Gotten bored with TR and World of Tanks. Any fun to be had in a solo Bard? Someone have a post U19 build?

16 bard 2 fighter 2 rogue is still very good imo.....virtuoso (I know it's spellsinger now, I still call it virtuoso because Virtuoso of the Sword sounds better than Spellsinger.....) melee bard is the way to go imo...fascinate a bunch of enemies and beat em down one at a time, when you have an orange named or only 1 tough enemy that isn't named: song of capering his ass and beat him down.

Evasion, trap skills, and bonus feats also never hurt

Fascination breaks when you hit the mob, so you might get SA on the first hit, but after, no.

hm can't find it, so basically what i would do:

human bard 16/fighter 2/rogue 2

str 16
dex 12
con 14
int 14
wis 8
cha 14

skills: max search/disable, in bard levels always get: perform umd

first level rogue obv, after that just whatever

feats needed:
power attack/cleave/great cleave/overwhelming critical*epic feat*
quicken/maximize/extend (self healing/self healing/haste rage displace)
Improved critical:whatever weapon type you use
inspire excellence *epic feat*

optional feats:
thf/ithf/gthf (assuming two handed fighting really)

so if you took as heroic feats cleave/gcleave/power attack/ic:weapon type/extend/max/quick/thf/ithf/gthf then inspire excellence (note you need 20 trained ranks, so make sure you get those ... I messed that up when I did this type of build and was really pissed) and OC for epic feats at 21 and 24 and you're good

Before U19, one could do 16/2/2 with 2 barb and either 2 fighter or 2 rogue.

Another interesting approach I saw was 8bard/6fgt/6bard. Depending on the core abilities you want, this might work as a 12bard/4fgt/4barb or 12/6/2 as well.

Though you miss out on evasion (I am skeptical as to how much use you could get out of it anyway, given the saves needed now), 16 Bard/x Ranger/x Cleric or FVS is solid on melee DPS and with survivability with all the positive spellpower available. Human, of course.

16 Bard/3 Ranger/1 FVS is my preference. Pretty solid saves through base saves and enhancements, Haste Boost from Tempest, and some sneak die from DWS along with the obvious positive spellpower. Tier Five would be Warchanter for the crit multi, but an argument could be made for Spellsinger.

Should be able to sport ~60 strength once geared a little and be relatively durable with medium armor PRR, displacement, and ghostly on some slot.

aDifferentHandle wrote on Sep 8^th, 2013 at 2:03pm:


Dunno. I TRed my old bard into a Juggernaut a while back and am only now considering LRing a defunct Stalwart Defender into a THF bard. I would not be surprised if the ability is bugged, given Turbine's track record.

I think the +1 crit multiplier works, but I have only anecdotal evidence. Thing is, I took Overwhelming Crit at the same time as Howl of the North. My crit damage roughly doubled.

I've started a discussion about the effectiveness of Howl of the North here: https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/422354-Howl-of-the-North-worth-it-some...
Not very exciting reading though

I have three levels of barbarian on my bard. I used them to snag Supreme Cleave. In LD, it's too much clicking, but when farming other destinies, another cleave is okay.

you can have both

If you're doing a human Bard consider the treasure boosting Dragonmarks.

I LR's my 16bard/2fighter/2rogue into 16Bard/2Ranger/2Rogue. 

2 Ranger is way better than 2 fighter:
Multishot with pinion - those ranger feats really help qualify for it. 
Ranger Enhancements has the 100% returning arrows, ranger has 75 devotion.

I was thinking of doing a Bard 16/Ftr 2/Rog 2. Not sure if most of the Warchanter enhancements are worth getting anymore compared to what you can get from the Spellsinger tree. I wouldn't even bother with Ironskin Chant or Inspire Recklessness, the +1's here and there don't seem significant compared to ED's and the current level of power creep.