Did you use a Demon slayer Instrument like Lolos? I pulled one with my tamer, and brought my 4 x 120 bard in, the bard failed twice then was eaten. I did not get the not up to task message.
UPDATE: So looks like it was the instrument itself [Tamborine bought in Skara] I grabbed my kiddo's account who has a disco tamer as well and bought some drums, both worked. So something weird with the npc bought tamborine.... maybe because I was using it while training? I'm not sure.
Weird, but resolved.
npc, +0% success
exceptional +10%
slayer +20%
With out a doubt Bards need love with the mega monsters we face these days i fail way more than i should at 4X 120....
I'll absolutely second that. It's a huge point investment that really does not measure up as a solo class. At the very least if there were a way to share the songs with everyone on screen and not be in a party/have to deal with party reduction in loot they'd be more welcome at fights.
After all of these years, we still can't equip a musical instrument...such a shame.
I think the masteries are solid as are. every group wants a bard running the provo or peace mastery !! and you drop group at end of boss fights . even just discoing and healing when running a mastery you are gonna get looting rights and drops. yes i want to equip my Lute the one i crafted and imbued.. or maybe they can whip up a potion they can sell that lets us add stats..
A question about the usage of "Slayer" instruments....
Say that one has multiple instruments in one's own backpack, some non-slayer, others of various slayers types, does the game sees it automatically which slayer to use for the bonus or does the Bard need to do something in order to have that particular Slayer instrument to be the one actually used for that Provoke, Peace or whatever using the Slayer bonus ?
Just as a side note for those who might not know (maybe I was just slow on the pick up and everyone knows) but to change your instrument you are playing in your pack you just double click the instrument you want to play. For years I thought I had to remove the instrument I was playing from my pack and use the music skill and have it target the instrument lol
Reminder that you receive a 10% bonus on skill use for your selected bard mastery.
