Llewrend

Saw this in the inqy forums and I thought, hey that's cool. Let's see some ideas!

Singing Short Sword
FABLED
LORE NO-TRADE
56 str 48 agi 42 int
278 health 243 power
+15 slashing +15 disruption
Sonata of Rage
Minstrel's Supremacy
Focus: Raxxyl's Brazen Descant
Sword
One-Handed Slashing
Damage 178 - 321 (85 Rating)
Delay 1.8 seconds
Weight 3.0
Level 80
Troubador
Effects:

• When Equipped, applies Sonata of Rage:
  Increases DPS Mod by 15
  Melee Crit Chance up 8%

• When Equipped:
  When target casts any spell this spell has a chance to cast Minstrel's Supremacy on target. Lasts for 24.0 seconds. This effect will trigger an average of 2.7 times per minute. On a successful melee attack:
  Deals 328 slashing damage
  Adds 25 attack speed/haste

• Applies Focus: Raxxyl's Brazen Descant when equipped:
  Effects of Raxxyl's Brazen Descant increased by 15%

Dirk of the Crescendo
FABLED
LORE NO-TRADE
43 str 46 agi 57 int
248 health 277 power
+15 piercing +15 disruption
Lyrical Dominance
Forced Discordance
Focus: Precision of the Maestro
Dagger
One-Handed Piercing
Damage 52 - 521 (85 Rating)
Delay 3.5 seconds
Weight 3.0
Level 80
Troubador
Effects:

• When Equipped, applies Lyrical Dominance:
  Increases effects of all buffs by 7%.
  Increases damage done by all attacks by 10%

• When Equipped:
  When target casts any spell this spell has a chance to cast Forced Discordance on target. This effect will trigger an average of 2.7 times per minute.
  On a successful hostile spell has a chance to:
  Deals 450 points of mental damage

• Applies Focus: Precision of the Maestro when equipped:
  Daze and Root effects are removed
  Damage of Precise Note increased 100.

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Uyaem

Nice ones ;)
However they seem to be rather "Mythical" and beyond, judging from the effects they have...= ;)

northland

First of all, why 2 one-handers, we are primarily a dual-wielding class, we should get 2 DW's instead of a one-hander.

Another issue I have is the delay of the first one, it's way too short, if you want it to be bard catered item it needs a delay of 2+ seconds, preferrably 3+ like the second one.

The crit range on the first one is a bit crappy aswell, not to mention the fact that it's slashing. How many peices of loot out there has +slash on them. Not very many, and seeing as we don't have a stance to improve our skills we are left to gear modifiers only.
I'd take a piercer over a slasher any day unless the slasher is clearly supreme.

Sameth

Yeah gonna agree here, we being primarly dw and there is no real reason to have 2 1handers when we are forced to take our current aa it you raid where a 1h is rather usless in my opinion. What you have here is rather nice and would love to see something like this in game....but yeah from past SOE I think their creation will fall rather short of what you want.

Should toss up a dw and see what ya come up with bro, love the ones ya have up just wish something similar will come true from SoE.

Stealthy

I agree, we definately want something in a dual wield version, probably two weapons with high delay and preferably of a piercing nature rather than slash as there is a dearth of +slash modded gear and the devs have hinted at removing the weapon type restriction tied to AA's.

What I would really, really like to see is an epic that gives us extra concentration. We as the proverbial buff class are restricted to the same number of concentration slots that all classes enjoy, which, imo is not realistic or fair. The easy way, of course for SOE to remedy this is to reduce the number of our songs that require concentration (hint, hint, Daelis, etc) but SOE hasn't woken up to the fact that us Bards still need a 'revamp'. There seems to be quite a gap between the Troubador and Dirge classes still, with the Dirges coming out on top. A few examples: PoTM dazing the Troub, while the Dirges enjoy the ability to cast spells with their version; Dirges buffing Parry which enhances adornments that produce effects (such as heal) on a successful Parry, where Troubs get the shaft as there are no such adornments that take advantage of extra Defense. The Dirge AA ability that up the proc percentage of items, which arguably should have gone to Troubs as the 'caster' Bard. Etc, etc.

Sorry to digress a bit off topic, but I really hope SOE actually listens to us Troubs for something as 'iimportant' as epic weapon(s) and give us something that doesn't suck like the (3) and (7) Troub armor set effects do.

Llewrend

Bah, I meant for them to be dual wield. Brain fart when copy pasting the main body of it from the inquisitor forums. Please forgive me!

EDIT - Also, the motif with those two are to be so people have the choice of getting a brutish melee based sword, or the refined-caster dirk. Was simply making 2 to fit the different styles available.

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Kouros

Llewrend, where can I find the link to have you apply as a game dev for items?

The caster sword you have their would be amazing

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northland

Well if it's meant to be a DW I would definitley be going for the dirk, has a nice delay and a beasty crit range and I really like the effects on it.

northland

IF you had READ what Llewrend posted they are supposed to be DW's, it's a typo.

Gratz on your leet skills of reading comprehension Calbiyum.

Stealthy

Let me add my grats to Calbiyum the forum troll who, although he no longer plays EQ2, seems to think that we actually care about his opinion. WTB a forum /ignore command.