Bard as main puller

[kywyn]

Do any bards out there serve as main puller in their parties? When mass chaining VTs I always have extra time between sets of songs, and the main limiting factor for xp gain is the amount of time it takes for the paladin or one of the melees to disengage after a battle, run out, find a monster, and bring it back.

As bard I sing melee songs, blink, and then go out and look for the next monster and pull with elegy (no delay after singing, unlike threnodies). When I get back I sleep the monster right next to the melees (who are almost done killing their current monster) and go sing ballad 1 and 2 for the mages, and then repeat. At 59 in cape terrigan we averaged 6k an hour.

Naturally this doesn't work for ITs because of timing issues, but for chaining VTs it's great. Many chain 6's ^^

[Seeker_Onos]

I have only done "opportunistic pulls", such as on Beetles at a revetment not to far from Revelation Rock in Altepa... a beetle will spawn a short distance away, and I will sleep it and hold it in reserve so to speak, when the PT has the current monster down to its last 10% of health.

Never thought about actively pulling though

[Outaru]

I pulled a lot in khazam, pull means as the last person mentioned sleep until party is ready for it. We had no choice the area was heavily camped so when stuff spawned I slept it. Couple of LS parties I actively pulled and it was great fun

And yeah exp rolled.

But there have been occassions when there were adds and I almost died, but I did a horde lullaby and ran to zone.

[Vilurum]

I did some pulling with Lullaby from 31-33 in Yhoator in an LS PT. It was fun. I'd run out, sleep the hardest mandy or gob I could find, run back in time to rebuff the WHM, and when I was just finishing with that and starting the melee buffs, the enemy was arriving and the tank voked it when it got there.

Lullaby pulling does work well if you have the time to run off and do it. Generally works better on high chains of not-IT enemies. For the IT enemies you'll usually want to stick around and help the PT fight.

[grunion]

ive only really pulled once and that was when the ranger pulled inrecibly slowly, so i took over and pulled faster than anyone has ever seen. i had monsters back at camp before the previous one even died. everyone was annoyed but no one died and we got massive xp for a few hours :D

[Faranim]

I'm considering Bard as a puller too.

The big thing about bard is that we don't engage, and so we can start looking for a new monster before the current one is even dead.

Combined with sleep, you could theoretically have the next monster sitting there ready to be attacked the instant the current one dies... making EXP chains much more possible.

The only problem I could see is that if you pull too quickly, or take too much damage while pulling you may create a lot of un-necessary downtime.

[grunion]

IT+++ also tend to resist sleep now and then and kill a taru bard fast