EQDiva

Well, I think I've done as much as I can in the game without a guild, so I've joined a raiding guild on our server.  I'm just an applicant, but in the past week, I've done more content and seen more new things than I have in my played time as a bard.  I missed so much from the time I quit, shortly after Luclin came out and I know there is a TON of content out there...but how much of that content is truly useful now?

The boards were really quiet, so I thought I'd at least post a little something to stir up some excitement =).  I am not the primary puller in our party, as I think I currently only have 15-16k unbuffed HPs, where our main bards have about 25k (sheesh).  However, its great being able to help out, either by mezzing, or just playing useful songs.

Gear will come in time, but been working hard to catch up on newer content (MMM keys, Solt Keys, etc).  Something I never worked on before because to be quite honest, never needed.

Hey Rany, maybe you made little mistake hehe  you say :

acorcoran:

as I think I currently only have 15-16k unbuffed HPs, where our main bards have about 25k (sheesh).

But you magelo show you under 11k  maybe you mean buffed )

Later  and nice see you start raiding.

Tulima.

You're absolutely right, I guess I was flexing in the mirror that day thinking I was better off than I was =).  I am about 11k unbuffed...=)

I really need to take some time and work on my epic 1.5.  The past two weeks have been dedicated to getting keyed for the various raids...once that is done, I'll try to start work on that.  Print out the checklist and just bribe a group. 

Most of the work appears to be single groupable?

Depends if your new guild help you .. if yes all 1.5 is one groupable..

Gl.. )

We'll see.  Not going to push for it, but on downtime, may ask for assistance in groups.

I joined Echoes in Eternity...great group of players.

Cool am With Reviviscence and we do FC and AG atm. i Pull some in Zeka lately but just have 17 to 18k hp raid buff and well they hit kinda hard .. but its more fun pull then just wait for mob comming.

Great!  We've been doing Solt and MMM quite a bit.  I'm not the puller as mentioned, but still is great to see new content and be challenged.  I'm looking forward to spending some points and getting some upgrades =)

I can tell you this... most of 1.5 was duoable with pimped out mage and we duoed the final mob for it with just his 'super' pet and the adds coming in from time to time hehe

Well that is good to know.  I've completed all the solo items so I'd like to start the rest of it...just looked like a lot of fights that required groups...but might be able to get a small, well rounded group to help out then...or a couple of mages =)

For the dragons I mostly had a Mage , my self and a cleric... anything after that was overkill hehe. For Kith had 2 mages

Don't sell yourself short Aco, you can pull anything with 15K, the problem with 15K is surviving AEs, not pulling.

Solteris is specially fun, keep both LoY cures memmed, to cure yourself from gargoyle (can cure gargoyle with one pulse if wielding a flute, you can make a boandolier for that) and spider dot (same as Demi in terms of cures), and also to cure monks. You can support the monk crew when they are FDed and gargoyled and their cure AA is down, saves them a few deaths and gets you in the pulling team fun, if you like pulling that is. You can also assist monks with mez-fade split on large pulls, just about everything is mezzable there. No reason why you shouldn't pull, run 8 > Solteris trash, but yes, they hit hard.

I started my bard from scratch as an alt, and became my main when SoE destroyed the chanter class in GoD. I was pulling Tipt, KT and RSS with LDoN armor, before I had Hurricane armor (PoP tradeskill) a Warrior friend made for me. And yes, those fire bishes in RSS would knock me down to 50% or less in one smack if tank wasn't fast with tags, so I used snare a lot to avoid it. You have the tools, use them, HPs just make you lazier. With OOC regen now, dying is no big deal for bards any more.

Hugs,

Manizeh. 

Well since the post, I'm nearing the 15k unbuffed mark so life is getting a bit more survivable.  Still learning the small ins and outs of the raiding bard.  I skipped over the cures for a long time, but realized how important they are, so last week picked up both of those.  Now I just need to learn which cure to which mob...i.e, at times you need to cure corruption, etc, so still a bit confused about when to use what cure =).

for when I have a couple of songs I may want and not a clue as to which I need I have a /melody key that just twists the two over and over "/melody 7 8 7 8"