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Our new lvl 74 Charm song - Beckon of the Tuffein The run down... Charm up to Level 73 mobs Rank 1 - 6 ticks Rank 2 - 8 ticks Rank 3 - 1 min. Range - 30? The range is about the same as our level 70 Vampire song. You need to be in melee range or tight autocircle. Which makes it kinda rough with multiple mobs that double or quad for 1400+. Sad to say but I can kinda see why they put the range restriction on these... Bards would never again group (unless we are after a certain drop) if we could charm kite in TCC like we do in PoN. Face it... full groups are hard pressed to kill Hobgobs as fast as we can solo them.

Bards would never again group (unless we are after a certain drop) if we could charm kite in TCC like we do in PoN. Face it... full groups are hard pressed to kill Hobgobs as fast as we can solo them.

Thus the short range! :p (they don't want us to Swarm Kite) Seriously, though. Try mezzing one out of your Swarm and then Charming it. Harder? yea. Still doable? yea.

I'll give this a try tonight, I did not get much of a chance to play with the song last night... as I logged about 15 min after I hit 74. Thanks

It's still very doable with practise, mez your next charm target, circle around close to it, start casting charm, as long as you get back close to it just before charm finishes casting yer golden. Takes some practise to get the circle size right but once u do its back to standard swarming :)

sweet

Stop slacking Ylanios and get that Epic 2 completed :p 'stix

Unless he destroyed it ... he has it ;)

After playing my bard to level 74( I mosly solo or duo with a necro friend on the Zek Server) I was really excited about the new charm song! WHAT as disapontiment it was when i got it. Try useing it in iceclad for instance-what a joke!/The main problem with it is the short range in my opinion, I am gonna go ahead and lev to 75 then the bard wont get played except to powerlev lower levs -how disapointing after all this tme played-Paniddar 74 composer Zek server ----I was wondering why I never see hardly any other Bards that are past 70 now I know why

We're still some of the fastest exp gainers ever. The range change didn't affect the viability of using charm for soloing at all.

I have definatly changed my view on the lvl 74 song - Beckon of the Tuffein.  Rank 2 of the song is definatly worth spending the plat on in the bazaar if you find it.  When used with the Queen Mez and the right group of mobs I can gain almost the same amount of exp as a full group blowing through a TBS mission.

Charm is something I have memmed most of the time. There's still alot of content in groups that can be charmed.
Semi zerging a mission and get 2? Charm one for dps and keep full songs going rather than worrying about mez.  Free dps off a mob is hard to ignore.

When wanting to pick a heavy hitting charmed mob, (Longshadow5 I charm the 2 mini named spiders into each other to wear them down), zoom in with shield equipped, start song, back off, let song start to finish, nip back in again to let it land and you've saved a fair bit of damage being taken.

Definately a usefull and solid song.  Even without the range, it's still great to use.

 

what i dont like the new charm song is that it doesn't last long and mobs break charm very often and ofcoz the short range too

Rank one lasts only 36 seconds max, rank two 48 seconds, rank three takes it back up to the full minute. It's still handy though.

If it's breaking early for you, you may need to raise your charisma more. Also, some mobs are just more resistant in general, and you can expect them to break often and quickly. Some mobs consistently are no problem. Knowing the mob's resists can help a lot, and for that reason charm is more reliable in some places than in others.

FreedymFry:

Rank one lasts only 36 seconds max, rank two 48 seconds, rank three takes it back up to the full minute. It's still handy though

 

Unfortunately, Rank 3 doesn't exist in the game.  But the upgrade from Rank 1 to 2 is worthwhile. 

 Well i use to swarm kite with rank 2 and working well.. look few friend comming for playing with me and well its in icefall Glacier.

If you try swarm kite there try for this quest Free the Wolves , i solo it yesterday.

 

 Tulima.