Bard

Bard

Bard

Job Type:

2-2

Changes From:

archer

Changes At:

comodo

Number of Skills:

Total Skill Points:

Total Quest Skills:

Job Bonuses

STR

AGI

VIT

INT

DEX

LUK

Overview

The wind's musical poet.

The one that likes sings when on break, and likes poems has found the job. His singing voice improved and at one point started to have magic in it. When he sings, the fields grow calm and animals gather around and and listen to him sing. His magical singing spread throughout Rune-Midgarts where King Tristan III hears as well. The King invites the Bard to perform. Impressed by his amazing talents, he asks the Bard to join the adventurers, and so he joins the journey.

Description

After a life of plucking their bows, many Archers feel the itch to strum strings of a different kind. The Bards of Ragnarok Online are the right choice for the idealists among Archers who wish to change the world with their poetry.

The voice of a Bard is laden with magical harmonies, singing hymns that invoke the ancient Gods of Asgard to instill fear in the hearts of his enemies and inspire his comrades to victory with songs of eternal youth and glorious charges. Where their female counterparts, the Dancers, are more bent on disruption, Bards specialize in support, which make them central in all defensive strategies during the war_of_emperium.

Supporting with a Bard or dancer requires a different approach than other classes. Music-based buffs are mostly percentual values, as opposed to the absolute values of priest buffs, and require careful strategy and positioning, but playing as an archer should already provide some experience in this respect. Despite their supportive role, one should not forget that Bards are also capable of dealing good quantities of damage, one of their main advantages over Hunters is their immense SP pool which allows them to continually use double_strafe instead of normal attacks, ensuring a very nice damage output.

In general, there are 2 types of skills for both Dancers and a Bards; skills which can be sung or danced without a partner of the opposite gender and those where the player needs another Bard or dancer respectively.

Changes

The following skills for this class have been altered. See the corresponding page to find which servers are affected:

Job Change Guide

Requirements

Job Level:

Class:

archer

Item(s) (Consumed):

1 Type of Flower, 1 Sticky Mucus, 1 Squid Ink, Trunks (Optional)

Quest Corequisite(s):

snowysnow_quest

Rewards

Items:

Instrument (Varies/Optional)

Experience:	Base EXP:	Job EXP:

None

Quest Reward(s):

Jobchange to Bard

1. Find the Roaming Bard, Lalo, who is at (226,123) on the comodo town map. This is a short distance from the bottom right of the Kafra. After a short conversation with the bard he will request that the player brings him a flower. The flower must be one of the following:

Hinalle
Ment
Aloe
Illusion Flower
Witherless Rose
Singing Flower
Izidor
Frozen Rose

2. Once you have given the bard a flower, he will tell you to go to lutie to become friends with the Snowman in Lutie:

//See: [[wiki:snowysnow_quest]]//

3. Once you become friends with Mr. Snowman, return to the bard to finish the quest. He will require the player to type exactly what he sings.

4. After successfully copying the bard's lyrics, he will change your job to Bard. Upon job change, the bard offers to give you a weapon if you have 60 trunks. Each type of trunk gives the player a different weapon.

Trunk : Violin [3]
Solid Trunk or Barren Trunk : Mandolin [2]
Fine Trunk : Lute [2]
Fine Trunk + Job Level 50 : Harp [2]

Skills

See archer_skills for first class skills.

Solo Skills

Skill	Description	Levels	Type

adaption_to_circumstances

Cancels active Performance Skill the caster is performing.

Active

encore

Recast the last Performance Skill that was cast at half of the sp cost.

Active

assassin_cross_of_sunset

Increases aspd of all players in the 7×7 area of effect.

Active

a_poem_of_bragi

Reduces Cast Time and Cast Delay of skills used inside the 7×7 area of effect.

Active

musical_strike

Use an instrument-class weapon to do ranged damage to a single target.

Offensive

musical_lesson

Increases damage with Instruments, Movement Speed while singing and the effect of certain Performance Skills.

Passive

a_whistle

Raises flee Rate and perfect_dodge of all players in the 7×7 area of effect.

Active

the_apple_of_idun

Increases the the max_hp of all players in the area of effect.

Active

frost_joker

freeze monsters and party members within caster's view by chance.

Active

dissonance

Hits enemies in a 9×9 area with a slow sonic attack, piercing their defense.

Offensive

Ensemble Skills

Ensemble skills can only be performed when a Bard and Dancer are in the same party and standing beside each other. When an Ensemble skill is performed by a Bard and Dancer, the lower level of Acoustic Rhythm is performed. (i.e. when a Bard that has learned Acoustic Rhythm Lv.5 performs the skill with a Dancer that has only learned Acoustic Rhythm Lv.3, the Bard and Dancer will perform Acoutic Rhythm Lv.3)

Skill	Description	Levels	Type

invulnerable_siegfried

Increases resistance against all Elements and Status Effects of party members within the 9×9 area of influence.

Active

a_drum_on_the_battlefield

Party members within this skill's 9×9 area will have increased atk and def for the skill's duration.

Active

Loki's Veil

Casts a 9×9 area around the caster where all skills are disabled.

Active

eternal_chaos

Reduces all def derived from the vit stat to 0 for all enemies within the 9×9 area of effect.

Active

the_ring_of_nibelungen

Provides a bonus of armor piercing damage (ignores DEF) to all players within the 9×9 area of effect, as long as they're wielding level 4 weapons.

Supportive

lullaby

Sing a dreamy song to put enemies in a 9×9 area to sleep.

Active

Mr. Kim A Rich Man

Increases the EXP earned from monsters killed in the affected 9×9 area.

Active

into_the_abyss

Cast a 9×9 cell area around the casters that nullifies item costs for most skills.

Active

Quest Skills

Skill	Description	Levels	Type	Job Level Requirement	Quest

pang_voice

The Bard screams out at a single target, attempting to inflict chaos status effect.

Active

Pang Voice Quest

Soul Link

See bard_and_dancer_spirits.

Skill	Description	Levels	Type

Please Don't Forget Me

(If level 10 assassin_cross_of_sunset is learned) Decrease attack and movement speed of all enemies within the 7×7 area of effect.

Active

Fortune's Kiss

(If level 10 a_poem_of_bragi is learned) Improves crit rate of all players within the 7×7 area of effect.

Active

humming

(If level 10 a_whistle is learned) Improves hit of all players within the 7×7 area of effect.

Active

service_for_you

(If level 10 the_apple_of_idun is learned) Increase max_sp and SP regeneration while reducing the SP consumption of all players within the 7×7 area of effect.

Active