chocothunder
Member
Hi all,
I'm back (again) to DDO after almost 5 years, so going through the motions of picking up everything that's changed and remembering what the hell I used to do with my character. I'm hoping some of you could lend me a hand in figuring some things out.
I play a Human DEX Melee Bard, mostly Swashbuckler with a tier 4 dip of Spellsinger for HoT and some Warchanter protection. I only have a couple of epic past lives, mostly for doublestrike. It wasn't a really optimized build at the time (Count of Monte Cristo was the benchmark at the time, iirc), but it worked well enough and I had decent gear for it. 98% of the time I play solo, so it's ok if I need to take a quest slow. That character is now level 24 and I can barely survive reaper 3 with (Fatesinger and Divine Crusader for ED). DPS is regular, but enough for my solo play considering all the single-target CC involved. My survivability is terrible though, and usually not enough to get me through bosses or if I happen to trigger a mob.
So, all that said, I was wondering if you could give me some pointers on the current status of solo melee pure bard. From what I gathered so far, it's bad, I know. But given that I'm doing it anyway, and that I have only a limited capacity to pivot the character mid-life, anything more specific would be welcomed!
I checked out Kali's melee caster hybrid bard. It's really great and I'm learning all I can from it. But I don't have access to some basic elements for the build (Tiefling, 2 levels of Rogue, caster gear, CHA focus this life), so if there are more inputs from other melee-locked bards out there, I'd appreciate them.
Thanks in advance!
(Sorry for not providing detailed breakdown of my build, I'm still trying to remember it all. And getting used to the new character planner I found which is different from what I used 5 years ago).
I'm back (again) to DDO after almost 5 years, so going through the motions of picking up everything that's changed and remembering what the hell I used to do with my character. I'm hoping some of you could lend me a hand in figuring some things out.
I play a Human DEX Melee Bard, mostly Swashbuckler with a tier 4 dip of Spellsinger for HoT and some Warchanter protection. I only have a couple of epic past lives, mostly for doublestrike. It wasn't a really optimized build at the time (Count of Monte Cristo was the benchmark at the time, iirc), but it worked well enough and I had decent gear for it. 98% of the time I play solo, so it's ok if I need to take a quest slow. That character is now level 24 and I can barely survive reaper 3 with (Fatesinger and Divine Crusader for ED). DPS is regular, but enough for my solo play considering all the single-target CC involved. My survivability is terrible though, and usually not enough to get me through bosses or if I happen to trigger a mob.
So, all that said, I was wondering if you could give me some pointers on the current status of solo melee pure bard. From what I gathered so far, it's bad, I know. But given that I'm doing it anyway, and that I have only a limited capacity to pivot the character mid-life, anything more specific would be welcomed!
I checked out Kali's melee caster hybrid bard. It's really great and I'm learning all I can from it. But I don't have access to some basic elements for the build (Tiefling, 2 levels of Rogue, caster gear, CHA focus this life), so if there are more inputs from other melee-locked bards out there, I'd appreciate them.
Thanks in advance!
(Sorry for not providing detailed breakdown of my build, I'm still trying to remember it all. And getting used to the new character planner I found which is different from what I used 5 years ago).
