What are the best stats for Bards?

[MarkG38]

<div>I started a troub on PVP for my guild. I was wondering what the best stats are for a bard.  Is Int or Wis important with songs?</div>

[Bartimaeus]

<div>Int is the damage, and IMO is the most important stat for your damage and percentage to hit. Strength increases melee dps and agility is power pool. Stamina and wisdom are mainly for defensive, and redundant imo.</div>

[Mathe]

<div></div><p>INT doesn't effect whether spells are resisted. Casting skills effect that.</p><p>STR - increases melee damage</p><p>AGI - increases power pool (more than INT does) and improves avoidance</p><p>STA - increases health</p><p>WIS - increases resists</p><p>INT - increases spell damage and power pool (not as well as AGI does)</p>

[911GT3]

What I look for in gear is str and int, I try and keep these 2 the highest because that will help me do the most dps I can. I rarely run outa power and if you have the int, you dont realy need to worry about the agil.<div></div>

[Cygnu]

<div></div><p>This has been discussed many times with people having different views on the subject.</p><p>For me INT in the most important for its effect on song damage. Songs are our bit hitters.</p><p>Then STR for its effect on auto attack and CS damage. We need all the DPS we can get.</p><p>Then AGL I guess for the extra power, but I never seem to run out anyway with our power regen song and a good drink. I seem to keep this attribute up because I feel like I should as a scout :smileytongue:</p><p>Its probably worth you looking in this thread for a previous discussion.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=36&message.id=6075#M6075"><font color="#ffff00">Link</font></a></p><p> </p>

[pera]

I think for the level of importance something likeInt -> more spell damagestr -> more auto attack, ca damageagi/wis/sta -.> These three pretty much are on the same level, agi is goign to naturely be higher because almost all of our gear has agi even though it does nothing for the group/raid bard other than power, unlike any other class's primary stat.Fighters:str more power, higher melee damagepriest: wis higher power, better resistmage: int more power, higher spell damage.Scouts: agi, more power, higher avoidance. -> means nothing unless tanking/solo, even then it take about 60 agi to = 1% avoidancenow wis will help you out right resist spells a lot more offten the higher it is, great for ae spell mobs. and sta will mean you have more hp so you can take a bigger beating if you take agro or from an ae.  (this counts for both group and raid because a lot of group mobs are having some pretty strong ae damage in KoS.So really imo agi is one of the lostest priority but its normaly keep fairly high because the stats on our gear normaly have it.  And i'm not going to go into how crapy the stats are on our class hat, wow.   There is a helm that is a common drop out of the Nest of the Great Egg with better stats on it, far better stats imo.  The Blood of the Brood quest is a pain in the [expletive haxx0red by Raijinn] to get the updates so you would at least thing the reward would be better than some hat you can get at level 62 as a common drop in an 18 hour lock out instance.<div></div>

[Jehannum]

<div>Ha, the one time I saw the (#*&% crown the conjuror lottoed and won it... Common, my queen's-carapace-wearing butt.  (speaking of which, who decided two-tone pink and purple was appropriate for a bug carapace from a race which is primarily green?!)</div><div> </div><div>Well, that's the RNG for you I guess heh.</div>

[Sanju]

Like everyone else has said ... the primary stats for Bards, like <b>all other scouts</b> is STR and INT. I don't understand why the developers insist on putting extremely high AGI on scout, or bard only gear.<i></i><i>I wouldn't be surprised to see a piece of Troubador-only armor with AGI, STA and WIS on it, that's how much the developers simply do not know, or care about this class.</i><div></div>

[pera]

I'm starting to like wis a lot more than i used to when i respect to change out my master two choise because looting and aria's to change it to arcane.  I changed sevreal of my inate stat buffs to wis because nromaly its the loweststat over all.  I notice a major differnce on how much i striaght out resist spell/aes.  Also the wis increaes your overall resist too so that helps.Now i wouldn't take wis over str/int at all on gear unless they where capped, just because jouesting is really not that hard.<div></div>