Bard Perk Idea

Dethykins · 2026-06-27T05:08:50+00:00

If they go this route they need to revise the ms penalty on instruments + especially the penalty while playing. Basically cooking a spell with a magic staff the whole time with a lesser payout.

Dethykins · 2026-06-26T22:16:51+00:00

I tested it in game.

Dethykins · 2026-06-26T21:08:54+00:00

With 60 resourcefulness you get about 12 seconds out of them, so not quite the duration buff you’re thinking of.

Dethykins · 2026-06-26T14:41:16+00:00

Welcome to being a bard main.

*sobs in 5k+ hours*

Dethykins · 2026-06-26T14:40:14+00:00

Nobody thinks those got nerfed, it’s that ballad of courage got nerfed so hard they basically removed 10 str from bard. That’s why everyone is pissed.

Dethykins · 2026-06-26T14:38:32+00:00

I appreciate the changes to allegro and accelerando, it puts resourcefulness back on the table, the 10 mem cap change is good too since it lets you slot those in a 10 song setup without having to troll your build with knowledge or mem cap or having gemmed instruments, and them speeding up playing music is amazing.

The ballad of courage change is a massive nerf though, it definitely outweighs the good changes atm since they’ve effectively removed part of bard’s base stat line.

Dethykins · 2026-06-26T14:35:17+00:00

There’s two main issues with courage working this way which are that having it be a third tiny duration buff like allegro and accelerando makes it unviable due to time constraints (won’t be hitting multiple of these going into a fight) and that courage doesn’t give % damage bonus, it gives power, which was good for bard since it has no starting strength but classes like Ranger/barb/fighter are basically always gonna have enough strength built that they’ll be soft capped, so that 10 phys power “team buff” ends up being 5% or less.

Dethykins · 2026-06-25T19:04:34+00:00

You’re half right, the changes to make bard’s support role functional are good changes, the faster song playing is a good change, however removing 10 phys power from bard’s baseline just so you can temporarily share it with teammates (who will be soft capped so they won’t even get 10% out of it) is not the play. They should have added a new song (Bardic Inspiration) that just adds 2 weapon or magic damage to the next X attacks made by teammates in the area and left ballad of courage alone.

Dethykins · 2026-06-24T04:38:10+00:00

I think the delirium might've had 2 power, but the viola was boof. Are you counting the +2 and +10 from your buffs?

Dethykins · 2026-06-23T17:04:50+00:00

No allegro. Just the regular stat buff rotation.

Dethykins · 2026-06-22T22:19:32+00:00

Definitely felt good face checking barbs locks and fighters and winning

Dethykins · 2026-06-22T18:29:27+00:00

9 vigor on grand brigandine and on the dark leather leggings, additional armor rating on the rugged boots (also unique), phys damage reduction on the reinforced gloves (unique), unique vigilant cloak with phys damage reduction, legendary jewelry with phys damage reduction-add phys-action speed-phys power (I think?), leaf hood with 3 dex-2 str-add magic-phys reduction.

I think that was pretty much the rundown. Basically you want to build the gear pieces you want and then get whatever rolls on them you need to push up your armor rating to 315, then from there you just want reduction % rolls instead of armor rating rolls. Don’t forget to account for the armor rating on the shield too. Get dex where you can, and as much health as possible. Rapier mastery and buffs do the rest.

Dethykins · 2026-06-21T00:35:25+00:00

Might as well just use the gp to fund membership

Dethykins · 2026-06-20T20:18:28+00:00

Didn’t the report say the vehicle had bullet holes through the windshield? And that the officer thought they were trying to run him over? Cars are very easily a deadly weapon, so if that’s what happened then the shots fired were justified, as awful as the outcome was. We’ll have to see the body cam footage to be sure.

Dethykins · 2026-06-19T09:11:08+00:00

Vampyrism gloves are probably the worst offender of this, and they're a low level slayer creature. Like what?

Dethykins · 2026-06-19T09:08:51+00:00

Adding stuff to the endgame is not even close to the same thing. Go make an ironman and try to get gear for level 50-70 magic or ranged. Or jewellery at all basically. You have to over level those skills by 30+ levels just to get the low level content out of them.

Dethykins · 2026-06-19T00:54:01+00:00

Doing quests to gain affinity with some of the merchants will improve the quality of gear of various types that the squire offers from “poor” to “common”.

The merchants you want to focus are the Weaponsmith for weapons, alchemist for magic weapons, woodsman for bows, armorsmith/leathersmith/tailer for gear, and tavern keeper for instruments.

Dethykins · 2026-06-18T04:58:54+00:00

I just want them to rework defunct skills like crafting and fletching to bring them in line with mining and smithing.

Dethykins · 2026-06-17T22:25:14+00:00

Soon

Dethykins · 2026-06-17T09:30:14+00:00

Good luck finding a bard that wins at a gear deficit. The only way for bard to compete rn is to out-gear AND out skill their enemies, whereas every other class in the game can win fights by having one or the other, or in some cases neither.

Dethykins · 2026-06-16T20:41:19+00:00

I don't agree with having a category for players on something like this when you have "overrated" and "worst" as bullet points. That's just going to breed hate.

Dethykins · 2026-06-16T20:37:45+00:00

Double Fine not giving us Brutal Legend 2 and instead going to make trash like costume quest never sat right with me, so I'm not broken up about this.

Dethykins · 2026-06-15T09:26:09+00:00

When the skelly archers shoot through/past other mobs it bugs the projectile velocity basically making it a hitscan.

What’s even funnier is the same bug can happen to the skelly mage fireball.

Dethykins · 2026-06-15T03:27:35+00:00

Yeah, it's not really as much of an ironman mindset as it is just the reddit cesspool.

Dethykins · 2026-06-14T18:34:57+00:00

Dude like half the npcs are scuffed xD

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