Deeds wrote on Apr 6
th, 2012 at 4:35am:
With the expansion and tier 3 PRE around the corner, you might want to consider 18 bard.
In terms of gear, make sure you work in tharnes + epic ring of the stalker. I found it tough to find a permanent slot for con opp so I chose to make hotswap goggles (not a huge issue as you use most of the sp buffing anyways).
As I have eClaw and eAbishai 3-piece (helm, cloak and boots) and I want to hotswap neckslot to epic shimmering pendant or torc, i made triple earth gs belt and went with shintao set instead of ravager/encrusted as has been suggested.
And I personally took extend, max, emp healing, toughness, PA, WF:Slashing, IC:Slashing, Imp Sunder and quicken. A lot of ppl think quicken is a waste but if you need to throw a heal in an emergency your going to be doing it in the middle of combat.
I only took Maximize. 120+ point CSW is nice. And Extend since I'm a splash build.
Emp Healing and Quicken were better served as Quickdraw and Stunning Blow.
eta: Took my bard into elite ETK last night and lagged out in the end fight after we had looted and there were still the 3 red named ellies up.
I came back after a full minute to nothing but a huge wall of *EVADE*. Apparently, my 35+ reflex save did the trick quite nicely.