Provoke Bard with stealth?

[Cleophus]

I have a 7x GM Provo bard (provoke, hiding, music, magery, eval intel, meditation, and resist spells)

I recently discovered the joys of stealth and I was wondering if anyone had advice on using stealth with a bard character. Id drop resist for stealth so I could safely search for good mobs, escape, and get my body back if I die. I figure resist doesnt help me too often and the ability to stealth could compensate for my lack of resist in some areas: like getting close to mobs un detected, escaping from pks, traveling un noticed ect. What do you think?

 

[Malkraven]

i play my bard with no resist with little problems i just dont fight it out with reds . I just run/recall and return with my mage.

on a side note Tracking will detect people with gm hiding/stealth 50% of the time even at 0.0.

 

[Trigger]

I use something similar to this template and love it. I also have fishing instead of ei. It works great for finding good mobs/paragons and even better for recovering your items from your corpse should you die.

 

[Lexington]

I have a 7x GM Provo bard (provoke, hiding, music, magery, eval intel, meditation, and resist spells)

I recently discovered the joys of stealth and I was wondering if anyone had advice on using stealth with a bard character. Id drop resist for stealth so I could safely search for good mobs, escape, and get my body back if I die. I figure resist doesnt help me too often and the ability to stealth could compensate for my lack of resist in some areas: like getting close to mobs un detected, escaping from pks, traveling un noticed ect. What do you think?

I know if you go off screen the mobs quit fighting... do they stay fighting if you're hidden and still on screen?

 

[Malkraven]

No, well not if you invis using spell unsure about the hide skill

 

[Karl Sagan]

At gm hiding the mobs stay provoked.

I think stealth bard would be a riot, great for recovering bodies (and looting them as well). Plus you can stealth up and Provo mobs onto people, works wonders with tamers who stand right next to paragons...

 

[parsnip]

There was a gargoyle paragon at an IDOC yesterday and this stealther named Kenny Loggins kept provoking my EVs onto me - Was quite entertaining. He also had detect hidden in his build, seemed to be a masterful troller

 

[Panik Homerché]

I played my THunter with Hiding, Stealth, Music and Provoke (as well as LPing, Carto, Magery) for a while and had a blast. I agree that Stealthing up to an "optimal Provoking location" (whatever the f... that means) should make up for the loss of Magic Resist, as far as PvE is concerned.

 

[the Face]

i think theres only 3 classes that need stealth:

thieves, dungeon chest pickers, and stealth mages. maybe resource gatherers, but thats pretty much it. every other template having hiding AND stealth is practically useless, unless youre a *****.

 

[parsnip]

having hiding AND stealth is practically useless, unless youre a *****.

He speaks truth... I want hiding/stealth on all my characters