Classes/Bard
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Description
Bards are the Primary Crowd Control class of Hibernia. They also are a Secondary Healer and a Primary Run Speed class. The Bard more than any other class in the game suffers from some serious design flaws. They have only 1.5x spec points but have six lines to spend them on, this usually results in Bards neglecting their weapon spec.
Character Creation
Bards are the only class in the game that has a spec that rises with level that does absolutely nothing for them (Empathy). Mythic claims that this is a byproduct of being in the Naturalist base class. When creating a Bard the three stats to be concerned with are Charisma, Constitution and Dexterity.
Celts start with more Dex, Firbolgs start with more Str. Odds are the dex will be needed more as Bards don't get any extra as they level.
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Specializations
Nurture contains most of the Bard's songs, including their Spells/Run Speed, Buffs/Endurance Regen and Buffs/Mana Regen songs, along with some Resist songs.
Music is the Bard's Crowd Control line. Most of it isn't considered overly useful on Gaheris, although some of the instant spells can be useful in tight situations. The Spells/Amnesia spells can also be helpful in assisting tanks with peeling mobs.
Regrowth is the Bard's healing line. A Health Regen song is in this line along with a large group heal, on top of the usual major heal that found in all Secondary Healer lines.
Blades Throw your last dozen spec points here, or don't... see the Battle Bard comments below.
Blunt Throw your last dozen spec points here, or don't... see the Battle Bard comments below.
Suggested Specializations
43 Nurture/33 Regrowth/37 Music A good well rounded spec. You rarely need heals, both insta mezzes, Speed 5, End 5, decent heals.
50 Nurture/42 Regrowth/9 Music Bot-specced. Rather lopsided, Pow 5 isn't really worth the extra points.
The Battle Bard
The Battle Bard is not as much a creature to be feared, then a creature to be pitied. None of the Bard's Attributes actually increase Weaponskill. It can be argued that Bards are disadvantaged by even being able to spec Weapons because classes that can not spec weapons get an effective weapon skill bonus as if they had a weapon spec half of their level. The Bard however, typically not speccing in Weapon because they already have too few spec points to begin with end up being one of the weakest classes in the game in melee.
They are further disadvantaged by the fact that all of their Songs, unlike a couple of the Minstrel songs and all of the Skald songs, require an instrument to be equipped. This means that it is difficult, or almost impossible, for a Bard to have their weapon out and a song playing at the same time.
If you are considering playing a Battle Bard you might want to consider a Skald, Minstrel or Warden instead.
On the other hand, there are Battlebard Fans :)
