Got back to 20 on my TR melee bard, and decided that I wanted to do an eVON6. I had been in others on my fighter, and since I knew I was going to do the quest with my bard eventually I watched what the other bards were doing in those runs. The run I did completed, but I died 4 times on fire. So I have a few questions about where to go exactly while my fascinate song is running, and how not to die on fire base.

I saw the other bards run to the Velah side of each base, is this the correct spot?

When should I start playing my song? I had started about 8 steps from the dirt on the bridge, is that too soon? It seemed like I was getting the enemies nearest me but not the ones behind the djinn.

I have a perform score of 52 buffed, it seemed like at least one would save each time. Should it be higher?

Short answer, I play start the songs when I hit the island, but I'm usually a little late.  It's better than being early though.

I find that more often than not the reason fire messes up is that the evasion is not given enough time.  It isn't so much a matter of where people go.

On Inkdrop I can stand in there for minutes at a time.  When I'm playing him I usually get picked to lead the charge.  However, everyone else is right on my ass.  Instead, they should be about half a base behind, and give the ellies time to come on over.  The evasion runs to the opposite side, but doesn't block the exit.  The ellies and djinni sight aggro on him, and tries valiantly to nuke away.

The rest of the party should just enter the base, but you don't need to rush it.  The bard can get on the island, play a song, and let it finish when he's standing near the djinni.  Songs have plenty of range, you'll get them.  The party beats the hell out of the djinni, while the evasion goes on to the next base.

Wash.  Rinse.  Repeat.  Easy.

I run in first at third and second base but an evasion type will run into first base before me.  Ice and Air doesn't kill me like the fire elementals will.

A healer is assigned to be on my ass when I'm leading and keep me alive to get my songs played.

When I'm the first on the bases, I hit my skill boost just before I hit the island then hit my song and they will usually follow me to the other side so that the THF types can use their weapons without breaking my fascinate.

When the evasion type leads on fire, I'll start playing as soon as I hit the island.

My perform is 62 after buffing.
Shroud CHA skills item
Head of Good Fortune
Greater Heroism
Focusing chant
Human Versitility
Bards Cloak

My CHA is 24.
12 base
2 tome
2 Enhancement
6 Bard Cloak
2 Ship CHA buff

It is probably higher than I really need but I don't want to take chances so I boost it up.  There have been a few times that a critter didn't get fascinated, I'm not sure if they rolled a 20 or wasn't in range or got hit.  Usually it is a fire elemental that doesn't get fascinated.  I think I'm not quite in range because it is the one that is farthest away from me and all the others are fascinated.

I do have a radience guard item.  This thing kind of messes critters up a bit.  Even when fascinated, when they are blind, they still want to attack or run around.

I've been wanting to TR Nanny to 18 bard/2 rogue.  I just can't decide on the weapon and feats.  That evasion will be very handy when I do the TR because I know that I can get my reflex up high enough to be useful.

Darkrok wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 10:47am:


Me too!  It was actually my very first epic ever, to boot. 

While we're clarifying things here - should I stick around and drop a second fascinate if one or two mobs makes their save against the first, or just sprint my ass to the next base?

i usually hang around to make absolutely sure all mobs are fascinated especially if theres no arcane stationed there to throw dances on wild ones. usually if a wipe happens in vons its because of bases. so if you make sure those are covered its a success.

Running this on Warcrye is fun for me. I only have about a 45 perform, but I hit everything no problem (cept the mephits for some reason).

It's also fun on my monk because its really easy to use abundant step to stays ahead of the group. I usually pull the trash toward the side of the island closest to velahs pitchers mound. It's about as far away from the djinni as possible to help for lagging thfs.

Also, running ice to fire is the best I have seen so far. It's definitely a lot safer, as the renders and mephits are a lot weaker than the fire eles.

Inkblack wrote on Jun 1^st, 2011 at 9:25am:



Excellent tips.

When I Bard eV6 I usually start to sing just a few steps from the Island.  Base 1 and 2 are the easiest of the three and Fire is the 'worse' of the three, only because the ele's take some extra time for the puller to get grouped up.  Extra time should be given for that base.

OP, if one/two break or are not mezzed, it is a judgement call on what to do.  If one is free, IMO, a fast Dance is best only cause playing a song takes longer and bad things can happen.

Being a Virt myself, love Enthrall for the chance to break mezz on damage.  If I can ever get that +4 CHA Tome, I'll finally hit 100DC to my Songs.  Yes, overkill, but it is my epeen so let me stroke it...