Halandriel

Well, I've been playing a trouby for two weeks now, and I'm actually starting to like him (aside from the fact that my damage output is far from optimal at this time ).

However, there's a few basic questions with answers that I expected to find stickied somewhere and unfortunately did not...

So I made a little list of things that I would love to know as a rookie trouby (on top of the excellent AA thread) and that I didn't immediately find here, hoping that maybe we can do something about that.

Without further ado:
- What's the trouby world wide channel?
- Do we ever really use our ranged weapons? (except maybe on pull)
- What stats are most important for a trouby (item-wise)
- What modifiers are most important for a trouby (I found the answer to both this one and the previous question after a bit of searching, but a sticky would help new players find it faster methinks)
- Cast order... Probably needs its very own sticky so there's plenty of room for discussion

My opinion of course, your mileage may very.

Dants

1) I don't know. It was guk.troubador but that one broke. I haven't been in one since.

2) Yes, in raids on ranged mobs in raids or when kiting when soloing. Obv you won't be using them 90% of the time.

3) STA (HP), STR (melee dps), INT (spell dps), AGI means jack shit.

4) DPS mod, melee crit, spell crit are most important ATM.

5) I made a post about casting order a long time ago in the EoF days. Most of it still applies, someone could look it up if they were interested.

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Esio

1- I dont really care about WWC because im on pvp server.
2- Yes you use your bow all the time because you have a spell that do stiffle and make double damage.
3- Int and Str its what i use on PvP server but my stats are awsome for PvE
4- increase you double attack and melee crit, your auto attack will comming your best damage.
5- at low lvl its important to debuff your opponant and pull with stiffle and snare right after like that you can make alot of damage at distance, but at lvl 80 with tso gear or raid x2 tso gear you will love to melee.

There is my old spec its awsome for PvE but dont use that kind of spec on raid.
since you get 170 aa use that spec after 170 try to get melee crit and upgrade to night strike and the cherry ( Upbeat Tempo). i have tried a ton of combination of spec and that one work very well for me.

My pvp, pve spec

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Halandriel

Thanks for the help guys, I'll definitely need to turn my character around a little, way too much AGI and too little INT

On average (against trash mobs let's say...) what is our spell/ca dmg ratio? From what I've read and heard, it seems like STR should be the primary concern, followed by STA and then INT, but opinions seem to differ quite a bit.

Dants, you said DPS, Melee and Spell crit are most important, does that mean I shouldn't even bother with Double Attack?

Also, what about weapons, I haven't specifically searched for it, but the thought pretty much just jumped into my head. I kinda started out with the idea that bards would use knifes, probably a preconception, since our epic/myth is an axe... What is the general opinion on an ideal delay for a trouby weapon?

Sioned

guk.troubadors = ww channel

4.0 delay

Esio

yea 4 sec delay with higher damage

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Werdar

I run str/sta/int as my big three stats. You should definatly bother with double attack, but imo if your choosing between DPS and DA effects your going to get a better bump out of the DPS. Fortunatly alot of the items as you level are usually 2-3 different melee effects so you wind up getting a good amount of both.

Right now I am using 2x slash, one being the epic(Fabled). But there are also a good amount of piercers out there so don't neglect that skill. Like Sioned said, 4.0 delay with as high as you can find top end damage.

Bow attack, when you get to kunark it comes in real handy as when you first get there your goign to get raped if you go toe to toe (most likely) so kite, And theres a good number of encounters that you have to range so the bow definatly comes in handy, and can put out some nasty damage + the stifle.

Dants

No. Double attack is important as well. Since we're a hybrid class, we get screwed and need pretty much everything, unlike a mage or warrior who just need 1 type.

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