Nice Place to Re-Adjust

[Heshinar]

Well I re-activated my account from 3 years ago and I have my Bard Back.

Currently these are his stats and such.

Name: Bard: Half-Elf Profession: Bard (not shown)
Gender: Male Age: 43 Expr: 650105 Level: 23
Normal (Bonus) ... Enhanced (Bonus)
Strength (STR): 97 (23) ... 97 (23)
Constitution (CON): 61 (5) ... 61 (5)
Dexterity (DEX): 81 (20) ... 81 (20)
Agility (AGI): 87 (28) ... 87 (28)
Discipline (DIS): 65 (2) ... 65 (2)
Aura (AUR): 97 (23) ... 97 (23)
Logic (LOG): 45 (-2) ... 45 (-2)
Intuition (INT): 41 (-4) ... 41 (-4)
Wisdom (WIS): 67 (8) ... 67 (8)
Influence (INF): 99 (29) ... 99 (29)
Mana: 82 Silver: 1020


Bard (at level 23), your current skill bonuses and ranks (including all modifiers) are:
Skill Name | Current Current
| Bonus Ranks
Armor Use..........................| 86 19
Shield Use.........................| 111 27
Combat Maneuvers...................| 108 26
Edged Weapons......................| 150 50
Ambush.............................| 45 9
Multi Opponent Combat..............| 25 5
Physical Fitness...................| 108 26
Dodging............................| 90 20
Harness Power......................| 105 25
Elemental Mana Control.............| 15 3
Mental Mana Control................| 15 3
Survival...........................| 10 2
Disarming Traps....................| 70 15
Picking Locks......................| 74 16
Stalking and Hiding................| 40 8
Perception.........................| 130 35
Climbing...........................| 30 6
Swimming...........................| 25 5
First Aid..........................| 10 2
Trading............................| 35 7
Pickpocketing......................| 15 3

Spell Lists
Minor Elemental....................| 7

Spell Lists
Bard...............................| 15
Training Points: 27 Phy 37 Mnt
(Use SKILLS BASE to display unmodified ranks and goals)

Your 30 day migration period will begin when you choose to degrade a skill.


What I am wondering is this. What changes or such should I make since I have the option now. I prefer to keep him a OHE but wondering what might be a good adjustment.

[Myitkyina]

Hi,

I'm no expert on bards, but I can tell you how I've trained mine--it might be useful to you, because she's half-elven too and just a little bit older:

(at level 27), your current skill bonuses and ranks (including all modifiers) are:
Skill Name | Current Current
| Bonus Ranks
Armor Use..........................| 124 32
Shield Use.........................| 117 29
Combat Maneuvers...................| 117 29
Edged Weapons......................| 158 58
Multi Opponent Combat..............| 117 29
Physical Fitness...................| 117 29
Dodging............................| 74 16
Magic Item Use.....................| 40 8
Harness Power......................| 117 29
Elemental Lore - Air...............| 66 14
Mental Lore - Telepathy............| 117 29
Perception.........................| 25 5
Climbing...........................| 54 11
Swimming...........................| 25 5

Spell Lists
Minor Elemental....................| 3

Spell Lists
Bard...............................| 25


My sense with her at this level is that training is really about focusing on a few skills and making some sacrifices. You'll notice that she doesn't train in a lot of the skills that you do (no hiding, ambushing, trading, thieving, box picking, or even survival). She does fine without any of that--though sometimes I wish she had a bit of mana control (if she did, though, I'd make it all elemental). Looking at your training plan, I wonder if you've spread yourself too thin--you can do a lot of things, but do you do them well? I really don't know, that's just what occurs to me.

She has overemphasized armor a bit, because I wanted to get rid of the spell hinderance for brig, which she's been wearing for a long time now. I'll be happy when I can even armor out to 1x/level, but I don't regret the sacrified TPs for now. She also has a lot of MOC, and I like that. She's never really seemed like a hide/ambush type to me, so I don't try to play her that way, and the MOC gives her an edge and allows her to hunt swarms. The other big difference is lores--I have faith that they're helping me somehow, so I've dumped a lot of TPs into them. You might want to look into that. Again, I decided to focus on a couple lores, and let the others go.

Anyway, like I said, I'm not an expert. That's just what I do, and if it helps you, great--and if not, oh well.

[Heshinar]

Appreciate the info. When I started about ohhh 5 or 6 years ago I was shooting from the hip. I can probably down some skills and up a couple others.

Will try it and see what happens.