[Benren]

The pants may not have the best effect, but they are a higher level group speed with a 1 second casting time (easier to twist). The BP is fscking Warsong of Zek, so step off moron.

God damn, did you actually attempt to flame someone by telling them they like to hear the sound of thier own voice? Because you're as big a flamebait as I've seen on this board, and that puts you in some pretty exclusive company.

Welcome to Bard 101 : Beginner's Barding.

- Hey, let me ask you something. kk, listen up. Sit up straight. Thinking cap on.

When was the last time you grouped with someone twisting fucking Selo's?

- Welcome to the age of the proc weapon. Wait, it just occured to me that you might not be familair. You see, a proc weapon is any weapon that has a spell-life effect on it that "procs", or processes, at random, with there being a chance that this weapon will process each time you strike a monster. k?

Well, bards get proc weapons, too. I'm pretty sure you're aware of one of them. It's called the Singing Short Sword, and it's the only epic in the game you'll ever see any character weilding during a fight if they have end-zone gear. Why? Because it procs the single best group-wide proc buff in this game. Fourty points of raw, spell-based attack. (And a 60% haste, not really that great these days. Not mentioning the all instrument convenience and sing amplification.)

Along with the proc from the Singing Short Sword, most bards have inventories full of proccing weapons with procs they like and use in combat on a regular basis. Personally, I switch out four weapons in combat just for the procs, three if I'm grouped with an enchanter - Primal spear, SSS, Orb of Tishan, and Toetwister. Then we start getting into bard-only weapons or bard-favored weapons with proc damage, like Blackout or the Burning Rapier.

Still with me? Good.

Now, as of a few months ago, a Bard proccing a weapon means his casting bar blanks out if he's in the process of singing. Boo fucking hoo, right? Well, maybe so, if you were a regular hybrid. But a bard's casting bar is always active. If I am grouped, there is not a single moment where my casting bar is not filled with the juice. If I proc, my casting bar blanks out. The song is still in the process of being sung, however. The casting bar is ticking down, you just can't see it. This is why, if you look at Lucy, a good chunk of the spell changes over the past few months have been additions to bard songs that did not have wears off messages or messages that indicated that they were active, giving these songs those messages. Those of us that are buried under proccing weapons have developed faster reflexes as pertaining to our twisting, achieving the ability to time songs without the aid of the casting bar, relying on a combination of natural timing and spell spam. These spell changes aid that. However...

This new ability we've been forced to develop - knowing when to start a new song without the aid of a casting bar so as to not have to abort a song mid-cast and drop a twist - depends on one thing. All bard songs have the same cast time.

See where I'm going with this?

I, personally, do not have the network latency nor the natural rhythm to be timing different casting times over my procs. A lot of bards I've talked with about the 3.0 cast on Composer's BP agree - either make it instant with an extended duration, as is the pattern for some bard clicks, or give it the 6.0 casting time and be done with it.


But all of this disregards two simple points.

1.) Warsong of Zek is not a rare song. I've had it in my bank from before the moment I could scribe it, and it sells for under 2k on most servers. You might like Warsong of Zek. Congratulations, it's a pretty fucking own song, you have good song taste. But this has ZERO business on a PoP quested BP, ornate or otherwise. Maybe on the arms. Hell, maybe not even there. To put this into perspective for you, this on the BP is the same thing as a component-cost Virtue on the cleric BP. It's a useful spell, you don't have to mem it to cast it, but you'd much, much rather have something more useful on your breastplate slot.

2.) WE HAD SELO'S CLICK ON OUR VELIOUS BREASTPLATE, CAPTAIN ASSFUCK.

That is all.