I was wondering if any veteran bards use the %melee haste in their melee songs? I've read a lot of contradictory information so I am not sure what I should be using in my melee songs. It seems to me that with the GCD impact on autoattack, the usefullness of melee haste is limited. Anyone have any links to song compositions? Thanks!
0% melee haste. as it stands now melee haste is absolutely worthless in end game raid situations. you can tell which melee dps toons are slacking on their job by the number of auto attacks that they get in during a burn fight. heck i have numerous parses where the combined number of auto attacks done by three bards, a monk and a warrior is less than ten in a full guar fight. now if they change it so auto attacks persist like is being talked about this would change and then you run into stacking issues between bard haste and rakurr shaman haste, so probably might kick my melee haste up to 30% then. also if you are leveling up you can get a bit of help from the haste, especially if group does not have endurance regen buffs. just make sure that you have mel's anthem of war (the 15% dmg component) and as many of the mels components that add +dmg to attack, and if you have the coda use either the +dmg one if you have psi buffs or the +refresh one if you don't. one important note, if you don't know it the mel's component that adds 5% (can stack up to 3 in a song) does not stack with anthem of war (the 15% comp that adds stats) so don't put them in the song together.
Thanks Nejibana. I somewhat figured that was the case. I am only level 28 so I don't have all the song pieces/components yet. Most of the time during a fight I am spamming special abilities and only run out of endurance if I have multiple mobs. So, haste MIGHT help a bit, but I doubt it's better than using the +DMG component. I won't typically have Psi or Rakurr buffs, but I have Tuurgin buffs - just no endurance buff until L34. I am trying to "slow down" and space out my special attacks to allow more melee hits, but it's a bad habit to break. If I can do that, haste should provide more of a benefit. Although, it's probably not all that important until the mob fights are substantially longer. Levelling up they are obviously very short unless I have 4+ mobs to kill. As for the stacking issues, I only just learned that recently through searching more about song compositions.
