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Quoted from "Hilver"

Both the farming and PVP builds have some weird combinations of rubies and talents as follows:

Quoted from "Hilver"

In farming build:

Quoted from "Hilver"

1-your elegy isn't maxed so how would you max cantata without maxing elegy?I understand you might have forgotten to max elegy first in calculator but now you can fix it anyway so there won't be any confusion.
ITS MISTAKE MUST BE R3 ELEGY IN CALCULATOR
2-I'd pick all second fiddle rubies,these rubies reduces your aggro so mobs won't focus you instead of tank specially in AOE pulls (for example when farming epic or leggy wellebelle mobs with a raid or a party and they tend to pull groups)and also increases your over all damage I'd pick its last ruby instead of a determination ruby or a grand finale ruby.
OO YOU FARMING WLEBELE MOBS ? LEGY AND EPICS THINK ALL IN SERVER ONLY GO WITH RAIDS AND DPS-ING
3-Unison is quite better than the solo rubies in long fights like soloing wellebelle mobs and with good brutality and 9 stacks it hits hard.
UNISON NOT NEED IN LOWER CITY AND NOT NEED KOE
4-r3 solo isn't worth it in my opinion because its 2 more ticks for 5 talent points soo actually rubies the solo rubies are even more worth it.
WELL POWER CHORD + SOLO 9 DISHARMONY HITS WITH ARIA THEN ENCORE AND AGAIN SOLO ITS WAS 18 DISHARMONY HITS IN 10 SECONDS GO AND CHECK BETTER 18 HITS OR 10 ...
5-protective tune is a great life saver and the lower its CD the better so having it at r2 at least is quite worth it.
NOT IMPOSIBLE DIE IN LOWER CITY AND IN KOE IF HAVE MILION DEBUF TO YOU NOT HELPED R 2 OR 3 PROTECTIVE TUNE
6-Muse r3+its rubies are a great boost for bards like 30 seconds of awesomeness and you can encore and again for 60 seconds of awesomeness so I'd recommend maxing it out instead of solo.WHERE IN FARMING NEED MUSE? MAYBE WHEN HAVE LV 3 RUNES OR KILING EWRY MOB 1 MINUTE TIME
7-combat tune is only 15% less CD and less energy cost for a skill whose energy cost is already small and 15% only so kinda meh and not actually a great priority so I'd recommend getting invigoration rubies instead to run 3 songs at once in a single fight then you can encore to run 3 songs again in another fight..3 songs simply mean more damage from reverberation and more chance for euphoria to pop and more armor gained from armor rubies +3rd song's effect.
WHERE IN FARMING NEED 3 BARD SONGS THAT I USE INVIGORATION
8-Determination rubies are good for solo farming and leveling builds yes since you have no tank but not in parties and raids and I have a good reason to say that..

Quoted from "Hilver"

In PVP build:

Quoted from "Hilver"

1-First of all that's a PVP build with almost no CC as all the CC you have is rank 1 improvisation which is a 1 sec stun per stack if your ballade blocks a CC effect and racial and yet you have punishment for weakness rubies which deal 20% more damage to CC ed targets,how do you intend to efficiently use these rubies? DOMI I GO IN CONSTA PARTY WITH OTHER BARD SO ALWAYS HAVE BALADE WITHAUT USE RUBIES ON INVIGORATION
2-Again r3 solo is 2 ticks for 5 talent points..I don't see it a winning trade at all so I guess the rubies are enough.ABAUT SOLO I TOLD 18 DISHARMONY HITS BEETER THEN YOUR 10 ....
3-No serenade or even romance..Serenade is a very good skill in PVP as it simply pulls far away targets so very efficient vs scouts and mages and even engineers or enemies who are trying to flee.I USE PALADIN SKILL STRIKE OF JUSTICE PLUS USE REZONANCE POINT SKILL SO MY CHORDS GO 40 YARDS+ I RUN AND STUN EMEMY WHY I NEED ROMANCE?
4-Fugue in a minor+its rubies..I guess I don't need to mention why it's an op AOE fear and a stun for main target which can be around 12 sec CC if you encore and double fugue in a minor. ENCORE I USE WITH F BLADE AND SOLO 2 F BLADE AND 18 DISHARMONY MAKE DAMAGE THAT SOMETIMES NOT NEED MORE USE TO ENEMY NO MORE FEAR SLOW BLIND OR OTHER CONTROL
5-You have r1 muse in PVP..Muse is a very vital talent in PVP and having it at least at r2 is quite important as muse makes you cast your etudes faster and PVP is much dependent on etudes (raving blade,serenade,fugue in a minor,overture and even ode)SAVE MUSE FOR LAST JC RAUND AND ENOUGHT R1
6-Determination rubies are more important for me in PVP than PVE and getting them in PVP is quite worth it as you're more exposed to receive damage in PVP and hard damage too so it might 1 hit fill determination bar sometimes..DETERMINATION NOT THAT WERY NECESARY SKILL THAT NEED USE RUBIES
7-Maxing out overture instead of maxing out muse? or even r2 muse+r2 encore..This doesn't seem quite efficient..You see r1 overture has 3 seconds cast time and r2 overture has 2 seconds cast time and r3 overture has 1.5 seconds cast time while r3 muse is 3 mins CD and reduces overture's cast time as well as all other etudes' cast times by 50% (halved) so 1.5 seconds for overture cast time if you have r3 muse as well as halving the cast time of all other etudes. YOUR CHOISE MUSE MY FASTEST OVERTUDE
8-You have only dancing blades and no raving blade..I'd prefer r2 dancing and r2 raving as raving has far higher range than dancing blades and range is an important factor in PVP as well. ITS TRUE BUT NOT ENOUGHT RUBIES
9-Again protective tune is a very important talent for bards and a great life saver and I'd focus it even more in PVP as having it lower CD is better specially in PVP.

Quoted from "Hilver"

That's all my thoughts and good luck!