When control effect fades your target gets 25% damage reduction. I tested it and it's not working properly... Don't like it! :thumbdown:

Assonance - While you are playing Acoustic Barrier etude, Assonance effect is applied to all your party members within a 30 yard radius. The effect reflects 7/14/21% direct damage back on attackers.

This skill i like because I'm a big fan of Acoustic Barrier and this new rubies make it so much more OP! At the moment i'm not using it because i was a noob and i exchanged my gear too soon so i tired to make a build to maximize effectiveness of some other spells :thumbup:

Cacophony - Applies random control effects to all enemies within 20 yards radius for 2 seconds. Duration of the effect increases by 2 seconds per each enemy within 8 yard radius from the effected target but not more than 6s. Basically an AoE cc that effects a lot of ppl. Sounds OP right? Well its not! i hate it! :evil:

The cast time is too long, the cool down is too long. :thumbdown:

Some other changes are, Vigorous Tune rubies now allow you to cast and move at the same time but with some speed reduction (depending on rank), and Solo is finally doing same damage as dissonance/disharmony as it should!

6.0 PvE Build

So this is my PvE build. I wont make a long ass copy-paste explanation of every single talent and ruby, but i can tell you something abut my build and about my rotation. So the main problem for me on bard is the endless possibilities of combination of talents and rubies for any occasion (astral, raids... etc) and I don't have FoD so i have to do some compromises. :pinch:

This build is a combination AoE/single target build but its a bit more AoE orientated. It dispense of your game style... Till 6.0.1.3 fix im planning to do some changes and go for more shadow damage

(15% more shadow damage on r3) and more physical damage

(15% more physical damage)

Rotation:
AoE; With your Cantata

and Aria

on, you start with Timpani

+ Power Chord

after that you spam Timpani and Disharmony

till your energy allows you, and you pray for Exaltation

so you get some extra energy. you can get some extra energy by casting your Muse

if you have Melpomene rubies like i do. For some extra damage you can cast Shadow Duette

Single Target; With your Cantata

and Aria

on, you start with Flaying Blade

then you do Power Chord

after you cast Solo

which is followed by Muse

, then Raving Blade

... After this you reset your cd with Encore

and repeat the rotation.

This post has been edited 3 times, last edit by "willyMG" (Apr 2nd 2015, 2:52pm)

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Thursday, April 2nd 2015, 2:08pm

willyMG

Beginner

Posts: 9

Location: Croatia

6.0 PvP Build:

This is my PvP build yet again i have to say how much i would like FoD, because i did a lot of compromises to make this PvP;AoE build at least somewhat effective 1vs1 too.

I like this build because I made some balance between survivability, single target and AoE damage. the only thing I will change a bit later on is, that i will take Assonance rubies...

Rotation:
Here it gets a bit tricky... depending on situation like in PvE build you will have to adapt to a situation. This is mostly AoE build so in 1vs1 situation you depend mostly of spaming Disharmony

with few stacks of Power Chord

on a target and Raving

and Flying Blade

. One more useful spell you have is Overture

, which is really nice because of all the rubies i took. It dispels your target, slows it, gives you energy and heals you, i mean how cool is that!!

In AoE PvP you do as you r in PvE but you cast Overture and Muse to gain energy.

Songs of my choice in PvP are Cantata

and Nocturne

Some of my pre-patch screen-shots... ye, after patch came I rushed and switched my fabled gear with green... so I'm a bit ashamed of my current dps

but as i slowly gear up things are getting back to normal.

Summary:

I will finish kinda as i started... I've played bard since it was introduced to this game and I still like it a lot. And since 6.0 patch i love it even more because i became a priden. :love:

Bard class was changed a lot through all these years, form invincible force at the beginning, to irreplaceable support in astral.Whatever they change on this class it's just another fun challenge for me.

I'm looking forward to new changes and new challenges... Till then, see ya in game