Bard

Bard
Job Base(s):	Archer
Job Type:	2-2
Job Level:	50
Race:	Human
Changes At:	Comodo
Number of Skills:	18
Total Skill Points:	91
Total Quest Skills:	1
Job Bonuses
STR AGI VIT INT DEX LUK +2 +7 +3 +5 +9 +4

Overview

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After a life of plucking their bows, many Archers feel the itch to strum strings of a different kind. The Bards of Ragnarok Online are the right choice for the idealists among Archers who wish to change the world with their poetry.

The voice of a Bard is laden with magical harmonies, singing hymns that invoke the ancient Gods of Asgard to instill fear in the hearts of his enemies and inspire his comrades to victory with songs of eternal youth and glorious charges. Where their female counterparts, the Dancers, are more bent on disruption, Bards specialize in support, which make them central in all defensive strategies during the War of Emperium.

Supporting with a Bard or Dancer requires a different approach than other classes. Music-based buffs are mostly percentual values, as opposed to the absolute values of Priest buffs, and require careful strategy and positioning, but playing as an Archer should already provide some experience in this respect. Despite their supportive role, one should not forget that Bards are also capable of dealing good quantities of damage, one of their main advantages over Hunters is their immense SP pool which allows them to continually use Double Strafe instead of normal attacks, ensuring a very nice damage output.

In general, there are 2 types of skills for both Dancers and a Bards; skills which can be sung or danced without a partner of the opposite gender and those where the player needs another Bard or Dancer respectively.

As a Bard, only Instruments, Daggers, and Bows are available for weapons, whereas Dancers can use Whips instead of Instruments.

• When armed with an Instrument:
  • Bow skills (Double Strafe, Arrow Shower, Arrow Repel) cannot be used
  • Performance Skills, as well as Amp and Encore are available
  • Instrument skills (Melody Strike) can be used

Unbarring Octave and Pang Voice are usable regardless of weapons.

Jobchange Guide

See Bard Job Change Guide for detailed information.

In order to become a Bard, one must go to Comodo and look for the Roaming Bard. The applicant has to perform various tasks:

• Item Collection
• Making friends with Mr. Snowman in Lutie
• Singing Test

Once these have been completed, the applicant will be made a bard by the Roaming Bard.

Class Data

Note: The iRO Bard Skill Section is very outdated. Do not be surprised if some of the skill descriptions differ from the website contents (i.e. Acoustic Rhythm), they have been contrasted with the ingame descriptions and the more up-to-date Korean website.

Skills

See Archer Skills for first class skills.

Solo Skills

Skill	Description	Levels	Type
Amp	Cancels active Performance Skill the caster is performing.	1	Active
Encore	Recast the last Performance Skill that was cast at half of the SP cost.	1	Active
Impressive Riff	Increases ASPD of all players in the 7x7 area of effect.	10	Active
Magic Strings	Reduces Cast Time and Cast Delay of skills used inside the 7x7 area of effect.	10	Active
Melody Strike	Use an instrument-class weapon to do ranged damage to a single target.	5	Offensive
Music Lessons	Increases damage with Instruments, Movement Speed while singing and the effect of certain Performance Skills.	10	Passive
Perfect Tablature	Raises Flee Rate and Perfect Dodge of all players in the 7x7 area of effect.	10	Active
Song of Lutie	Increases the the Max HP of all players in the area of effect.	10	Active
Unbarring Octave	Freeze monsters and party members within caster's view by chance.	5	Active
Unchained Serenade	Hits enemies in a 9x9 area with a slow sonic attack, piercing their defense.	5	Offensive

Ensemble Skills

Ensemble skills can only be performed when a Bard and Dancer are in the same party and standing beside each other. When an Ensemble skill is performed by a Bard and Dancer, the lower level of Acoustic Rhythm is performed. (i.e. when a Bard that has learned Acoustic Rhythm Lv.5 performs the skill with a Dancer that has only learned Acoustic Rhythm Lv.3, the Bard and Dancer will perform Acoutic Rhythm Lv.3)

Skill	Description	Levels	Type
Acoustic Rhythm	Increases resistance against all Elements and Status Effects of party members within the 9x9 area of influence.	5	Active
Battle Theme	Party members within this skill's 9x9 area will have increased ATK and DEF for the skill's duration.	5	Active
Classical Pluck	Casts a 9x9 area around the caster where all skills are disabled.	1	Active
Down Tempo	Reduces all DEF derived from the VIT stat to 0 for all enemies within the 9x9 area of effect.	1	Active
Harmonic Lick	Provides a bonus of armor piercing damage (ignores DEF) to all players within the 9x9 area of effect, as long as they're wielding level 4 weapons.	5	Supportive
Lullaby	Sing a dreamy song to put enemies in a 9x9 area to sleep.	1	Active
Mental Sensing	Increases the EXP earned from monsters killed in the affected 9x9 area.	5	Active
Power Cord	Cast a 9x9 cell area around the casters that nullifies item costs for most skills.	1	Active

Quest Skills

Skill	Description	Levels	Type	Job Level Requirement	Quest
Pang Voice	The Bard screams out at a single target, attempting to inflict Chaos status effect.	1	Active	40	Pang Voice Quest

Soul Link

See Bard and Dancer Spirits.

Skill	Description	Levels	Type
Slow Grace	(If level 10 Impressive Riff is learned) Decrease attack and movement speed of all enemies within the 7x7 area of effect.	10	Active
Lady Luck	(If level 10 Magic Strings is learned) Improves CRIT rate of all players within the 7x7 area of effect.	10	Active
Focus Ballet	(If level 10 Perfect Tablature is learned) Improves HIT of all players within the 7x7 area of effect.	10	Active
Gypsy's Kiss	(If level 10 Song of Lutie is learned) Increase max SP and SP regeneration while reducing the SP consumption of all players within the 7x7 area of effect.	10	Active

Unimplemented Skills

Skill	Description	Levels	Type
Ragnarok	Randomly casts spells in the area of effect for 60 seconds.	Unknown	Offensive

Job Bonuses

Stat\Amount	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5	+6	+7	+8
STR	3	28
AGI	2	10	11	24	30	35	48
VIT	17	33	43
INT	5	13	21	40	47
DEX	7	15	16	19	32	38	46	50
LUK	6	9	20	41

ASPD

Weapon	Base ASPD	Base Delay
Unarmed
Dagger
Bow
Instrument

External Links

• General Stat Calculator