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An AA Bard Tree Example


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STR Tree Line


Turnstrike. For more info, read about Turnstrike in the Combat Art and Hostile Spell Notes.

bladeturn.pngbladesing.png The remainder of the Strength AA tree line is useful when below level80 (tier9). At level80, these skills on items become quite abundant to the point where the AA enhancements become less beneficial due to the attribute curve.

Destiny of Velious notes is the most recent change to the agility and strength attributes. Compiled Explanation of SF Mechanics is the recent edition that points out changes to the strength and agility stats. Prior to this, GU29 was the latest change to stats/avoidance/mitigation rules that I have found.

bladedance.png Protects the group against area effect abilities that do not directly target them. Read Dirge's Abilities for more information.



AGI Tree Line


bump.jpg A flanking, or behind, direct damage attack that also gives you coin and grants the Dirge stealth, or "sneak mode". Read Dirge's Abilities for more information.

wayfarers_watch Wayfarer's Warch is useful when below level80 (tier9). At level80, these skills on items become quite abundant to the point where the AA enhancements become less beneficial due to the attribute curve.

poison_concoction.png Poison Concoction (rank 8) has a 24% chance, on a combat hit or spell, to cast a 24 second Poison damage over time (DoT). Each rank only improves the trigger chance. Each rank does not improve the damage, does not improve the ticks, and does not increase the duration. The only reason to put more ranks into Poison Concoction is so you get the front end damage more often from the Poison DoT.

When comparing the damage from rank upgrades between Turnstrike, Bump, and Rhythm Blade, then the result will show Bump receives the most damage upgrade per rank.

vanishingact.jpg Vanishing Act, agility endline, puts your entire group into stealth including pets and this activates a "forced retreat" command. The "forced retreat" command turns off the group's autoattack and calls all pets to "back off", or retreat. Vanishing Act also has instant casting speed and instant revovery speed to activate "sneaking" used for Scream of Death and Misfortune's Kiss.



STA Tree Line


roundbash.jpg A shield attack that does direct damage and throws, stuns, and blurs enemy. Read Dirge's Abilities for more information.

skalds_defense.png For soloing, rank 10 will help you out very noticeably, when a Roundshield is equipped, with survivability until your character becomes much better equipped. For damage application, to determine whether to choose Sword+Shield for the +Multi Attack (MA) bonus from Skald's Defense or to dual-wield, utilize the following double attack DPS equation:
1) DPS for single wielding = MA% * DR;
2) DPS for dual wielding = MA% * [ { DR1 - (.33 * DR1) } + { DR2 - (.33 * DR2) } ] .

DR is damage rating, DR1 is weapon 1 damage rating, DR2 is weapon 2 damage rating, .33 is incurred from dual wielding

fortissimo.jpg Fortissimo. Increases your group's Multi Attack. Read Dirge's Abilities for more information.

lend_shielding.jpg Lend Shielding. Allows the Dirge to completely block a melee attack for them self or for others. Read Dirge's Abilities for more information.



WIS Tree Line


messengersletter.jpg Messenger's Letter. A direct damage bow attack. Read Dirge's Abilities for more information.

harbingers_sonnet.png Harbinger's Sonnet (rank10). Improves Selo's Accelerando in-combat movement speed by 15% and increases out-combat movement speed by 10%.

allegro.jpg Allegro. Increases the casting speed of the Dirge's group. Read Dirge's Abilities for more information.

dontkillthemessenger.jpg Don't Kill the Messenger. Increases the critical chance of the Dirge's group. Read Dirge's Abilities for more information.



INT Tree Line


rhythmblade.jpg Rhythm Blade. A direct damage attack that also buffs the Dirge's combat, casting, and focus skills. Read Dirge's Abilities for more information.

minstrels_ariaminstrels_melody The remainder of the Intelligence AA tree line is useful when below level80 (tier9). At level80, these skills on items become quite abundant to the point where the AA enhancements become less beneficial due to the attribute curve.

heroicstorytelling.jpg Heroic Story Telling. Increases the effectiveness of the Dirge's goup member's heroic opportunities by 50%.



Sundered Frontier Bard Tree Line


bladedance.png Improved Relfexes (rank 8). Reduces the reuse timer of Bladedance by 200 seconds.

bump.jpg Stealthy Ambush (rank 8) improves the reuse of Bump by 10 seconds. This allows Bump to have the same reuse as Misfortune Kiss, and also this is a very nice damage boost to Bump.

allegro.jpg Swift Voices (rank 8) adds a buff to Allegro that increases Ability Recovery Speed of group members by 32%. This reduces the .5 second default reocvery time to .38 seconds. This is a very noticeable change to casting routine since recovery time is downtime you experience with every single ability cast, unless noted otherwise in the examine description. The cast savings offered by this enhancement adds up when your casting speed is buffed very high when doing your Rythmic Overture routine.

rhythmblade.jpg Precise Blade (rank 8) buffs Rhythm Blade with 8% resistability reduction of spells and adds 6% Accuracy to your autoattacks.

rhytmicoverture.jpg Rhythmic Overture (rank 2). Requires 4 points for rank2. Read Rythmic Overture (RO) & Victorious Concerto (VC) implementation for more information.

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