Bard

Role

The Bard is the male Archer's second job: a musician who supports the party with songs. A song plays around the Bard (a 7 × 7 area follows him) and works on every player nearby except the Bard himself, and for 20 more seconds after leaving the area. While the song plays, the Bard spends SP, walks slower and does not attack. With an instrument he shoots arrows (Melody Strike), and together with a Dancer he plays ensembles. Archer skills stay.

Job change

• Where: Lalo, the wandering bard in the east of Comodo, a town by the sea; the Morroc Kafra goes there.
• What you need: a male Archer with Job Lv 40 or higher. Spend every skill point on Archer skills: unspent points do not carry over to the second job.
• A song with Lalo: listen to him and agree to sing together.
• A flower: Lalo wants a flower, but «not just any» — not every one will do.
• Lutie: make friends with the Snowman in Lutie — finish his quest.
• Song test: Lalo sings, and you type the line. Case, «ё» and punctuation do not matter. A mistake means a retake.
• Gift: for 60 logs of one kind Lalo gives an instrument — Violin, Mandolin, Lute or Harp. Without logs you still get the job, just no gift.

The quest log leads through every step and shows whom to visit.

Stats

DEX — arrow accuracy and faster casting, AGI — attack speed. INT keeps songs going longer: SP drains the whole time a song plays.

Songs

• Perfect Tablature — flee and perfect dodge.
• Impressive Riff — attack speed.
• Magic Strings — shorter casts and after-cast delay: the mages' favourite.
• Song of Lutie — more max HP and faster HP recovery.
• Unchained Serenade — damage to every enemy around.
• Unbarring Octave — the Bard's joke: 3 seconds later everyone around may freeze.
• Amp stops the song, Encore repeats the last one for half the SP.
• Music Lessons — instrument damage, song speed and SP.

Ensembles

A Bard and a Dancer in the same party stand next to each other, and one of them starts an ensemble. Its level is the average of the two, the starter pays the SP. The 9 × 9 area lasts 60 seconds and does not move; both performers stay put and spend SP. Leave the area and the effect ends at once.

• Lullaby — sleep to enemies around.
• Mental Sensing — more experience from monsters.
• Down Tempo — enemies lose their VIT defense.
• Battle Theme — ATK and DEF to the party.
• Harmonic Lick — ATK to party members with level 4 weapons.
• Classical Pluck — nobody inside uses skills, monsters included.
• Power Chord — party skills without gemstones.
• Acoustic Rhythm — resistance to elements and ailments.

Quest skill

Pang Voice — a shout that confuses the target: it walks the wrong way. Riott in the Morroc tavern teaches it. The quest starts with a shy young man in Prontera, and without the «Wandering Minstrel» quest (Minti Errende in Geffen) Riott will not teach it.