Guild Wars 2

One that is ripped straight from D&D where its roots are in Warrior, Thief and Mage. Where you can focus on one line more than the others.

Bard skills (change weapon skill bar):
- Air Guitar
- Earth Drum
- Water Harp
- Fire Sax

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Seriously, the concept of a true Bard is really cool.
With music and such.
ANet would have to develop non-annoying sound effects, and the abilities should be very distinguishable from other professions.

Fletch.4603:

One that is ripped straight from D&D where its roots are in Warrior, Thief and Mage. Where you can focus on one line more than the others.

That isn’t a real bard, if there is a single game that has done bards completely wrong, it’s D&D.

Minstrel = Musician and Thespian
Bard= Celtic Poet Warrior

If you want to know what an actual bard is, read the legends of Finn MacCoul, Oisin, or Cuchulainn, not a manual made by a couple kids in the 80s too lazy to do proper research.

Aside from the DnD aspect of this (Which I have little to no knowledge of), I would like a “Musician” like class, but considering their weapon would be a Lyre/lute/pan flut etc. They have to be like Engineers or Elementalists. Unless as you say they were like traditional Bards Using some sort of weapon.

If we look more at the musical side with a musical instrument, it would be set out similar to Fire = Battle march?, Water = Soothing cords?, Air/Earth = Inspiring Melody?, which will focus on Damage, Healing/Condition removal and Buffing.

But if we take the traditional bard into it it could use normal weapons accompanied with sound/vocal attacks/buffs like Sonnets, singing, they did a little music but you would need a “instrumental weapon” for that i suppose.

It could be quite interesting.

I would like to see Minstrels and Bards. My char is a singer and I have formed an artists’ guild, The Starving Artists of Divinity.

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Just copy EQ bards. Please.

Conncept.7638:

Fletch.4603:

One that is ripped straight from D&D where its roots are in Warrior, Thief and Mage. Where you can focus on one line more than the others.

That isn’t a real bard, if there is a single game that has done bards completely wrong, it’s D&D.

Minstrel = Musician and Thespian
Bard= Celtic Poet Warrior

If you want to know what an actual bard is, read the legends of Finn MacCoul, Oisin, or Cuchulainn, not a manual made by a couple kids in the 80s too lazy to do proper research.

maybe you should actually look at the mechanic before you pass the judgement. They had instruments, their abilities were actually just chants or praises..the etymology of Bard means to praise aloud and Bards were known as being charming and motivational. I think they did pretty well in giving a set of abilities within an ambiguous name that people could role play how they wanted.

5 Trees

1. Magic
2. Swashbuckler-Warrior
3. Survival
4. Music
5. Thief