Bard

Bard

Bards are the singers of the realm of Hibernia. They use instruments to perform most of their repertoire. Their songs provide nurture and protection during and after battle. In addition, Bards are capable of increasing run speeds for their groups, which proves useful when attempting to outrun the enemy on the battlefield, or for traveling from place to place.

In addition to songs, Bards can also heal and cast spells to enhance themselves and groupmates. They have the ability to stop people dead in their tracks with crowd control spells. Bards can specialize to gain additional healing abilities, area of effect crowd control abilities and offensive abilities (weapons and shout).

Attributes & Races

Available Races	Charisma Primary	Empathy Secondary	Constitution Tertiary	Str	Dex	Qui	Int	Pie	Resistance 1	Resistance 2	Resistance 3	Resistance 4
Celt	60 + 45	60 + 23	60 + 15	60	60	60	60	60	2% Crush	3% Slash	5% Spirit
Firbolg	60 + 45	70 + 23	60 + 15	90	40	40	60	60	3% Crush	2% Slash	5% Heat

Abilities & Specialization

Abilities	Specializations 1.5x	Equipment	Advanced	Tradeskills
Sprint Evade I (10) Evade II (25) Tireless (15)	Combat Blades Blunt Magic Regrowth Nurture Music	Armor Cloth Leather Reinforced Weapon Staves Blades Blunt Shield (Small)	Master Levels Perfecter Sojourner Sub Classes Forester Guardian Magician Stalker	Alchemy Armorcraft Basic Crafting Fletching Spellcrafting Tailoring Weaponcraft Siegecraft

Tactics

PVE

In PVE, a Bard's role is to provide regeneration and heal proc buffs to the group, with some healing, and crowd control in the case of overpulls.

RVR

In RVR, a Bard's role is to provide crowd control for the group - healing when the group is in a pinch. Keeping enemy players mezzed or rooted, and interrupting the casters and support throughout the fight. When running into an enemy group, if the Bard has the jump then insta amnesia as you cast AE mez is a great way to keep the enemy in range for the mez to land. Casted mez is always the priority, but an instant can still swing a lot of fights in your realm's favour. Identify the support and casters, and try to keep them from casting by using CC spells and using instant DDs and amensia for interrupts. Bards should also take the disease and dot spells from the Magician Champion Level line to help with interrupting.

37 Music, 44 Nurture, 32 Regrowth

44 Music, 40 Nurture, 27 Regrowth

47 Music, 35 Nurture, 27 Regrowth

Realm Abilities

Primary Realm Abilities	Secondary Realm Abilities	Useless Realm Abilities
Augmented Dexterity	Augmented Constitution Avoidance of Magic Mastery of Focus Mastery of Healing Toughness Wild Healing	Augmented Acuity Augmented Quickness Augmented Strength Ethereal Bond Lifter Long Wind Mastery of Magery Mastery of Pain Serenity Veil Recovery Wild Power
Ameliorating Melodies Purge Speed of Sound	Ignore Pain Mastery of Concentration Raging Power The Empty Mind	First Aid Mystic Crystal Lore Second Wind

Realm Rank 5 Ability:

Name	Dreamweaver
Reuse	10 minutes
Effect	Allows the Bard to create an illusion that makes him or her self look like a difference race and class for a 5 minute duration (effected by bonus to spell duration). The Bard's instrument also takes the illusion of another weapon and no spell effects are shown when the Bard casts a spell. This ability also adds a reactive proc (20%) which applies a 40% snare for 15 seconds on the attacker. Additional Note: After using this ability and becoming a Blademaster in appearance, you can switch to your weapon and back to your instrument for an additional effect. You will appear to have two weapons on your back in the form of an X. This effect is aesthetic only.

Useful Artifacts

Weapon
Armor
Jewelry

Other Useful Items

Weapons: Abagath Fife, Silent Night
Jewelry
Mythirian