Honestly if I had to make this decision, I would go Bard from Classic thru Vellious. If you don't want to raid and don't mind waiting until Luclin to have your day in the light, go Ranger. It's hard to get a group as DPS because your DPS is one of the lowest at the moment but come Luclin/POP, you will have your day! Because of this lack of knowledge, you'll have troubles getting groups. People still don't understand that rangers are great tanks in classic for leveling and very good tanks in kunark leveling also. Probably about equal in having troubles finding groups. The enchanter would still be king with their charm but the bard at least would give the group options. I really wish they would add the Luclin bard mez into Kunark because that would make a bard able to replace an Enchanter for CC. You end up being a puller from 45+ and from 55+ in kunark you really feel the pain of not being able to mez or charm anything you are fighting in a EXP group. (the raiding guild should have scales already and the trak guts drop off the instance and open trak now (they used to only drop off of the undead bard spawned trak on previous TLPs!)Īs folks have stated, the grouping situation is great up to level 45 but beyond that it gets tough. Now days, in a raiding guild, the bard epic is easy to get. I am one that likes to optimize myself in every situation so if someone in the raid can be doing 4% of the damage to a mob and they are sitting there afk, they are a waste of space IMO. The resist songs alone in a raiding situation will instantly get you into any guild you want.Ī good bard is better than a melody bot hands down. If your intent on this server is to get to raiding status and be a highly desired class throughout the progression of the server, I would say go bard. The chose between Ranger and Bard very much depends on your intents and personality. ![]() Wow, a lot of trash talk about the bard on here which is surprising to me. You'll struggle through a few expansions, but there is a big payoff in the end. As far as an investment in the future of what to play, it's ranger by a mile. Well.rangers are "ok" in classic, absolutely suck in Kunark, and then get better from there on out, and end up top of the heap at server lock. Honestly, if it wasn't for the resist song and stacking mana regen, it would literally be a useless class at 50 in classic. For what it's worth, I main a bard in a raiding guild lol. They seriously need to take a look at this class, and where and when the skills breakdown and make some changes. Bards are always a day late and a dollar short on Agnarr. This trend more or less continues for various expansions. A lot of songs don't stack with spells, that should. Your melee is worthless, you'll end up about 4% on a parse if you're lucky.Ħ. You use in raids is to melody resist and mana regen.ĥ. Once you are out of mana, you won't have it back for at least an hour.Ĥ. Charm uses mana, and bard mana regen is another one of those 'what the hell are they thinking' things. Songs don't effect pets or charms, and they never will on this server (GoD AA)ģ. Here are the problems with bards, in no particular order:Ģ. You are completely worthless in the end game classic dungeon that everyone wants to run, the hole. Enchanters are already better in every possible way than a bard other than run speed, but the cliff you fall off at level 45 is just horrible. The fact that bard mez doesn't work on mobs over level 45 is just flat out stupid. ![]() Then you hit level 45, and you absolutely suck. You make a fantastic puller, and the gameplay is fast and fairly exciting, as you're always on the move. Being able to lull pull and mez and run really fast is really quite a lot of fun. From 5-45, bard is probably the most fun class in the game to level if you like pulling. TLDR: Bards are crappy chanters that run fast.
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