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my friend whos a bard, whenever he casts a buff (mana tambour, guard tambour, hit march, etc...) it always cancels right after it casts.

anyone know why?

If I had to hazard a guess, someone has cast a buff that has similar properties to those buffs. I've had no problems thus far with my bard character, but the cleric in our group has had problems when he tries to cast the status reduction buff. That usually happens when our rogue casts his poison reduction buff for the group.

Don't know if that helps at all , or if that's even it, but hopefully.

Not gonna log in, post a description of the skills please. Screenshotted straight from the skill window is best.

prob because he switch weapon..?

If you are using the melody line of skills you can't switch weapons or you lose the effect...which isn't so bad if you have another bard in the party...have one use the Melody line and the other use one of the Dance skills...

or too much clicking those buttons.

+1. Whenever i casted the bard skills described on my bard they use to cancel alot because i would click them too much due to lag.

i've never had that prob, but loads of bards i encounter do. i have no idea why, but clicking on those buttons more than once doesn't seem feasible. the cooldown is too long for consecutive clicks.

maybe he was hit by a mob during casting?

It's just how the skill works. You have to wait after clicking the skill and it's fully casted. Same thing goes for Ice Wall if you click anything after the skill it cancels.

Hit the skill once wait and you're fine.

If he's the only bard in party. he can only cast guard tambour something.
That's a skill that will absorb phys dmg using his mana. So he has to make sure he doesn't run out of mana.
Trying to recast this buff will cancel it.
Trying to cast anything else out of dancing concert line skill will cancel it.
Trying to switching weapon will cancel it.
Getting attacked by mobs will cancel it.

If there's another bard in party, then he can cast the "dance" buffs providing that the first bard already casted gard tumbar something.

As for mana cycle its like a 16 second buff so if you recast it on yourself the old one will be replaced by the new one, so doesn't make much difference. I usually recast mana cycle on myself when I'm arond 50% MP pool.