Bard

Bard
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Job Type:			2-2
Changes From:			Archer
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

Bard

Bard

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.

Skills

See Archer Skills for first class skills.

Solo Skills

Skill	Description	Levels	Type
File:Adaption to Circumstances.png Adaption to Circumstances	Cancels active Performance Skill the caster is performing.	1	Active
File:Encore.png Encore	Recast the last Performance Skill that was cast at half of the SP cost.	1	Active
File:Assassin Cross of Sunset.png Assassin Cross of Sunset	Increases ASPD of all players in the 7x7 area of effect.	10	Active
File:A Poem of Bragi.png A Poem of Bragi	Reduces Cast Time and Cast Delay of skills used inside the 7x7 area of effect.	10	Active
File:Musical Strike.png Musical Strike	Use an instrument-class weapon to do ranged damage to a single target.	5	Offensive
File:Musical Lesson.png Musical Lesson	Increases damage with Instruments, Movement Speed while singing and the effect of certain Performance Skills.	10	Passive
File:A Whistle.png A Whistle	Raises Flee Rate and Perfect Dodge of all players in the 7x7 area of effect.	10	Active
File:The Apple of Idun.png The Apple of Idun	Increases the the Max HP of all players in the area of effect.	10	Active
File:Frost Joker.png Frost Joker	Freeze monsters and party members within caster's view by chance.	5	Active
File:Dissonance.png Dissonance	Hits enemies in a 9x9 area with a slow sonic attack, piercing their defense.	5	Offensive	File:Pang Voice.png Pang Voice	The Bard screams out at a single target, attempting to inflict Chaos status effect.	1	Active

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
File:Invulnerable Siegfried.png Invulnerable Siegfried	Increases resistance against all Elements and Status Effects of party members within the 9x9 area of influence.	5	Active
File:A Drum on the Battlefield.png 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
File:Loki's Veil.png Loki's Veil	Casts a 9x9 area around the caster where all skills are disabled.	1	Active
File:Eternal Chaos.png Eternal Chaos	Reduces all DEF derived from the VIT stat to 0 for all enemies within the 9x9 area of effect.	1	Active
File:The Ring of Nibelungen.png 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
File:Lullaby.png Lullaby	Sing a dreamy song to put enemies in a 9x9 area to sleep.	1	Active
File:Mr. Kim A Rich Man.png Mr. Kim A Rich Man	Increases the EXP earned from monsters killed in the affected 9x9 area.	5	Active
File:Into the Abyss.png Into the Abyss	Cast a 9x9 cell area around the casters that nullifies item costs for most skills.	1	Active

Soul Link

See Bard and Dancer Spirits.

Skill	Description	Levels	Type
File:Please Don't Forget Me.png Please Don't Forget Me	(If level 10 Assassin Cross of Sunset is learned) Decrease attack and movement speed of all enemies within the 7x7 area of effect.	10	Active
File:Fortune's Kiss.png Fortune's Kiss	(If level 10 A Poem of Bragi is learned) Improves CRIT rate of all players within the 7x7 area of effect.	10	Active
File:Humming.png Humming	(If level 10 A Whistle is learned) Improves HIT of all players within the 7x7 area of effect.	10	Active
File:Service For You.png 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 7x7 area of effect.	10	Active