Multiboxing Rift Dungeons Bard/Rangers - Charmer's Caldera (normal)

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I played 4-box with a RL friend playing 5th up until about 35. Then he got busy at work and I quested to 45ish without doing any instances. I couldn't tell you how they'd do at-level while leveling, though I suspect it would be wildly variable.

Things got difficult around 35-42ish with elites/invasions as you get to a point where you don't have enough points to get the goodies from bard and still have enough for the max-level pigs and the 68% AoE reduction. Once you hit about 43/44 you have enough points again and can start filling out the rest of the bard tree. The thing is that bard/ranger builds aren't a smooth progression through the levels. They are drastically different in terms of capability every 5-7 levels. Kinda like how the old enhancement shamans were in BC.

[edit] The pets take a good bit of damage primarily because A) I don't bother moving them out of the massive AoE that would hammer normal players, and B) when I rebuff motifs or cast my AoE finishers there is a good 2-4 second gap before I start healing again. Also, in this video, I let Motif of Regeneration drop off several times, so it looks like they're getting beaten on a lot more than me just being lazy and not healing much. Note that I have an AoE heal that will heal all 4 pets from almost zero to full in one cast but I rarely bother with it as it is usually massive overkill with all the other passive healing going on.

[Lyonheart]

The passive healing is what made the bards sound so good from the get go. The DPS from cadence was good enough and the healing was insane. At some point there was a patch that nerfed cadence dps and healing i thought. Or maybe it was just poor scaling. But the higher level i got, the less healing they seemed to do. SO I was just wondering if a patch helped it a bit. But it sound like the magic is in the late 40s or so. Anyway, I'm looking forward to when i can fire them up again before SWtOR comes out. I would like the get them to 50 and see a little bit the the end game before TOR sucks me in for the next few years. ( Just waiting for the cash to build my new pc )