Dark and Darker has a classic PvE and PvP setup, making it an ideal choice for RPG fans. The game has been a hit ever since the game came into Early Access in 2023. Dark and Darker currently has 8 classes, and Bard is one of those classes. However, selecting a class depends on your playing style and the character stats you want to achieve. The Dark and Darker Bard is a unique magic user since it casts musically themed spells. Their diverse skill set enables them to provide a party with a great range of support, including damage dealing, healing, buffing, and rebuffing. Bard should strengthen his team as an effective support character, but don’t overlook his shortcomings. This guide will highlight the perks, skills, music, and weaponry Bard uses and their benefits.
Perks of Dark and Darker Bard
Characters are passively enhanced via perks. In the “class” tab, you can modify the Dark and Darker Bard perks in your loadout. You can only access one perk space at Level 0, but you can access additional slots at Levels 5, 15, and 20. These perks were chosen to make Bard a respectable solo character as well as a fantastic support class:
- Charismatic Performance: Transforms a mediocre performance into an amazing one.
- Jolly Time: Ale gives you a 10-movement speed increase and heals 5 HP when consumed.
- Dancing Feet: Move ten times faster when carrying an instrument.
- War Song: The weapon attack power of close teammates is increased by 3 for 6 seconds if the performance is successful.
- Lore Mastery: All forms of interaction speed are increased by 25%.
- Rapier Mastery: Action speed is increased by 5% and weapon damage is increased by 3 when utilizing a rapier.
- Storyteller: Assign each party member a +3 will as well as a knowledge boost.
- Melodic Protection: The caster has a 15% benefit to physical damage reduction while playing an instrument.
- Reinforced Instruments: Playing a musical instrument while attacking grants a 50% bonus to weapon damage.
- Wanderer’s Luck: Raises the likelihood of discovering premium goods when opening treasure chests.
- Superior Dexterity: Switching between weapons and utility items is 50% faster.
Best weaponry for Bard
Musical instruments as weapons: Bards can play songs (cast spells) with musical instruments that resemble a cleric’s spell book. To cast the spells, players must perform the songs. The effectiveness of the spell will depend on how well the player plays. The Bard can now play the following instruments:
- War drums
- lute
- Flute
- Lyre
Rapiers: Bards are extremely skilled at using the Rapier, the best weapon to incur melee damage upon your enemy.
Crossbow: It will easily deal mid-level damage when used as a two-handed ranged weapon.
Skills for Bard
A skill can be used for that time by pressing “Q” or “E” to start it. The Dark and Darker Bard abilities are unique due to his capacity for storing additional skills known as Sheet Music. To improve both his and his allies’ gameplay, Bard mostly depends on his instruments and his aptitude for playing songs straight from the music sheets. For this reason, selecting skills that allow you to keep as many music sheets as possible is ideal.
- Dissonance: Makes a terrible sound to stop or block adversaries in a certain region from casting spells and to silence them for three seconds.
- Music Memory: Can hold 4 sheets of music if there is enough room.
- Encore: Without input, the next song is automatically played through to the finish and is guaranteed to succeed.
- Music Memory 2: Can hold up to 4 music sheets if there is enough room.
Best Songs for Bard
The Bard can use songs as musical spells to strengthen his allies or weaken his adversaries. Bard uses sheet music to perform songs. Therefore, you must ensure that you have at least one Music Memory Skill equipped. The standard “right click” is used to launch songs played on magical instruments. The Bard will boost allies based on how skillfully they perform the song. The songs are divided based on the instrument used to play them; these are:
Drum
- Allegro: Boosts your and your allies’ action and spell-casting speeds gradually for eight seconds, depending on how well you perform.
- Din of Darkness: Deals Dark Magic damage to every opponent in the vicinity of the performer. How well the music is played determines how much damage is done with every beat.
Flute
- Unchained Harmony: Opens all locked non-special doors and containers with Unchained Harmony.
- Shriek of Weakness: Diminishes the surrounding foes’ physical strength and armour level.
Lyre
- Calm: Restores two HP every second.
- Ballad of Courage: Increases physical power by 10%.
- Harmonic Shield: Increases magic resistance and armour rating by +40.
Lute
- Peacemaking: Enchanting the adjacent players and monsters and causing them to briefly lose all will to fight.
- Chaotic discord: Enemies will attack each other instead of the Bard (performer).
- Lament of Languor: Decreases all enemy targets’ movement speed by 20%.
General tips for playing the Bard class
- Chaotic Discord can be very well used for solo enemy room cleaning. Mobs will kill each other instead of the Bard.
- Bard needs precise timing in order to perform spells well therefore a lot of anticipation and practice is required to play this class.
Conclusion
The Dark and Darker Bard is a formidable opponent in every fight, thanks to their captivating performances, strong magic, and sly strategies. However, using Bard requires a lot of precision and timing to effectively use the music spells and fulfil their function as the best support type character. Also, don’t forget to purchase Dark and Darker Gold from U7BUY to make smoother progress with Bard class.
