true. it dosnt reduce the speed. but it does give you 100% chance to res and high chance to cure leathal nox. but..... BUT...... i thought you ALSO needed anat at 120 to get those perks?
Here's what I'm running (or will be once he's skilled up) right now on Siege: Musicianship Discordance Archery Tactics Chivalry Bowcraft/Fletching Tailoring I tried to make him a true combo character with crafting, barding and combat all in one. I'm also on a 3 month old account so GM is the max I can expect for quite some time. I depend a lot on the free 20% from being a humie!
the disco archer is a template i run on a couple shards and im very fond of it. but bowcraft? hehe youd do better to sink that 100 points into bushido for the lightning strike and confidence heal and the honor bonus's but i understand, skills slots are at a premium on siege. but without LJ your high and dry anyways, no, cause ya need someone else to get ya the wood. supose you could use JOAT to get wood. but without arms lore your bows wont have any DI to them.
So, I took your advice to a point and dropped the Tailoring: Musicianship Discord Archery Tactics Armslore Bowcraft/Fletching Chivalry I have been using the Human 20% lumberjacking successfully for a couple of weeks now. I won't get the super snazzy woods from the trees, but I can buy those from others. I was more concerned about being able to craft at GM+. It's working out pretty well so far!
Here's my current Bard template. I've always been a big fan of "pure" templates, which seem to be a dying breed these days. Also, I want him to have the highest luck I can mash into his suit at the cost of resistances but hey, bards are supposed to be nimble and not in the fray! Also note that I will be doing a lot of group play with my dad, old veterans since that fateful January 2000 day when I picked up The Second Age. I'll be doing a lot of support. 120 Musicianship 120 Discordance 120 Provocation 120 Peacemaking 110 Magery 115 Meditation (Hope to get to 120 someday) He's still in training. Just now in the one-teens discordance and slowly inching up to legendary. After that it's onto provoking and then peacemaking. Just thought I'd share.
Im almost complete with my mystic bard: 120 Discord 120 Peace 120 Music 120 Focus 120 Mysticism 100 Magery 30 Meditation I use colossus to do the majority of the fighting while discording and using peace to stay safe. Magery is mainly so I don't use up recall scrolls and for the occasional Resurrection for a paser-by. As you might guess, mana regeneration is kinda rough. But built with the proper suit its not too hard stay alive.
Here's my template on my Disco Tamer 115 Lore (+5 Tally) 110 Taming (+5 Tally) 100 Vet 120 Music (+10 Sleeves) 120 Disco 120 Meditation (+30 from jewels) 100 Magery (+15 book) He's also 70/70/70/70/75 FC 2/FCR 6 LRC 100 LMC 39 MR 16 I recently stoned peace to add Med. I found myself not really using peace during battle. I added the Med to I can keep the disco masteries going and leave enough mana regen for heals and cures. It's been working well so far. This is my first bard and I'm actually enjoying these skills!
120 disco 120 music 120 taming 120 animal lore 120 vet 120 magic suit is all 70's with 100 LRC and 40 LMC and 30 MR with some other goodies on it to make up for the lack of med and focus. i have that template on pretty much every shard (except HK servers) give or take 10 points into magic ($$)
I have been having lots of fun with this disco tamer template: Animal Lore 115 (120) (+5 from talisman) Taming 90 (115) (+ 20 from jewels + 5 from talisman) Veterinary 120 Music 100 (120) (+20 from jewels) Disco 90 (120) (+30 from jewels) Mage 100 Meditation 90 Right now I am capped at 705 points. When I have 720, I will likely bump med or magery. This works great with a party of two tamers. I take a GD for tanking, the other brings runebettle for corruption and other pet of preference for damage. Disco + runebettle corruption means the poor monster goes down VERY fast.
Pure Bard = 4x 120 True skill +120 Meditation + 120 Magery Typically Run Peace Mastery and then head down to shame to Provo and Disco Mobs. The Combination of Peace Mastery songs usually provides enough healing and damage blocking not to get interrupted, as well as keeping me alive long enough to successfully provo after a number of fails. Mystic Bard 120 Provo 120 Music 120 Mysticism 120 Focus 120 Wrestling 120 Alternating between Meditation and PeaceMaking If I get a RC up, and leave it to do damage, I will typically run invigorate and inspire. If I wasnt to use the RC as well as cast spells myself, then I'll swap out meditation for peacemaking and just go with inspire. (With the mana cost reduction from both Peace and Provo I can keep both songs going at the same time for quite a while, if I'm not casting spells) Ninja Bard 120 Peace/Music 120 Wrestling 120 Meditation 120 Ninjitsu 120 Magery Typically this bard I use to support my guild in group PvP. Peace masteries lower damage taken and provide good regens for the group, while I can suplement that with Magery for Gheals/Gcures, and curse/poison and para spams. Wrestling is for stunning blow and disarm, and ninjitsu is for running away , mirrors if dismounted, and death strikes while chasing people down. This template is pretty fun, but completely useless outside of group play. Tamer Bard 120 Peace/Music/Disco(Someitmes switch Provo for Peace) 105 Taming/Lore (+15 Each from Gems) 100 Magery 70 Meditation. Depending on what I'm hunting I switch between Provo and Peace. AoE peace is great for getting my dragon out of scraps and peace masteries help him tank better. But at the same time combining provo masteries the extra damage is not too shabby, and it gets in some extra healing. Can't say I have a favorite though I lean more toward peace for saving my tamer when he becomes the target. I have a couple other bard templates, but I'm still building those bards, and I can't speak to how well they work yet.
Hi all, my current template is: 120 Music 120 Disco 120 Provo 120 Magery 120 Medi then I have a choice of 120 Eval or 120 Peace, which is the better option? Shezzy
Eval if your gonna be doing direct damage. peace if you want the bard mastery bonus and can get use to using mind bolt and EVs and using your masteries to do your killing for you.
You know a Disco Provo Archer with Chivalry and mana leech, running the provo masteries might be an interesting template. Would be putting out about 110% damage multiplier with EoO Consecrate and Inspire, and also get 40% damage increase that could be saved on the suit. That's gonna go in my weird template to try queue.
I have : Peacemaking 109.3 Provocation 107.3 Fishing 100 Magery 100 Musicianship 100 Eval Int 94.9 Discordance 74.7 Could you give me some advise on my fisherman bard? Just reactivate my account so a bit confuse with lots of changes.
Nets and dungeon fishing would be the only reason I can see to have bardic skills on your fisher. It really depends on what you are planning on doing with your fisherman. Is he going to be used to do things other than fishing? If so, I would probably drop peace and add meditation. You can also use soul stones and plat different templates depending on what you want to do at the time. There are a lot of tweaks that can be made which are dependent on how you want to use him. I have 2 fisherman but since this is the Bard Forums I will PM you with the templates.
Hey DLL, there are probably lots of Fishermen here in the Bards forum that would love to see your templates (I know I'm one) and would have zero problem with you posting them here for us... Fork 'em over.....
It doesn't truly belong here but since things are so quiet I will go ahead and post them. I have 2 fisherman 1. Mage/Fisherman/t-hunter 12o Fishing 110 Magery (Reptile Slayer spellbook for sea serpents/deep sea serpents) 110 Mysticism (95 real +15 ring) 110 Eval (95 real +15 ring) 100 Focus 100 Cartography 100 Lockpicking 2. Archer Fisherman 120 Fishing 110 Archery (Reptile Slayer Imbued Bow and Bow of the Juka Lord) 110 Tactics 110 Anatomy 100 Chivalry 100 Focus soul stones 110 Music 110 Disco
Just switched from a pure bard to this template. So far, so good. Been using for basic Shame farming runs and haven't attempted to push my luck versus some harder opponents in the game. Also haven't attempted much other than the slow moving and non casting mobs [Golems, Mud Eles, etc.] in Shame. I may be looking into developing a new suit sometime soon with the new changes in LMC on heavier armor and now that I'm running focus for mana regen instead of Meditation. Also debating on the idea of dropping magery lower [I really like using it for Invisibility so still high enough to not fail at this] and taking a little bit of meditation to help with Mana regen. Mystic Bard: 120 Music 120 Disco 120 Provo 120 Mysticism 120 Focus 115 Magery [too cheap to buy the 120 Magery PS]
I run 110 animal taming 110 animal lore 100 vet 100 magey 100 provo 120 jwls 100 disco 120 jwls 100 music. 120 jwls I try to have as much mr on suit as possible. Sent from my GT-I9305 using Tapatalk 2
