How I classed Bard from Base in 2 days

[Baoler]

Edit: Tip: Train all your 40% and 65% skills while you're still base class. Don't class bard till these are capped.
This is how I achieved Bard class from Base. It may not be the best method but it worked for me in 2 days irl time.
Hopefully someone someday can find this useful.
#1 Do NOT afk macro (If you have to step away from the pc, log out. bio, food, door, kids, pets, house is on fire.. just log out and when you're back, log back in and start up again.)

Magic User Base Class

Starter Skills:
50 Resist (other option is 50 Med, this will remove altar step)
30 Magery
30 Music

Starter Stats:
30 str, 5 dex, 5 int

Vendor Train:
Mace,Tactics, Peace, Provo, Meditation

Training Steps:
1. Bank everything except pants.

2. Pick cotton, flax & food till 60+ STR & 45 Dex
*This can be done at the New Player Training Grounds. (Brit west inn basement)

3. Go to Altar in Brit, take pants off. Meditation train till 40.0

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;Posted by Chivay on the Pangaea Forums
;http://www.pangaea-world.dk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=5317&p=124330&hilit=altar#p124330
;Script for training meditation at the altar in Britain. Just go near the altar and start the script.
click:
finditem ZEL G_1
set #lobjectid #findid
Event Macro 17 0
wait 5
while #CONTNAME <> generic_gump
wait 10
click 61 83
goto scan

scan:
if you_sacrifice in #sysmsg
{
wait 5
goto click
}
else
{
wait 1
goto scan
}

*Get gold from bank, buy a Tambourine & Harp.
4. Train Music with Tambourine: Shielding 30-45, True Seeing 45-55, 55-60 Boosting.
4. Train Music with Harp: 60-65 Recovery
*Note: You can start training say 60-65 at 59.5 for example, this applies to all songs listed.

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;Written by Baoler
;Play the song you want to train with before starting.
loop:
msg .lastsong$
set %tim3 #SCNT + 20 ;Incase it get's stuck.
set %jrnl #jindex
set %jrnl %jrnl + 1
wait 1s
scanloop:
 wait 1
 if #jindex >= %jrnl
 {
  scanjournal %jrnl
  if You_stop_playing in #journal
   goto loop
  set %jrnl %jrnl + 1
 }
 if %tim3 < #SCNT
 {
  goto loop
 }
goto scanloop
wait 1
goto loop

5. Gather up a large pack of weak hostile monsters and run laps around them while running this macro. The more monsters the faster the gains.
Keep in mind the rules when macroing with hostile monsters:

Any training situation where the monster is stuck, or prevented to get to you, will be considered as abusing.

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loop:
Event Macro 13 9 ;Peacemaking
wait 8s
goto loop

*If your STR is not 70 yet proceed to Mace training.

6. Buy a pickaxe and head 1 building north of the East Brit Inn. Train Mace on a training dummy.

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Finditem WDG G_1
if #findcnt <= 0
{
 Display ok Can't find Training Dummy, halting.
 Halt
}
set %dummy #findid
loop:
set #lobjectid %dummy
event macro 17
wait 40
goto loop

Skills so far: 40 med, 65 music, 65 peace(, ~40+ Mace)
Stats so far: 70+ str, 45+ dex, 60+ int

Congrats you can class bard!
Turn the Cotten and Flax into Bolts of cloth & sell them to a Tailor or have the Tailor cut them into bandages for you to sell to players.

[Theodore]

My advice would also be, make sure to 65 med before joining class, as in class its three times slower

[Baoler]

My advice would also be, make sure to 65 med before joining class, as in class its three times slower

Edit: Turns out this is true to a degree. People will want to train all 40% and 65% skills during Base Class.

editedit: I resigned my class, losing my 85 music down to 65 music. But the gain rates for the Bard's 40% and 65% were totally worth it.
This is for sure the way to go. After I cap my 40% and 65% bard skills I'll re-join the bard class.

[Maximilian Lhoth]

My advice would also be, make sure to 65 med before joining class, as in class its three times slower

Or class the bard and combine training;
3 x music (.lastsong, walk up, walk up, walk down, walk down)
1 x meditation (put on int jewel using set #lobjectid & lastobject, .undress, meditate, wait until #mana = #maxmana)
repeat

[Baoler]

Just an update.
Meditation. Use Int jewellery, don't waste your gold trying to finish it with magery.
Music, third from the bottom all the way up. Took me about 10 days to go from 80 to 100 music. 90-100 was agonizing.

Here is the easyuo script I wrote for music training. You have to setup an in game macro for F4 to send say .lastsong Don't try to use easyuo to msg .lastsong or you'll fail macro checks.
plays song then walks your character 1 step north followed by 1 step south.

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set %y0 #CHARPOSY
set %y1 #CHARPOSY - 1
loop:
Key F4
set %timer #scnt + 7
move #CHARPOSX %y1 0
move #CHARPOSX %y0 0
while %timer > #scnt
{
 wait 10
}
goto loop

I wrote this in 5 seconds,. it doesn't account for world saves. could be improved if it scanned the journal instead of just waiting 7s.