The Bard Was Great! But...

[@Bon-Gi]

I can't wait to see Summoner!

[@AszkalonOfVerra]

_* Smiles in Summoner/Cleric Class Combination *_ ... ... ... it's gonna be awesome, Bon-Gi. 😎

[@patrickobrienstr]

This video earned you a sub good stuff!

[@3Earthling3]

Bard gameplay looked great. I was expecting more mana support and less heals though. Can’t wait to see the rest of the kit and try one out in a2

[@C_A_I_N_N]

before anything, as much as i know the community is upset about the delay, its only 1 month and more importantly, i feel its better they ensure the game doesnt release with new server tech only for that tech to not work and they not only than need to delay but also have to be shown up that the promise the new meshing would work and be done and working properly on top of also needing to possibly delay longer anyways. i mean seriously i jumped on back during 2020 like most in this community but for thsoe who have been here since longer or even the start, whats one more month after 10 years anyways?

[@Ranziel1]

1 month so far.

[@imthrillz5255]

Almost 8 years and still in alpha.

[@C_A_I_N_N]

@@imthrillz5255 yep cuz the development has been open from the very start..... most games have four or five years in closed pretty much completely sealed development before releasing an early access which they to some degree often Market as full games half the damn time was it then staying in that early access stage for another like 5 to 6 years so you can look at ashes of creation having been in development for 10 years now I think that's the biggest sin it's ever committed and the reason why it'll never actually come out or you could understand how game development works and understand that that's just the drawback when you get to watch it from the very beginning with a company that actually is eyes open about the development as they can possibly be

[@kfarbarata]

I dont think this bard is great, is lacking variety, ability point is a limited resource and this bard's spells are not balanced. The buffs are way better than the other spells, as a main Bard I don't see any ppl making anything with this bard other than full support hp/mp/slave - That aint fun to play at all, even a support player will play this and get bored quickly. U will not use all those spells... lol. The only skills they got right in terms of bard were Mesmerizing Dance (incapacitated targets, its not a 'sleep'), Get off the stage (that violino hit), Quick Wit (double skill, bards need more of those, in allies buff in enemies Demoralize them trowing a tomato) and Gambit (they should do more Tarot oriented spells like 'Tarot of Fate' from Ragnarok). Just some quick view on some spells that they need to improve : -Dark Lullaby (the spell that interacts with Mesmerizing Dance's incapacitated foe) is single target, the effect take over the whole screen and it takes 4seconds to proc (until that ur party tanker either died or the enemy already broke the incapacitated - or an ally hit the enemy-) That skill will only work in 1v1 scenarios, again ABILITY POINT IS LIMITED , AS THE SUPPORT SKILLS ARE WAAAAY BETTER, WHY D FUCK WOULD ANYONE SPEND POINT IN A SINGLE TARGET SKILL THAT DOESNT DO DAMAGE (low cap damage) AND THE COMBO IS ALMOST NOT VIABLE AT ALL? -Chilling Song - why making a single target spell that chills enemies? ... lol (u need 5 stacks to freeze someone) Menancing Dance (the 30% debuff only works when u get the Humiliated debuff, that debuff only procs on targets that are Demoralized but Demoralized can only be achievid via Quick Wit - that is single target) So its an AOE skill that u need to be closer to the enemy, that does less damage when there's more enemies and u can only proc the Humiliated on 1 enemy... this is also a waste of spell. MOV SPEED MELODY AND MOV SPEED DANCE - why? Just... why? 2 spells that give movspeed, the Melody is 3s buff that renovates itself if u still playing the melody (u can play the same melody for 20s) and the movspeed dance gives u a buff that last for 5seconds and gives u like 25% movspeed. UOoou what a waste of skill points... one more time, U WONT HAVE THAT MANY SKILLS POINTS AS WE SAW IN THE SHOWCASE. Most of the spells are group oriented, some buffs doesnt even work on the bard as it seems. I hope they do... Like that Anthem of Alacrity (single target 25% atk speed/castspeed boost that last for 10seconds), if u can only use on allies I dont see ppl getting this ... do we really see someone being a slave supp from a fighter/mage giving him this buff everytime it effects whore's off (the cd is bigger then the effect last)? Where's the mental aspect of the class? Where is Charm? Where is Tasha's Hideous Laghter? Silence? Crow of Madness? Confusion??? Where are the Illusions??? Where are the AOE protections from mental states (protection from silence, confusion, charm, etc)????? AOC Bard does not have any Cleanse or Dispell effect..... I mean, any DnD player who plays a full heal Bard is playing it wrong, lol, I know MMO is not DnD but the reason a lot of MMO bards suck (and became a hp/mp dual account slave) is 'cause they dont look at the variety that a Bard can have (such as in DnD). The AOC Bard looks more like a disco cleric/disco mage than a actual Bard. They can improve it (and should) and probably will. When u really see the whole kit u will see that is lacking... FOR THE LAST TIME : ABILITY POINT IS LIMITED. U WILL NOT HAVE AS MANY SPELLS AS BUCKY DID IN THE SHOWCASE, THEY WERE LV 11 IN THE SHOWCASE AND HAD ONLY ALL SPELLS SO THEY COULD OBVIOUSLY SHOW US. Thinkin on multiclass, there's any combinations that makes sense apart from Bard/Bard, Bard/Cleric and maybe Bard/Rogue? It does not have any dmg so a Bard/Mage will not be DPS, will still be support oriented. How it would interact with Fighter, Tanker, Ranger, Summonner...??? If they make great combinations with the spells like, for ex : Flourish (bard's blink skill) leaving illusion clones behind ur path when u take Bard/Rogue or Bard/Mage. Or Bard/Summoner having a debuff that summons rats... they probably could make it unique enough to be worth to pair Bard with other 'not so much' pairable Archetypes. I've adressed a lot of this (and more) in the forums. They need to work a lot on this class. Ovr the visuals and spell SFX (such as with Discordance) are great but they still have a long way.

[@Nyce-Gaming]

I heckin love segways

[@isth3reno1else]

@@Nyce-Gaming fun to ride around on for sure

[@PalhacoCapitalista]

what about seagulls?

[@nextshor]

Bard/mage might be a fun to add some kill potential to a buff class. Hopefully class balance is good enough to pull it off

[@kfarbarata]

by the showcase it isnt, the dmg dont scale good (most dmg skills are single target the ones that are AOE dmg dont have huge range -are almost melee-). The way this Bard is, right now, it does not compensate to make anything other than full support (mind the fact that u will have limited ability points and in the showcase Bucky had all spells to show us).

[@AszkalonOfVerra]

Being a bit of a Mage will not make a Supporter-Type like the Bard comparable to a genuine Damage Dealer i think, but maybe it will give new Possibilities like enhancing especially Mages. 😉😎

[@Patton243]

Bards weapons are instruments lol

[@Wasthatrob]

Abilities* weapons are seperate. This one's using a spellbook. Unless im wrong, but i think im right.

[@contaim7227]

​@Wasthatrob Thinking your right is dangerous lol, need proof to confirm you're right so you dont end up wrong.

[@Gibu_Auja]

Anyone and every class can wear any weapon or armor type, the spellbook was its own little like showcase within this. You can use swords if you wanted a spear as a bard whatever floats ur boat.

[@imthrillz5255]

I don’t care how great this game is looking, almost 8 years and still in alpha is crazy. If they continue like this then this game will die soon after it releases. What are we gonna be doing, waiting 5 years for bug fixes, updates, expacs? This is not how you manage a game.

[@andylarkin5779]

Theres zero shot im playing a healer in an open world pvp game. Bard does look interesting though.

[@papadwarf6762]

Whens alpha 3 then?

[@isth3reno1else]

They said a2 is in October and we will learn more on August 16th

[@littlefitterfitness3411]

Id love to make a cleric bard hybrid😂

[@VyrilGaming]

Did you call your construction company scammers?

[@isth3reno1else]

@@VyrilGaming no, but I did say that their product was vaporware 😏

[@blktauna]

Thor from pirate software has a giant guild set up already for this. You should see what he's doing. Might be interesting to you

[@isth3reno1else]

@@blktauna I'm actually posting a video about some of that today. It was very interesting

[@warthgaming9068]

Quite amusing that he plans on a 10.000+ People guild when the server doesn't even support that many people consecutively. That's gonna be a boring ass server to be on.

[@blktauna]

@@warthgaming9068 he actually has a plan for quest generation which I thought was very interesting.

[@Saintphoenix86]

Clickbait/ragebait thumbnail, it was barely delayed, and even then we were never given a hard date anyway so i hardly call it a delay

[@isth3reno1else]

It's a factual thumbnail because it was actually delayed.

[@Saintphoenix86]

@@isth3reno1else You know exactly what you were doing, and even then i call bullshit because even when they said 3/4 they said its their aim and hoping to, they never once committed to this being 100% when it was coming, so again yeah you know you were clickbait/ragebaiting with that thumbnail

[@isth3reno1else]

@@Saintphoenix86 They said last year that A2 would be in q3 of 2024. They said last month that they would give a day and month for A2 for the July livestream. Neither were done because it was delayed. As I said in the video, I am fine with waiting because it's just a month, but it was still delayed.

[@Forsaken66666]

dead on arrival

[@Reportbots]

Too much of a visual Western feel. Good idea for a game but Korean and Japanese MMORPG's dominate the market because of their visuals.

[@davidurban7346]

I can’t play it anyway. Imagine paying 75,000 dollars for a 25,000 dollar car so you can sit in the unfinished car in a factory. You also don’t know if the car will ever actually get made.

[@isth3reno1else]

you can follow along or not follow along for free. it's up to you

[@davidurban7346]

@@isth3reno1else I would relate to a comment like that on the street but you’ve chosen to put yourself out there. Grow up Peter Pan

[@isth3reno1else]

@@davidurban7346 i have a youtube channel about video games my guy.

[@davidurban7346]

@@isth3reno1else it wasn’t directed at youin particular. Just a general statement.