Bard - PvP Build

Overview

Class: Bard

Designed for: PvP

Focused on: Healer

Difficulty:

Easy

Strengths

• Great AoE Healing
• Easy to Play
• Great Buffs
• Great Mobility

Weaknesses

• Squishy
• Can be boring to play

Overview

This Bard PVP build focuses on managing CC and providing CC against enemies for your team to capitalize on and take down quickly. However, the Bard also offers incredible buffs for the team alongside strong AOE heals and sustain alongside movement speed increase and mana regeneration. The Bard is truly the center of any PVP party regardless of group size.

Skills

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• Instrument Flute is just as good of a choice as Instrument Drum or Instrument Fiddle. There is no real difference between them, the only difference is in the sound coming out when you use singing skills.

Equipment

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Weapons

Greatsword

Book

Stamina

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As a Bard, avoid investing in Sustained Guard first, as you typically rely on skills like Flourish to stay mobile rather than blocking. Your main strategy focuses on dodging and sprinting. Start by prioritizing Escape Velocity to increase your sprinting speed in combat (default key **C**). This is crucial later on, helping you kite enemies during cooldowns or quickly escape danger.

Next, put points into Recuperation Training and Evasive Maneuver to boost your dodge evasion rate. These upgrades also unlock Springstep, which improves your mobility by increasing your dodge distance.

Finally, allocate any leftover points to **Guard Training** to reduce stamina costs when blocking (default key **E**). Adding Mental Fortification can also be helpful, as it lowers your chance of being crowd-controlled (CC’d) while blocking, which can be useful in certain situations.

Rotations

AOE Healing & Buffing Rotation ↴

• This is the main rotation you should use when grinding mobs and AOE farming in a group, aiming to maximize the healing and buffing you provide to the party without using long cooldowns.

• Start with Pensive Melody to gain good mana regen for yourself and your party before using Shielding Dance to both heal and shield them as they deal damage. Follow up with Anthem of Alacrity (AOE) to boost their damage before using Mesmerizing Dance on top of a group of mobs so it becomes trivial for your group to kill them.

• Use Lovely Serenade (AOE) to further heal your party before using Hymn of the Mind (AOE) & Pensive Melody to restore your party's mana and make it easier to prepare for another pull.

Saga Rotation 1 (The Apocalypse) ↴

• Use this rotation to boost party and your own damage while also placing down an AOE flame field that does constant damage. Just like the other Saga combos, you want to use your skills in the right order. Start with Conflict to get the first buff, increasing physical power then use Chaos to increase Magical Critical Chance for both yourself and your party members. Once the Conflict cooldown is over, use it again before using Saga to trigger The Apocalypse.

Saga Rotation 2 (The Horrors of the Void) ↴

• Similar to The Apocalypse, this rotation will build up and trigger a Saga version that does even more damage. Use Conflict to boost physical power before using Chaos to also increase Magical Crit Chance for both yourself and other party members. Finally, use Destiny as this increases Physical Critical Chance as well. Once you've used all three skills, use Saga to put down an AOE field dealing high damage but also knock back enemies, so make sure to only use this if you don't plan on having the mobs stacked together.

Saga Rotation 3 (The Return to Verra) ↴

• This is the support Saga rotation, being an effective way of healing up the entire party. Start with Triumph to increase Max Health and Stamina regeneration before using Joy to apply temporary extra max health. Once ready, use Triumph again before using Flourish to apply Pep to all party members. Finally, use Saga to both heald and apply the Glee buff, improving follow-up healing.