It's like super confusing.  I occassionally glance down and see what the next stack will give me.  I have no idea what optimal play is.  Actually, I'm finding myself really under leveled roaming getting the laterns... BUT being pretty surprizingly powerful w/ my passive... the sad part is that it surprised me as well.. It's really a cluster though as in game I don't think anything explains what he's going to get (eg I see what I get for the next level, but don't know that I get a huge boost when I complete 3rd stack, etc).  

the wiki doesn't have a list yet...

• X  chimes collected - with  X more, X happens

• 5 Chimes : Meeps apply a 25% slow for 1 second
• 10 Chimes: Meep attacks deal 25 more damage. 
• 15 Chimes: Bard will be able to have 1 more meep following at once
• 20 Chimes: Meep attacks deal 25 more damage. 
• 25 Chimes: Meep attacks will strike through their target
• 30 Chimes: Meep attacks deal 30 more damage. 
• 35 Chimes: Meeps will reappear 1 second faster
• 40 Chimes: Meep attacks deal 30 more damage
• 45 Chimes: Meep attacks will slow by 45%
• 50 Chimes :Meep attacks deal 35 more damage
• 55 Chimes: Bard will be able to have 1 more meep following at once
• 60 Chimes :Meep attacks deal 35 more damage,
• 65 Chimes: Meep attack strike-through cone increases in size. 
• 70 Chimes: Meep attacks deal 35 more damage. 
• 75 Chimes: Meeps will reappear 1 second faster 
• 80 Chimes: Meep attacks deal 35 more damage. 
• 85 Chimes: Meep attacks will slow by 60%
• 90 Chimes: Meep attacks deal 30 (or 35?) more damage
• 95 Chimes: Bard will be able to have 1 more meep following at once 
• 100 Chimes: Meep attacks deal 30 more damage
• 105 Chimes: Meeps will reappear 1 second faster. 
• 110 Chimes: Meep attacks deal 30 more damage
• 115 Chimes: Meep attacks will slow by 70%
• 120 Chimes: Meep attacks deal 25 more damage
• 125 Chimes: Meeps will reappear 1 second faster
• 130 Chimes: Meep attacks deal 25 more damage
• 135 Chimes: Meep attacks will slow by 75%
• 140 Chimes: Meep attacks deal 20 more damage
• 145 Chimes: Meep attacks will slow by 80%
• 150 Chimes: Meep attacks deal 20 more damage.
• ( Every 5 chimes after 150 adds 20 damage )

toying around w/ zac jungle.  Full tank.  His ap ratios are trash. I don't see much point at all in 15 AP for quints.  Any thoughts on quints?  Curently red mpen, yellow flat arm, blue flat mr.  Don't think AS is worth it - his jung clear is decent w/o.  

Magic Pen Quints or Movement Speed. Health is alright too, but nothing scales HP wise right? There have been some discussion about making a skill on Zac scales of HP etc. so maybe not until then.

I'm wondering about cdr quints - thoughts?

I am really digging bard. It took a while to get used to his play style but he is very good at catching people out on the other team. His ult is like a long ranged morgana bind or syndra stun. If you hit a squishy that is solo and have some decent back up you will definitely kill him before help can arrive.

Bard's passive empowered autos SLOW targets by a substantial amount once later in the game so landing autos on to a cocky ADC can lead to him getting snared with your Q and blown up by your team.

Bard's Q can also be effective at locking targets down for either peel or snaring squishy purposes. It has a shorter range but is very good at what it does.

Bard's tunnel I am still not that impressed with. I think its biggest uses are getting around the map to ward and collect lanterns. You can also use it to disengage a fight some what effectively but your chasers can follow you through. I have used it to reposition in team fights infront of a fleeing enemy team before or to escape a team fight when low. Its a very situational spell and definitely a 1 point wonder.

Bard's healing relic things are nice for lane phase and also give a nice boost to movement speed. I have saved many a people placing the totem directly on top of a team mate to boost him out of a sticky situation or help dodge a skill shot. They are also helpful for getting your own stupid self out of getting caught. That extra speed is really really nice in those situations.

Bard's damage output is also pretty high for a support. His harass in lane is on par with Sona.

Had a very nice experience laning with a Bard last night.  I was playing Tristana and we had some simpatico stuff going when 2v2ing the other team's Bard and Draven, who both seemed... fairly competent.  But yah never know with Teambuilder right?

Anyway, I used to think that a safe farm under tower or from long distance Marksman was the best to go with Bard but Tristana's fast clear perma=push seems to work just fine cause it gives Bard some time to wander around.  Also she's got a self peel and escape.

2 things - 1 guide for the new champion mastery (NOT masteries) for pbe is here:  https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/204211284-Champion-Mastery-Guide

2 - There's a new program you folks might find useful.  Its an item set generator that uses data per patch from champion.gg.  This site tracks most common skill over, highest winrate skill order, items, etc.  It's a zip file containing small text files that you extract and then you can see them in game.  http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/2z7hkw/championgg_item_sets_updated_for_patch_55/

So, I'm really digging zac.  Currently running 3 cdr quints.  4/0.  2 norm draft + 2 team builders. 6.67, 17.0, perfect, 15.5 kda.  All as 100% tank build.  

1 replay - http://na.op.gg/match/observer/id=1762757134

Last fight of that game really shows some of this champs strengths.  Anyway, the weaker side is that he is susceptible to counter jungling to a degree.  Late game the tankiness, disruption, and cc he brings is pretty strong so far.  I'm digging him and he currently seems to be a little bit of a sleeper jungle pick.  A full second knockup is actually a pretty big deal - especially when it gets on a longer cooldown.  

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those digging the item set generator, here's a script/instructions to pull your own with the most up-to-date data

https://github.com/Gavin770/champGG

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I picked up South Park The Stick of Truth the other day on sale on steam it was like 13 bucks. I am pretty impressed so far. Really nice game play, funny dialogue, side quests, graphics are nice for a game you wouldn't expect for it to really matter. Id recommend getting it. I probably wont finish it since I get so distracted by league of legends and my attention span for almost all other games is very low.

So cinderhulk/sunfire doesn't award your jungler gold therefore its bad? Pacov sent me a PM while I was in game about it since I tried running cinderhulk over a normal machete item. I was behind 2k gold with similar kills/assists/creep score to my jungler counter part (they did have 3-4 more towers than us though). I really don't see a point in getting this item over a machete item. Maybe as your second slot then?

Also had a really good showing on Bard support in Ranked again. I think hes pretty strong in his own weird way.