Inspire Excellence really?

[redrose]

As a bard lover I would just like to put this out there ... 30 sec cool down Really? Everybody wants one. Everybody asks for one. Hey chan can i have the con song?.... yes you can when the cooldown is done. Hey chan can i have the wis song?... yes you can when the cooldown is done. Can we possibly shorten the cool down please? So Im not still singing the same group of songs at the end of the quest ty...

[maddmatt70]

I have some problems with inspire excellence myself. Great buff which real bard lovers like me and you feel we have to give out to everyone that asks for a stat buff or even sometimes when people do not, but playing 4-6 additional songs at every shrine is painful and slows down things so much. I have to resort to playing songs on the run all the time and what it all means is I spend a lot more of my time playing a bard playing buff songs . Bards are not just about buffing but we are also about actually doing something lol. Why can the devs not just make this one song that provides the buff to all 6 stats? Why is that a bad thing or are bards meant to just play 10 songs and cast buff spells and not do anything else..

[Chai]

I like D&D games BECAUSE OF these types of dilemas, not despite them.

I have no issues keeping the stat buffs rotating. Rare are the parties that require all 6 stats to be buffed. Different party make up requires different priorities for stat buffs.

[maddmatt70]

I like D&D games BECAUSE OF these types of dilemas, not despite them.

I have no issues keeping the stat buffs rotating. Rare are the parties that require all 6 stats to be buffed. Different party make up requires different priorities for stat buffs.

Really? Because that is not what I see. Monks, Clerics, Fvs, Monkchers = wisdom, Wizard and perhaps rogues = Int, Bards and sorcerers = charisma. All melee or ranged = strength, All characters = con, Dex = benefit to all characters but lets just restrict to rogue, etc. Rare is the party that does not require at least 4 songs and the usual is 5 and sometimes 6. Perhaps you are one of those that does not buff. Well some of us feel bards have to do their job and some people are what have yous.

[redrose]

Really? Because that is not what I see. Monks, Clerics, Fvs, Monkchers = wisdom, Wizard and perhaps rogues = Int, Bards and sorcerers = charisma. All melee or ranged = strength, All characters = con, Dex = benefit to all characters but lets just restrict to rogue, etc. Rare is the party that does not require at least 4 songs and the usual is 5 and sometimes 6. Perhaps you are one of those that does not buff. Well some of us feel bards have to do their job and some people are what have yous.

I couldnt have said it any better....

[Chai]

Really? Because that is not what I see. Monks, Clerics, Fvs, Monkchers = wisdom, Wizard and perhaps rogues = Int, Bards and sorcerers = charisma. All melee or ranged = strength, All characters = con, Dex = benefit to all characters but lets just restrict to rogue, etc. Rare is the party that does not require at least 4 songs and the usual is 5 and sometimes 6. Perhaps you are one of those that does not buff. Well some of us feel bards have to do their job and some people are what have yous.

I buff all necessary buffs.

I can keep a full rotation of all stats on that buff AND inspire courage up if I wanted. Its just not necessary in most cases. Ive been playing bards since day one in this game. Paying attention to the timers on short duration buffs is second nature to me.

[redrose]

I buff all necessary buffs.

I can keep a full rotation of all stats on that buff AND inspire courage up if I wanted. Its just not necessary in most cases. Ive been playing bards since day one in this game. Paying attention to the timers on short duration buffs is second nature to me.

Ive been playing a bard or two or eight since since i started playing this game as well, and i pride myself on keeping all the songs going that benefit my party members. And at the same time being more than just a buff bot to them.

[BoBoDaClown]

They need to remove cool downs on all buff songs and allow us to chain sing them - i.e. quickly click one after another and it immediatly apply each one while the music is going - no waiting for the songs to finish etc, because at the moment it is rediculous.

[Gadget2775]

Between spells and songs I loose a good chunk of game time to micro-managing buffs. I'd really love a way to consolidate some of the song, especially with all the new song and conflicting cool-downs.

Posted an idea for new auto-grant feat a while ago called Bardic Montage. Thinking it'd allow dragging x number of songs into slots within the feat, singing the montage would set off all attached song. Preferably the number of song per montage would increase as you level up, and at certain points we'd gain additional montages.

[xveganrox]

Just play the Constitution song, it's the one that really matters to everyone, and when they see those extra HP they'll stop complaining about not getting their main stat song

[ZeebaNeighba]

yeah completely /signed for shortening the cooldown
and I hear it doesn't stack with +1 exceptional, really? It seems like Turbine is trying to make bard songs not as unique to bards as they used to be, especially with the ship buff enchantment dc change in u13 to morale so it doesnt stack with the spellsinger song

[dTarkanan]

I think we should be able to spend 10 songs or something along those lines to do a party stat buff instead- single stat for single person for a single song that everyone wants is going to be kind of ludicrous.