Bard

Wood Elf Bard using Ultimate Long SwordXII 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

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