Bard

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## Description

The Bard is a support class, and supports the party by playing songs on their magical instruments, boosting morale of the party and can increase stats or hinder enemies as well. The Bard can also use their magical instruments to attack enemies, possessing average Magic Attack to do so.

## Skills

Tuned Instrument: The Bard's magical songs are increased in effect temporarily; +1 to stat boosts, effects last for an additional two turns. TP Cost: 20

Forte: The Bard's songs grow louder, effecting another ten feet wider area for two hours. TP Cost: 20

Entertainment: The Bard has a better chance of drawing in crowds and getting people excited and entertained. Passive, Success Roll+5 when playing songs for a crowd

Octave Onslaught: The Bard rapid-fire blasts magic musical notes from their instrument at targets.\* TP Cost: 60

Sheet Music: The Bard can copy one of their songs to sheet music, allowing them to play that song while inflicted with Silence. At Level 10, the Bard can copy down two songs. At Level 18, they can copy up to 3 songs.\* Passive

Maestro: The Bard can reverse buffs or debuffs from enemy magic songs.\* TP Cost: 25

Remix: The Bard remixes one of their own songs, and the effect of the song is the scrambling of an enemy's stats. TP Cost: 30

## Overview

Bards can be good to have around in any campaign or battle, as they are able to influence NPCs in a variety of ways and support allies in combat.

The Tuned Instrument skill essentially makes the songs the Bard plays work more efficiently, taking the song the player wrote and making it work better.

Forte allows more allies to hear the song that the Bard plays by playing the song louder, letting the song effect more allies at once.

Octave Onslaught is a ranged offensive skill that deals a good amount of damage to enemies hit by it.

Maestro is really only useful if there are other Bards or Muses on the enemy side, as there would otherwise be no enemy magic songs to reverse. However, if there are such enemies, the Maestro skill is useful for ensuring that they are unable to effectively support their allies by removing buffs they place.

Remix can be useful against enemies that have spread-out stats, for example, Guardians have incredibly high Defense, but low Attack. The Remix skill can swap the two of them so that the Guardian will be easier to deal damage to since their Defense stat is now low, but they will also deal more damage to players now that their Attack is high. Remix is not very useful against enemies with well-balanced stats.

## Inventory

* Magic Instrument (AR: 6)

* Feather Hat

* Bottle of Water

* 100 gold

* Immortal Rose

## Starting Spells

Jaunty Tune: Play a rousing tune that makes those who hear it within 50 feet feel happy. MP: 10

Chord Strike: Play a collection of notes; creatures within ten feet are thrown back by an invisible force. MP: 10

Charming Serenade: Play a romantic song that makes a single target within 10 feet feel charmed by the user. MP: 30

Requiem of Tears: Play a song that makes its audience feel saddened and sorrowful; effects anyone within 50 feet of the user. MP: 10