[Guide - 3.0] Volorin's Bard Leveling Guide!

[wotaad]

Green is uncommon, blue is rare. Same level, blue armor is better than green in most cases.

in the main town theres loads of rep npcs how am i surpose to know wat to buy from

[gonionknight]

Anything that's good stats for you and your level.

[boog]

The weapons us Bards can use varies. The different types of weapons we use are:
- Swords
- Daggers
- Axes
- Maces
- Spears
- Off-hands
- Wands
Quite the selection, right?
However, I am deeply sorry to have to inform you guys this, however, you really only want to us Axes or Maces for your Main Hand. We have a very strong spell called "Flying Blade" and to get the most out of this hugely OP spell is by using a Axe or Mace. I shall go deeper into "Flying Blade" later.

I read through this twice but i must be overlooking your explanation as too why axe and mace?

[gonionknight]

The weapons us Bards can use varies. The different types of weapons we use are:
- Swords
- Daggers
- Axes
- Maces
- Spears
- Off-hands
- Wands
Quite the selection, right?
However, I am deeply sorry to have to inform you guys this, however, you really only want to us Axes or Maces for your Main Hand. We have a very strong spell called "Flying Blade" and to get the most out of this hugely OP spell is by using a Axe or Mace. I shall go deeper into "Flying Blade" later.

I read through this twice but i must be overlooking your explanation as too why axe and mace?

For Flying Blade and Dancing/Raving Blade, each proc depends on the weapon's "single swing" damage. Maces and Axes have the highest damage range, with Axe having a wider range and Mace having a smaller one. Spears, Swords, and Daggers return much lower damage.

[boog]

Thanks, I had a feeling that was the reason. I just picked up a fountain of death since I didn't like the outcome of my ruby choices. I took both sharp cord and grande finale rubies and skipped combat tune. I see in most suggested builds nobody uses SC/GF (not sure why).
I'm at lvl25 now and plan to follow the "suggested" build in this post but would also like to have some pvp defense available. Keep getting my [I Have a Potty Mouth] handed too my by a paladin.

I still cant get my brain to wrap around the bard's abilities for some reason. Any help would be great from you gonionknight since you seem to have a really clear grasp on the class

[gonionknight]

Sharp Chord = Loud Chords? Those only work on AoE, so while they look good on paper, your targets will undoubtedly die towards 1, and it doesn't help on bosses. It's nice for AoE suppression, but Loud Timpani arguably is scarier in PvP.

[sipulisoppa]

I'm not 100% sure but i guess he meant that 25% critrate ruby for dissonance/disharmony

[serban90]

Thanks a lot Volarin.. after many months i was away, i got missed out alot about Allods. Luckily i found your guide post.

[skaless]

so, what stat boosts your astral damage?

[excuta]

Nice leveling guide , but any , endgame/ dps support or whatever bards should do endgame? i've seen a bard in action, Vedder from my guild , 16 million raving baldes, highest dps in Raid? so i know bards arent full support or cant be full support if they have such power in them