For you experienced Bone Dancers

[Otho]

Now when assist nuking seems to be the way to RvR I got some questions about using several Bone Dancers in the same group. I know that Bone Dancers have problems with getting groups in RvR as they are seen as having nothing to bring to a group (/em waves to Brite). But what happens if you have a BD heavy group with speed and CC?

Would it be viable to have 3 supp BD:s and a Dark SM/Dark BD body debuffing? The rest of the group could be skald, healer, tank, shammie or any other kind of BD heavy group? If you have tried it please say how it worked out.

Constructive and reasonable feed-back wanted (I bet that some person will post some thing "1-button-for-the-winn, no skillz BD" etc. By doing so you do you winn the "FH-least-wanted-reply-of-the-day-award)

 

[Funkybunny]

1-button-for-the-winn, no skillz BD!!!


(did i win)

 

[Asty]

Moon Tribe used to run a bd group on excal and they did well with it afaik. The main advantage in bd group is that it has shitloads of interrupts and bd's dont die so quick.

 

[SkarIronfist]

I would personally go for a Dark Carver for cold debuff, instead of Dark SM. Since the downside of debuffing for a supp BD is the 4 secs between LTs. So its better to go Lvl 50 Darkness DD (since you can do 2 - 3 casts in the same time 4 sec time period).

The LT is a nice spoiler spell, to be used to interupt a healer/caster to get the initiative back. Added bonus it returns your health. Also since you get now 10% piercing, that will increase the damage of your LT without having someone debuff for a spell that can't be used that frequently.

 

[harm]

The body debuff from a dark sm lasts 15 seconds tho, compared to 8 second cold debuff from a runemaster.

Lifetapping casters with intercept pet lasts abit longer

 

[gnafse]

Dark BD body debuff is insta if i'm not mistaken.

 

[harm]

It is.

 

[SkarIronfist]

Yes it may be a longer duration, but I would prefer to do my damage in 4 seconds not 12.

I am not saying that you don't use the insta LT and the Dark DD at the same time, but I would prefer to have my cold DDs debuffed. A supp BD can already partially debuff there own LT anyway.

 

[Ingafgrinn Macabre]

throw in some BA's for the tank action and the distraction.

 

[SkarIronfist]

Leave the BD BAs on the shelf where they belong.

 

[Ingafgrinn Macabre]

I disagree. I've been grouping with a BA-BD a couple of times now (Duria) and it's a superclass. okay you have less fancy spells and such, but they rule nontheless. I'll prolly make one of them aswell.. once I hit 50 with Ingaf.

 

[emma]

Another thing to remember is both alb and hib will have high body resists normally around the 50% mark.

Alb rarely has cold resist buffs and hib have blue/yellow ones.