Optimal Weapon Choice For a Human SS

[nolaureltree000]

im working on leveling up my first bard, a human pure bard SS. im not taking any melee feats, im focusing on CC and healing. my starting build stats were 14str/8dex/16con/8int/8wis/18cha. im currently at level 8 and am putting all leveling build points into CHA.

currently ive been running with longswords/maces + a shield, mostly for the ease of weapon availability and the shield makes for a nice place to slot my fortification item. but once i get my minos, i dont see much point in continuing to run with a shield.

what would be my optimal weapon choice with this sort of a build that would help to maximize my meager melee DPS contributions? my previous toons are a caster and a monk so im not very familiar with armed melee fighting. looking through the bard forum, i didnt find anything that directly addressed this, so any help or input would be greatly appreciated.

[Aeolwind]

A support weapon: Paralyzing, cursespewing, destruction, etc. Divine power scrolls can help, but without IC, PA, etc your DPS is gonna be fairly pathetic as a spellsinger.

Better off dropping mass suggestion, then hasting them.

Edit:

Keep the songs up, keep the casters on crack, and crowd control your way to victory. Good CC from a SS trivializes virtually everything. I ran virtually every quest on elite as I leveled my bard with 2 buddies Wiz/ftr & AA and we walked through everything.

[nolaureltree000]

im working on obtaining some paralyzing bows and whatnot and will be focusing on CC/buffing/healing mostly. but when it comes time for me to pick up a weapon and beat on something what should i go for? would master's touch + a great axe be viable? that was my first inclination.

i realize my dps is going to be teh suck, but what would allow me to increase my dps as much as possible with this build.

[kaleid0star]

im working on leveling up my first bard, a human pure bard SS. im not taking any melee feats, im focusing on CC and healing. my starting build stats were 14str/8dex/16con/8int/8wis/18cha. im currently at level 8 and am putting all leveling build points into CHA.

currently ive been running with longswords/maces + a shield, mostly for the ease of weapon availability and the shield makes for a nice place to slot my fortification item. but once i get my minos, i dont see much point in continuing to run with a shield.

what would be my optimal weapon choice with this sort of a build that would help to maximize my meager melee DPS contributions? my previous toons are a caster and a monk so im not very familiar with armed melee fighting. looking through the bard forum, i didnt find anything that directly addressed this, so any help or input would be greatly appreciated.

If you have the hp going toe-to-toe with the melee then yes a greataxe with some special effect would suffice, if not then a ranged weapon will do

[SetofBs]

I'm running the exact same build right now. He's almost to level 6. I started out using a greataxe, and that's probably the most optimal for DPS. Lately though I've just been using a Q-staff, just because I like it and don't need to cast master's touch all the time.

I think once you start getting up to a level where you have access to cursespewers and paralizers and such, those are were you need to go to make sure your melee is actually doing something of benefit.

[fartlord]

im lvl'n a bard lvl 12 atm,what i did is got a +4 icy burst great axe of pure good.

i cast hold monster=auto crit time.
3x crit with 2-20 burst.
things go down pretty fast if the hold sticks,works well in giant hold with high fort low will mobs.

[BLU3_FR0G]

3 words.

The-Mad-Lute.

Because it's class required Bard that clearly means it's the ultimate Bard weapon! Why are we even haveing this conversation!?

Ok, but seriously. On my Bard SS I use a Greenblade and Superior Potency 6 Sickle.

The Greenblade may not be readily available to everyone let alone a Bard, but a Superior Potency 6 weapon of anykind can usually be found on the AH for fairly cheap (except Kama's) or they will also drop in the shroud often.

[simsiim]

I was going to just redo the whole post here, then add the credit, but heck a link to it would be better.
http://forums.ddo.com/showpost.php?p...3&postcount=20

it list:
Dreamspitter
The Mad Lute
Gwylan's Blade
Elyd Edge
Epic Dynastic Falcata

[Jaid314]

no epic sword of shadows? (hey, just because every THF fighter and barb on the server are going to hate you, doesn't mean it isn't good. in fact, i would argue it's better for you than for them... you can use the to-hit more than they can