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I have made a warlock/bard and I have some questions
-Must I max DoTs like blaze if later i'll get better ones?
-Which bard skills should I take (I want only the minium ones, like no attacks and others)?

Those dots are good for solo grinding. You'll get zerk faster and at 60+ you'll do AoE Dots.

For bard get. Mana cycle, Tambour, Dance of Magic, Hit march, Speed, and Noise

Or if u wanna save sp just get noise moving march and mana cycle. If u still want the buff+support skills u can farm for them wen u feel like it later on

thanks for the answers but i still don't understand why should I max the first of each pair of DoT? for example if I'll get dark blaze why should i max blaze?

The DOTs a crucial to your PvE. If you grind right you will kill mobs fast as hell and build zerk fast as hell. I was grinding last night and I got zerk on average less than a minute after it ran out. You need to know that the perfect mobs to grind on for this are at your lvl or a couple below. I am lvl 30 and I grind on 27-28 mobs.

Blaze and Toxin are great for solo grinding but I personally deleveled them. They are only really good for solo PvE since you'll be spamming Decayed, Curse Breath, and the four AOE versions in all other cases. Since you are going lock/bard, you can take advantage of your speed and noise buff to DoT a lot of monsters at once, not stopping to DoT + nuke, which was the old school grinding style. I grinded like that as a lock/cleric because I had ultra crappy gear in the low levels and it was impossible to kite around with DoT without getting destroyed by the 5+ mobs chasing me.

Basically, if you have the SP then Blaze and Toxin are great for soloing. In exp parties you should be using the AOE ones more often. It is perfectly viable to skip them, save some SP, and rely on Decayed/Curse Breath instead, since Blaze/Toxin definitely have less usage than the other skills.