Bard

Bard
Job Base(s):				Archer
Job Type:				2-2
Job Level:				50
Changes At:				Comodo
Number of Skills:				18
Total Skill Points:				91
Total Quest Skills:				1
Job Bonuses
STR	AGI	VIT	INT	DEX	LUK
+2	+7	+3	+5	+9	+4

Overview

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.

As a Bard, only Instruments, Daggers, and Bows are available for weapons, whereas Dancers can use Whips instead of Instruments.

• When armed with an Instrument:

• Bow skills (Double Strafe, Arrow Shower, Arrow Repel) cannot be used
• Performance Skills, as well as Amp and Encore are available
• Instrument skills (Melody Strike) can be used

Unbarring Octave and Pang Voice are usable regardless of weapons.

Jobchange Guide

See Bard Job Change Guide for detailed information.

In order to become a Bard, one must go to Comodo and look for the Roaming Bard. The applicant has to perform various tasks:

• Item Collection
• Making friends with Mr. Snowman in Lutie
• Singing Test

Once these have been completed, the applicant will be made a bard by the Wandering Bard.

Class Data

Payon Stories Balance Changes

See Class Rebalance (Bard) for detailed information.

• Musical Lesson: Skill now increases ATK of instruments from +3 per skill level to +5 per skill level. Now also reduces weapon delay of instruments by 1% per skill level.
• Musical Strike: Now does [175 + (25 × SkillLV)]% ATK with an instrument weapon instead of [125 + (25 × SkillLV)]% ATK with an instrument weapon. In addition, the skill gets an extra +100% ATK if used while performing.

Skills

See Archer Skills for first class skills.

Solo Skills

Skill	Description	Levels	Type	Balance Changes
Adaptation to Circumstances	Cancels active Performance Skill the caster is performing.	1	Active	No
A Poem of Bragi	Reduces Cast Time and Cast Delay of skills used inside the 7x7 area of effect.	10	Active	No
Assassin Cross of Sunset	Increases ASPD of all players in the 7x7 area of effect.	10	Active	No
A Whistle	Raises Flee Rate and Perfect Dodge of all players in the 7x7 area of effect.	10	Active	No
Dissonance	Hits enemies in a 9x9 area with a slow sonic attack, piercing their defense.	5	Active	No
Encore	Recast the last Performance Skill that was cast at half of the SP cost.	1	Active	No
Frost Joker	Freeze monsters and party members within caster's view by chance.	5	Offensive	No
Musical Lessons	Increases damage with Instruments, Movement Speed while singing and the effect of certain Performance Skills. The skill also increases weapon delay of instruments.	10	Passive	Yes
Musical Strike	Use an instrument-class weapon to do ranged damage to a single target.	5	Offensive	Yes
The Apple of Idun	Increases the the Max HP of all players in the area of effect.	10	Active	No

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 the said Ensemble skill is performed. (i.e. when a Bard that has learned Mr. Kim A Rich Man Lv.5 performs the skill with a Dancer that has only learned Mr. Kim A Rich Man Lv.3, the Bard and Dancer will perform Mr. Kim A Rich Man Lv.3)

Skill	Description	Levels	Type	Balance Changes
A Drum on the Battlefield	Party members within this skill's 9x9 area will have increased ATK and DEF for the skill's duration.	5	Active	No
Eternal Chaos	Reduces all DEF derived from the VIT stat to 0 for all enemies within the 9x9 area of effect.	1	Active	No
Into the Abyss	Cast a 9x9 cell area around the casters that nullifies item costs for most skills.	1	Active	No
Invulnerable Siegfried	Increases resistance against all Elements and Status Effects of party members within the 9x9 area of influence.	5	Active	No
Loki's Veil	Casts a 9x9 area around the caster where all skills are disabled.	1	Active	No
Lullaby	Sing a dreamy song to put enemies in a 9x9 area to sleep.	1	Active	No
Mr. Kim A Rich Man	Increases the EXP earned from monsters killed in the affected 9x9 area.	5	Active	No
The Ring of Nibelungen	Provides a bonus of armor piercing damage (ignores DEF) to all players within the 9x9 area of effect, as long as they're wielding level 4 weapons.	5	Supportive	No

Quest Skills

Skill	Description	Levels	Type	Job Level Requirement	Quest	Balance Changes
Pang Voice	The Bard screams out at a single target, attempting to inflict Chaos status effect.	1	Active	40	Pang Voice Quest	No

Job Bonuses

Stat	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5	+6	+7	+8
STR	3	28
AGI	2	10	11	24	30	35	48
VIT	17	33	43
INT	5	13	21	40	47
DEX	7	15	16	19	32	38	46	50
LUK	6	9	20	41

Base ASPD

Equip Attack Speed From Archer Bare Handed 160 0 Dagger 145 (-15) +5 Bow 135 (-25) +5 Instrument 142.5 (-17.5) N/A

ASPD Potions Usable Concentration Potion ✔ Awakening Potion ✘ Berserk Potion ✘