Bard mastery help

[Goldberg-Chessy]

Just put char together and am hoping someone can help me with the masteries.
Have peace, disco and music to 120 and did quests but could really use some practical advice on best setup and ways to use the spells.

 

[Lythos-]

I use disco masteries. Tribulation I use on high end mods to reduce their hit chance. Despair is a nice secondary damage spell to use on smaller creatures. These spells eat mana like mad too.

Don't forget you can change the damage type and mastery by left clicking the mastery book. If I remember right there's an 8 tile max distance before your spell stops. I could be off on the distance though.

 

[BeaIank]

Tribulation also works great if you have someone dealing big damage to the mob. You have a proc chance of dealing a percentage of the damage the other attackers did to the mob.
Despair you need to use sparingly. Both disco masteries eat mana like crazy, so if you're going to run both, I'd have wraith form scrolls to help keeping them running for long.

Peace mastery is pretty nice, but you need to be in a party for them to be effective. From my tests, they are not applied to summons, and I don't know if they apply to pets either.

For events, run disco mastery and try to keep tribulation up on the mob. Every time someone damages it, you will have a chance to damage it as well. Easy way to make to top damager.

 

[Chinese Man]

Peace mastery is pretty nice, but you need to be in a party for them to be effective. From my tests, they are not applied to summons, and I don't know if they apply to pets either.

Peace mastery does affect pets. The mana regen is great when training magery on pets.

 

[BeaIank]

Peace mastery does affect pets. The mana regen is great when training magery on pets.

This is good to know. The DCI and HPR will also increase the pet survivability. I ought to try that on a new tamer.

 

[Acid Rain]

Discord Navrey then hit her with Tribulation while the rocks are falling - it just destroys her.

 

[Goldberg-Chessy]

Thanks for all the info!

 

[Kirthag]

Also lots of info over in the Bard section: https://stratics.com/community/forums/uo-bard.415/