Bard
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Wood Elf Bard using Ultimate Long Sword XII and Cratos, Blade Of The Orcish Plaguebringer from Sleeper's Tomb
What to expect from Bards on EZServer (2023):
Bards are a melee class that wear plate armor and can dual wield weapons that you can augment Ninjastrike Augs. Their melee damage is not great and they are currently surpassed by most melee classes if you only compare their melee damage output. Bards on EZServer have access to many different songs, but in all honesty, most of the songs are not going to give you much noticable help in the long run. That's not to say Bards are useless by any means.
Primary Uses
- The Bards strongest ability is the song called One Man Band, off the epic augment they receive when progressing through the tiers. It is a raid wide song that increases all your raid members spell damage, as well as adding some mana and endurance regen. The amount of spell damage added depends on which rank of the Epic Augment you currently posess. This song is very useful if you have casters in your raid, as the song stacks with all new major mods to spell damage and will certainly make your casters nuke harder. The spell damage will also have an effect on all your other characters weapon damage procs, so while Bards are not great solo DPS, they certainly grant a good overall DPS boost to your raid.
- The song Song: Tempest Blade line adds a proc to every member of the group and you can pick up several ranks of this song over the course of EZ's tiers. Don't expect too much increase in damage overall though and be careful using it as it tends to put the Bard high on the aggro list.
- Another useful song is the non custom song called Kazumi's Note of Preservation, which gives you and your group 18 seconds with invulnerability. This ability can help you when your tank is pulling, or with certain boss fights/mechanisms on the server.
- To further improve the damage output, you may want to use the following abilities: Fierce Eye, Deftdance Discipline and Thousand Blades
- Retribution's Edge which has a click that adds Furious Discipline.
- Ultimate Armor Plate Bracer, single target ressurrection click.
Bard Armor
Bard Epic List
Bard Class Epics and Epic Augments 1.0 - 10.0
Epic Effect
- One Man Band 18 second duration raid song mana regen / endurance regen / spell damage % increase (stacks with all Charms / Buffs on EZ)
EZ Custom Spells
| Spell | Drop Location | Research Element | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Song: Harmonious Composition | P1 QVic | Cold | Debuffs Fire, Magic and Cold resists, increases spell damage taken |
| Song: Tempest Blade | P1 QVic | Fire | Adds Tempest Blade proc to groups weapons |
| Song: Elemental A Cappella | P1 Cazic Thule | Cold | Increases Fire, Magic and Cold resistance small spell damage mitigation |
| Song: Purifying A Cappella | P1 Cazic Thule | Holy | Increases Magic, Poison and Disease resists, small spell damage mitigation |
| Song: Harmonious Composition II | T1/T2 Plane of Dragons | Cold | Debuffs Fire, Magic and Cold resists, increases spell damage taken |
| Song: Tempest Blade II | T1/T2 Plane of Dragons | Fire | Adds Tempest Blade proc to groups weapons |
| Song: Bashful Crustaceans Chorus of Rebirth | T4 Airplane | Holy | |
| Song: Over Raided Ballad of Flame | T4 Airplane | Fire | Damage song |
| Song: Chorus of the Risen | T5 Abyss | Holy | Health, Mana, Stamania Regen with Small Cure |
| Song: Elemental A Cappella II | T5 Abyss | Cold | Increases Fire, Magic and Cold resistance small spell damage mitigation |
| Song: Nillipus Stampede of the Wee | T5 Abyss | Magic | Increases AC and melee mitigation |
| Song: Purifying A Cappella II | T5 Abyss | Holy + Nature | Increases Magic, Poison and Disease resists, small spell damage mitigation |
| Song: Tempest Blade III | T5 Abyss | Fire | Adds Tempest Blade proc to groups weapons |
| Song: Harmonious Composition III | T6 Anguish | Cold | Debuffs Fire, Magic and Cold resists, increases spell damage taken |
| Song: Chorus of the Risen II | T7 Loping Plains | Holy | Health, Mana, Stamania Regen with Small Cure |
| Song: Nillipus Stampede of the Wee II | T7 Loping Plains | Magic | Increases AC and melee mitigation |
| Song: Nillipus Stampede of the Wee III | T9 Old Commons | ?? | Increases AC and melee mitigation |
| Song: Harmonious Composition IV | T10 Sunderock Springs | ?? | Debuffs Fire, Magic and Cold resists, increases spell damage taken |
