DO YOU THINK IT IS POSSIBLE TO SOLO as a skald

[This message has been edited by Tom (edited 05-02-2001).]

Tom please shorten that word or cut it of before memnoch or ziroc does it for you
(they did that to me once)

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Give it a try bro...then let us know how far you get. I don't see why not...you still get mage spells as a Skald don't you?

Good luck!

Glycerine

The only thing remotely good about a bard is their songs and they cant do anything else while doing it so screw soloing them.In fact screw bards period.

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I've never tried to solo with a skald,but sounds like fun.

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Don't mess with the Lich

Id rather have my teeth pulled out with plyers then solo a bard.

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Hehe, a couple of months ago (Jan) a guy called BraveSirRobin solod with a jester which is even harder than with a Skald and wrote a diary about his progress which he posted on BGD. It's very doable, just as it is with a any class.

Whatever happened to BSR? Any idea? He seemed to be a likeable and intelligent person...

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Ooooh Caleb,
You and I are heading for a fight!!! http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...miles/wink.gif
I love bards, they are just the greatest class going.
Stuff powergaming, I like to have a good character to roleplay and you can't get better than a bard.

Tom, here are some tips:
Install the exp cap remover if you haven't already - you will level up so fast you will think you are in an express elevator.
Magic missile is a good spell for bards as it can usually be cast in combat without interruption.
Tensers Transformation is a good lvl 6 spell for bards when you reach a high enough level - turns you into a great combat machine.
Otherwise use defensive spells like stoneskin and other protection spells.
Get a familiar for the extra hit points.

It is possible to solo a bard, but it won't be easy. But isn't it the challenge that makes it fun?

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Epona of The Laughing Hyenas and The Ladies Guild.

Give it a go Tom,
It'll be pretty hard though......

But afterall anythings possible.

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Get level 50 patch
AS then you will be able to cast level 7,8,9 spells when you have too (about level 21 for l7, 25 for L8

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Sorry, Epona, but I agree with Caleb. Bards suck big hairy windbags, although a mate fo mine swears by the Blade as his first character (mind you, this isn't solo, and he hasn't finished it yet)
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As for role-playing, I find druid-classes are good for that (can you really play through as a conservationist the whole time?) as are the Clerics

I suppose as a would-be musician and singer, I identify with the bard as a character.

Treehugger I can empathise with too, so I'll agree with the druid thing.

Can't see myself as a priest though... http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...miles/wink.gif

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Epona of The Laughing Hyenas

I hate to admit it, but I have tried to solo as a Jester.

It's a great load of fun! You have to be able to laugh at yourself though - it can get really tough trying to make it as a singer in Amn. The idea isn't to power through as a supermage or a berserk killing machine every time (we've all done those right?)- it's kinda fun to be puny. Makes you think harder. Waaaay harder.

One useful spell is Melf's Minute Meteors, which can really put a dent in a critter. I haven't really found the bardsong property to be particularly helpful though. If you pickpocket things, econonic advancement becomes easier.

Bardsong is of little use when you're soloing IMHO.
Even if you're a Jester with confusion bardsong, you can't sing and do anything else at the same time... and as soon as you stop singing to pick up your sword the confusion ends.

And of course normal bardsong only works to increase your allies combat rolls, so if you have no allies there is no point. But this is a fairly minor point as far as I am concerned. A bard is a bard and that's all you need http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...es/biggrin.gif

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Hehe, actually the Jester bardsong IS useful. Just cast invisiblity on yourself and start singing. U stay invisible and all your enemies will kill each other- u should be able to finish the last one off.

Throntar- BSR is still around. He posts at the Elysium:

http://www.the-elysium.co.uk/cgi-bin.../ikonboard.cgi

but ex cap is chats but use shadow kepper for level 200
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The thing I like about thieves is their ability to take out adventurer groups without using magic. In the Sewers, Lord Raptor softened them up with a few spells. More fun than that, was running round the sewers, hiding in shadows, doubling back to backstab, and legging it again. Mind you, I had modified Lord Raptor's speed in Shadowkeepr (got fed up walking through corridors slowly) - to do this effectively, you'd need the Boots/Speed. How would you do the areas where, as soon as you enter, there are hostile critters, though? (e.g., entrance to the Planar Prison?) - Potion/Invisbility maybe? They have Truesight I think

But still, a skald special ability is to help allies, but soloing it would have no allies!

So i find it impposible!