Bard InstumentsFollow

Quick questions re. bards and instruments. For which parts of the song cycle do I need to have an instrument equipped in order to get the full instrument amplified effect for the entire duration of the song?

i.e. if this is the cycle:

1) Hit hotbutton: /cast 1
2) Cast delay (during which you can miss a note)
3) Song starts - effect starts
4) Song ends - effect ends

Do I need the instrument equipped:

a) Only at the point of hitting hotbutton to cast?
b) Until the song starts?
c) Until the song ends?

Many thanks.

P.S. Bandoliers make barding much easier I imagine. I can only begin to imagine the pain of constantly swapping instruments manually.

/ding level 20

You need to equip the instrument before the song starts. For example:
You might be chant kiting with drums equipped and for added damage you add the one minute dot Angstlich's Assonance which uses a brass instrument. It's ok to start casting Angstlich's Assonance and then switch to brass as long as you get the instrument in before you finish casting. You can then switch back to drums and Angstlich's Assonance will give the full brass mod damage each tick till song ends.



Edited, Thu Nov 3 06:15:59 2005 by Elvo

Heh, yes, I guess epic 2 helps out a wee little :)

Great to have you back. What's the name of your little mangina?

Patsings Soul

Indeed - little half-elf thingy.

I believe it only has to be equipped for the split second the song fires at.

but it would be easy to test with selos. start it without a drum equipped, equip it right before selos goes off... do you go drum speed or not? tahdah, answer

wouldn't it be even esier to test with stats/resist songs? driving a selo speed needs full concentration :]

Is it also true that the target I hit with a song, is the target I have at the end of the cast, rather than at the start of the cast?

Goalkeeper is correct. but beware of a reoccouring bug where your weapon procs a targeted effect when you are attacking a different mob and the bug will cause you to switch the song landing target to that mob. if I make sense...