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Since I got my greatness yesterday I decided to post my builds here to help new and old bards in their game. I'll explain all the talents and rubies I took as well as why I took them so there's no confusion. Here we go.

Dissonance/Disharmony - this is your main spamming attack. It deals astral damage to an enemy in front of you and which is closest to you in a certain radius so be careful with positioning when you use it.

Elegy/Cantata - this is your main damaging song. Always have it on when you're fighting. It deals shadow damage to every enemy in a 20 yard radius that you're in combat with.

Acoustic Barrier - this is a shield that has a 50% chance to absorb some incoming damage and damaging the attacker. It's good for grinding or leveling when you're waiting for some energy to come back so you can attack.

Solo - this is a skill which does 9 Disharmony attacks in 6 seconds to a random enemy in a 20 yard radius. It's great for 1v1 fights but be careful when you're somewhere where there's a lot of mobs or there's a cc-ed mob.

Romance/Serenade - this skill pulls an enemy to you and knocks it while dealing some damage to it while it's running to you. The farther away your target is the more damage it gets. This skill is great for pulling someone out of a crowd or just taking some mob off a tank so he can have a breather.

Protective Tune - this skill will save your life if (when) you pull aggro and your HP goes down. You'll be almost invulnerable for a few sec, just the
time the tank needs to pull aggro off of you and the healer needs to heal you.

Nocturne - this skill is our only heal and is useful in grinding/lvling. It's also useful as an off-heal to help the healer to focus more on the tank while it heals the party if you're in a hard fight.

Flying Blade - our most damaging skill. You basically throw your weapon at the enemy and that's it. It has a random cd so it can sometimes be annoying and sometimes good. With rubies it deals astral damage.

Power Chord - this skill is spammed at the beginning of any longer fight where you don't kill the mobs in 5 seconds. It increases the damage your Dissonance/Disharmony does on the target by 16% and it stacks up to 3 times while doing a minor DoT. So it boosts the damage of your main spam attack by 48%, just remember to renew it after every 20 seconds or so.

Musical Notation - this talent gives you the 4 buffs any good party needs. It's great because you have a buff for any situation you're in and can fill almost any spot in a party.

Timpani - this skill makes your Dissonance/Disharmony and Power Chord skills into an AoE attack. Just make sure you use it before you use them after every attack. It increases the energy cost of the attacks by a bit but it's worth it for the AoE effect.

Dancing Blade/Raving Blade - this is a casting attack which does damage every second for 5 seconds and a final bigger hit at the end of casting with the rubies. It has a low energy cost so it's great for when you're waiting for your energy to come back.

Muse - this skill reduces the cd of all of your skills by 50% and is great for big fights. With rubies it renews extra energy also.

Overture - this skill has a chance to dispel a magical effect from your target and heals you if it's successful. It's useful in certain fights where mobs have magical effects that can be dispelled.

Encore - this skill resets the cd of all of your skills. I mainly use it when I'm finished with my first muse and my Solo and Flying blade are on cd so you get all 3 in 1 shot and is great for a DPS boost.

Shadow Duette - this skill makes a copy of you somewhere where you place it which plays the same songs you're playing. I mostly switch from my Aria to Nocturne for a sec use it and then go back to Aria for a heal and DPS help if needed.

Perfect Ear - increases proficiency by 9 points.

Astral Blade - makes your Flying Blade do 60% more damage and turns it into an astral attack.

Loud Timpani - increases the range of Dissonance/Disharmony and Power Chord when used with Timpani and Solo by 10 yards and decreases their energy cost by 15%.

Loud Chords - makes your Dissonance/Disharmony and Power Chord do 15% more damage when used with Timpani.

Sharp Chord - increases the damage of Dissonance/Disharmony and Power Chord by 20%.

Long Solo - makes your Solo do 3 extra Dissonance/Disharmony attacks.

Passionate Performance - makes you do 9% more damage while you're at 75% or more of your HP.

Second Fiddle - increases your damage by 6% and decreases your threat by 30% so you don't pull aggro that much.

Lullaby - cc's 1 target which HP is over 90% for 8 sec for every 2 sec of playing. This is a good cc for when you're doing some hard mobs in astral or raids.

Combat Tune - decreases the cd and energy cost of your Dancing Blade/Raving Blade skill by 15%.

Virtuoso - increases determination by 9 points.

Grand Finale - does 1 extra attack at the end of casting of your Dancing Blade/Raving Blade skill for good damage.


Reverberation - when you use your Rhapsody skill on someone else you get a 15% boost to your HP and do 3% more damage for every song you do.

Exaltation - every 2 seconds a song that you preform has a 6% chance to give you an Euphoria effect which boosts your energy regeneration by 10 for 6 seconds. This is really useful for spamming attacks.

Temperament - decreases the energy consumption while preforming more than 1 song by 3. This means that you get 8 energy points in stead of 5 when preforming 2 songs at the same time.

Protective Overtones - increases your armor by 6% for every song you preform.

Funeral March - when your enemy is under 25% hp your Elegy/Cantata will give him this effect. It increases the astral damage done to the target by 100%. I usually wait for this to use my Flying Blade or Solo when I have them off cd at around 35-40% HP for that extra damage boost.

Melpomene - increases your energy regeneration rate by 9 while the muse is on.

Child of fortune - increases luck by 9 points.

Modulation - increases the effectiveness of your Elegy/Cantata and Nocturne skills by 18%.

Aria - grants you an Aria effect every 6 second which adds some damage to your Dissonance/Disharmony attacks and it stacks up to 20. Use it when you're DPS-ing.


Frivolity - resets the cd of your Romance/Serenade skill if a target pulled by it dies in 15 seconds.

Bully - increases your vigor by 9%.

Ballade - a song that grants you and your group members a Ballade effect every 5 seconds (3 with rubies) which blocks an attempt to use a cc skill on you.

Fugue in A minor - a skill that stuns and fears the target you use it on and fears everyone else in a 10 yard radius.



Unison - places a DoT, which can stack up to 3 times, on your target whenever it gets hit by your racial, Flying Blade or Grand Finale attacks.


Trickster - increases your vitality by 15 points.


High Tempo - decreases the time between ticks of Ballade by 33%.

Forbidden Note - decreases the cd of Fugue in A minor by 30% and its cast time by 60%.

Dancing Shadows - makes your target invisible for 10 seconds as long as you don't move. Good skill when you're outnumbered and need to wait for your team or just want a breather.

Menacing Tune - makes your Overture skill slow the target down by 50% for 15 seconds and increases the shadow damage it receives by 15%.

Inspiration - when you dispel something with Overture you get an Inspiration buff which regenerates an extra 10 energy points for 6 seconds.

New Idea - grants you an Improvisation ability. Whenever someone uses a cc skill against you and is blocked by your Ballade you get 1 New Idea buff which can stack up to 4 times. Then you use the Improvisation skill and stun the target for 2 sec for every stack of the New Idea effect and do some damage to it.

Rock and Roll - reduces the cd of Solo by 15 sec for every cc ability that manages to get through your Ballade. In mass PvP if you keep getting targeted you can spam Solo all the time.

These are the skills you get from leveling and finishing world miseries. I don't know the names of the racial skills of the other races so I'll just name them by race.

Steel Luster (elf racial) - blinds the target for 6 seconds and does some damage.

Kanian Racial - immobilizes the target for 6 seconds.

Xadagian Racal - silences the target for 6 seconds.

Orc Racial - stuns the target for 4 seconds.

Allegro - a song that gives you and your party members an Allegro effect every 4 seconds which increases your on foot movement speed by 15% for 15 seconds out of combat and in combat it attempts to dispel a movement impairing effect.

Rhapsody - grants you or a member of your party a Fervor effect which increases the HP of the person by 15% + 15% for every party member in a 100 yard radius. You can only give it to 1 person.


Well that's all folks. Sorry for the multiple posts but I couldn't do a post with more than 10k chars in it. Hope this helps any struggling bards out there. If you have any questions or comments feel free to post them here.

Fid

1. I like to spam Solo a lot. I know some bards use it only on bosses but I do it as long as it's off cd. But I might take it to 1 and take the 1 point in Serenade to get Disharmony up to r3. Still have the DoD so I might use it for that. This is the build I've lvled with and it serves me well.

2. Where would you put the extra 3 rubies for better DPS? I can't find anything to boost it any more.

3. As I said I'll probably remove the Serenade point for Disharmony r3.

4. I never really tested Invigoration because it didn't look like a great boost. I mean I could use it for nocturne but then it wouldn't do much since the ticks are nerfed.

5. I stand by what I said for determination. A lot of mobs and bosses have random target and AoE attacks and whether you like it or not you're gonna get hit so better to get something out of it. The places where I go full crazy AoE bursting are the places I know I can kill the mobs before they kill me so the extra DPS is good. I also have a pala reinc and play it in astral and don't have any mayor problems with holding aggro on multiple mobs.


1. Muse didn't look like a viable option from the start. To take it I'd need 6 talent points to make it useful and I need them in other stuff.

2. I've had a lot of practice with chords and rarely hit something I don't want to hit. And I took all the Raving Blade rubies, just didn't take the 15% damage increase since they only work on Raving Blade.

3. Requiem is random on low ranks and from the healers I've fought there wasn't any difficulty in killing them. And there just aren't enough talents or rubies to max everything out so I decided to ditch it and Nocturne. I've picked the 2 songs I'm running with in PvP and that's it.