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Bard Song range (Re-do!)

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 3:34 pm
by Desimus
Hey Tyler, first of all thanks for the increases. I guess in retrospect my appeal would go something a little more like this...

Instead of guessing at spells I logged in the bard and another toon to test this.

I play four songs at a time.. "Ancient: Call of Power" + "Niv's Harmonic" + "Storm Blade" + "War March of Chaos".

Of these four it appears that Ancient: Call of Power and Storm Blade are the two that have the longest range on them. The range on these two is pretty darn good. I don't think I could possibly ask for them to be upped more as they are substantially long as is. (If this was recently changed... thank you).

The other two spells however, "Niv's Harmonic" + "War March of Chaos" are (I feel) very short ranged. They are not even half of the other two spells.. and one is a chaotic spell. I'd understand if range was an upgrade of the chaotics or something like that but since this is a chaotic would it be overpowered to increase it's range? Even if you left Niv's... because as I understand it there is an AC spell in a higher tier that you could up the range on to keep everything in line? Just a thought.

Anyway, there it is... again this is not a huge deal, just a small thing I thought might help to make things more smooth and polished.

Re: Bard Song range (Re-do!)

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 3:55 pm
by Lola
short range for songs affecting melee characters, where is the issue?
I assume you put your bard in melee as you requested a 2nd 2.0 effect.

I will not be rude on this topic, so I will try to understand your point.
Why do you want range song increase?
Do you plan to park your bard out of melee/AoE/whatever and keep getting songs for melees characters?

Explain exactly what is the benefit of what you are requiered.

Re: Bard Song range (Re-do!)

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 4:03 pm
by Desimus
That is exactly why. On raids with high tier mobs often times I'm not putting my bard within melee range or I am using the mana regen on the casters (I know this is a different spell).

I guess the whole point of my post is to get the range of spells evened out. If you feel they all need to be short, that's fine. If you want them to all have a widder range.. fine. I guess I should have just made a post saying "Bard song ranges are different, was this intended?".

Hope that makes a little more sense, and no your not being rude. I hope this doesn't seem like im being un-reasonable. I'm definitely saying it's fine however you want to do it.. just be aware of X Y and Z.

Thanks

Re: Bard Song range (Re-do!)

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 4:07 pm
by Tyler
Some ranges of songs are real small.

The Chaotic and True Songs have a range of 100 (Chaos still had 60). Some songs like the Storm line already has been upgraded prior to this. Also the Charm spell has a lot longer range than what was on Live. (bard swarm kite fix etc).

All future Songs will have a range of 100 (beside chorus lines etc) to reflect the greater power.

Re: Bard Song range (Re-do!)

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 4:13 pm
by Lola
I understand your point and Tyler already decided hehe :)
This will help a little bit more and definitly make Bard Alt Bot (I also play one for my wiz) a good afk Alt.