First off, does your warrior know to taunt the bandits off of you? If not this can
really save your skin so get him to. Also with the druid/ranger combo send the
rangers (sow'ed) to pull for the group, and have the warrior & other ranger stand
so the MOB's will have to go through tanks to get to the bards. This way the MOB
will get attacked by tanks & may forget about you. You might also see if druid can
lull a few before pull. Also make sure that non-melee'er "help" the tank take out
one of the MOB's when they aren't casting.
As for songs, I don't see if you were using inst & h2h or singing & weapons during
the battle. I would try experimenting w/ using weapons vs. insts. W/ two bards if
you are both using inst decide who will use drum & who lute. The lute should play
Hymn and Chords (start twist w/ Chord just before MOB reach party & they will "run
into" your song). The other bard w/ drum should do Anthem/Elemental (or Selo's if
a real long battle) till you get 12th, then the Anthem/Bellow twist. The bard
using the lute will be the most popular, so you may want to stop & switch
songs/inst to even out damage between bards. If not have druid save enough mana to
do 1 or 2 heals on bard.
Good luck.
>
> We tried the camp a total of three times, some of us dying every time.
> There were(I think) 5 bandits, all blue, except for one, which was yellow.
> The first time I had the misfortune to be playing Hymn twisted with Anthem
> from the beginning of the fight, and I ended up with three bandits on me due, I
> think to Hymn. Needless to say, I died. It was a fun run of shame back to
> my body...
>
> The second time we tried it, we were actually jumped -- a pair of
> bandits running by started the fray, and the five from the camp
> joined the fun. This time the other Bard was killed; he was playing
> Hymn. When I noticed his health dropping rapidly, I told him to back
> off, and he did, but the bandits didn't stop. Is there anything I could
> have done to pull them off of him?
>
> The third time, again there were 7 bandits. A ranger shot at a bandit
> in the camp and those 5 ran at us, and two more running by at the same
> time joined the fray. This time, I decided to use Discord, rather then Hymn
> to try to do extra damage. I liked seeing 7 messages "a bandit winces"! But
> once again, I managed to get the attention of a pair of bandits, and died. I'd
> asked the other Bard to play Elemental Rhythms, as there was a yellow bandit
> caster in the camp. He died also, I'm really not sure why.
>
> This time I grabbed my spare drum to make the run back a little faster.
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions of how I could have survived the first and
> last fight, and kept the rest of the party alive also?
>
> Keep in mind that I'm only level 11 -- so I'm really not interested in
> hearing about
> songs that are higher levels(at least until I get there :).
>
> All in all, I had fun, but it was a loosing night for me and experience.