Bard teams are pretty damn nifty

[Ughmahedhurtz]

So I'm running 4x bards to play with a couple of buddies and so far, I must say I like them a lot. Healing by default while DPSing with extra group heals when needed and buffs out the wazoo do make for an extremely hard to kill group. Being able to "solo" major rifts and the elite invasions/bosses is nifty.

[Alge]

I've played 1 warrior + 4 bards to 50 and am now playing a mixed team. There are a couple of important shortcomings you may run into:

1) no cure/cleanse (unless I completely missed it somehow)
2) bards don't qualify as healers in the LFG system, so no randoms

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I've played 1 warrior + 4 bards to 50 and am now playing a mixed team. There are a couple of important shortcomings you may run into:

1) no cure/cleanse (unless I completely missed it somehow)
2) bards don't qualify as healers in the LFG system, so no randoms

Understood. I'm more interested in playing through the 1-50 game at the moment to see how things scale and get a bit of experience in the game's mechanics. I'm sure if I like the bards at 50, I'll probably roll another team to explore some other mechanics. Bards alone definitely already have trouble with instances at level. +5 or so I'm OK but my ranger pets tend to get eaten alive at-level.

[Lyonheart]

Bards can rez now too 8)

[Alge]

Understood. I'm more interested in playing through the 1-50 game at the moment to see how things scale and get a bit of experience in the game's mechanics. I'm sure if I like the bards at 50, I'll probably roll another team to explore some other mechanics. Bards alone definitely already have trouble with instances at level. +5 or so I'm OK but my ranger pets tend to get eaten alive at-level.

Bards are great for doing that.

[Norrin]

Well I think I am going to try out 4 bards + something else.
I finally got a full team running, but having 4 of the same thing, that can heal while dpsing, sounds good.
I only want to experience pve content, not even really interested in running instances right away.

Now if I could figure out how to make the video stream thingy in ISBoxer work for me that would be great.

[Alge]

Now if I could figure out how to make the video stream thingy in ISBoxer work for me that would be great.

You must be on Vista or later, have Aero desktop enabled and be using only a single PC or it can't work.

[cichard]

Well I think I am going to try out 4 bards + something else.
I finally got a full team running, but having 4 of the same thing, that can heal while dpsing, sounds good.
I only want to experience pve content, not even really interested in running instances right away.

Now if I could figure out how to make the video stream thingy in ISBoxer work for me that would be great.

if ur looking for ones that damage and heal at the same time do a warrior tank plus 4 chloro mages. u can be chloro/necro on 3 and chloro archon on hte 4th bring all the buffs bring 3 dps pets and all do damge plus heal. i guess alot of people do not realise that mages heal in this game. hehe

[cichard]

yup and actually at higher lvls bards are not as good as chloro/archon. archon brings the same buffs to the table as the bards anthem. But the archon can have all the anthems up at one time instead of just one. So 1 mage can do the buffs of 4 bards. They only lack the run speed anthem.