Can't change genders on TR, right? I'd have to make a helf male...bleh. Oh, well, won't have to look it in the face terribly often...can keep the spider mask on.

Eladiun wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2012 at 12:30pm:

Not much from the fighter level either. Already have a 16/2/2 decided to try something different.

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1. Khopesh costs a feat.
2. The rapier is more bard friendly with anthem, inspiring echoes, superior devotion 6  and charisma 7 (which the khopesh has, I'll admit). It also has cacophony which is like a sonic version of a disintegrate proc. Better overall weapon, even if the base damage is lower and the crit profile worse, as I likely won't take imp crit.

Got my second Epic Elyd crafted last night. 

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The rapiers are silver, so I'd only need weapons of good to bypass DR Not true for the khopesh. Plus harry is lawful evil, so the true law and axiomatic burst do exactly jack shit against him.

Really my bard doesn't plan on being a front line melee in most raids. Back-up heals ftw. I also have an epic mask of comedy for the major healing lore.

She actually has a shit load of lame epic items, just because I had the stuff and no one to put it on. Shimmering pendant, robe of dissonance, elyd edges, mask of comedy, rodericl's wand. eventually maybe i'll put some greensteel on her 

rest wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2012 at 3:18pm:

You make me weep once again for the Bard that Akrites once was.    When I get him back to cap, he'll have a 42 DC disco ball, so I guess it was worth the TRing bullshit. 

Grace wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2012 at 9:30pm:


Oak is Hordo alternate?

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Well if you aren't going for max deeps (and if you go twf on a bard, you aren't)

I did THF last life, and yes, I'll probably lose some damage. I would guess that the extra SA from the second hand weap will make up for some of the loss though. I mainly went TWF since I was already going to start with a 14 dex and had a +3 dex tome nommed. If I'm going to put evasion on a toon I might as well make it half decent. Should be mid to high 30's at the end. Not the best in the business but it should help mitigate damage. The horc bard/barb/fighter that my toon was last life was fun for damage, but holy shit, it got torn apart with spell damage.

Having that higher reflex/evasion should also help with scroll healing versus casters.

We'll see how it pans out, if I end up hating it I'll go back to THF and dump dex down.

I think you'll be missing another +1/+1 from songs, but I'm probably totally wrong.

furbyoats wrote on Apr 5^th, 2012 at 4:15pm:


Yes. that's why the 14/x builds work so well on a WC.

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You want 16 for ac song.

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Shit that's right. 16 for dance.

With the expansion and tier 3 PRE around the corner, you might want to consider 18 bard.

In terms of gear, make sure you work in tharnes + epic ring of the stalker. I found it tough to find a permanent slot for con opp so I chose to make hotswap goggles (not a huge issue as you use most of the sp buffing anyways).

As I have eClaw and eAbishai 3-piece (helm, cloak and boots) and I want to hotswap neckslot to epic shimmering pendant or torc, i made triple earth gs belt and went with shintao set instead of ravager/encrusted as has been suggested.

And I personally took extend, max, emp healing, toughness, PA, WF:Slashing, IC:Slashing, Imp Sunder and quicken. A lot of ppl think quicken is a waste but if you need to throw a heal in an emergency your going to be doing it in the middle of combat.

Deeds wrote on Apr 6^th, 2012 at 4:35am:


I only took Maximize. 120+ point CSW is nice. And Extend since I'm a splash build.

Emp Healing and Quicken were better served as Quickdraw and Stunning Blow.

eta: Took my bard into elite ETK last night and lagged out in the end fight after we had looted and there were still the 3 red named ellies up.

I came back after a full minute to nothing but a huge wall of *EVADE*. Apparently, my 35+ reflex save did the trick quite nicely.