[Guide] Offensive Bard (Pre-G12)

• Maxdra wrote on 2010-08-10 18:35
  Yes, my first post is a guide. XD
  I hope everyone will welcome me here.
  
  

  [SIZE="5"]OFFENSIVE BARD[/SIZE]

  
  
  Role:
  Party Play/Support-class (which means if you rank this first you will have a hard time leveling (aka lack AP gaining skills)
  
  Minimum Skills Requirment:
  Rank 9 Playing Instrument
  Rank Novice Golem Summon
  
  Suggested:
  Rank 5+ Playing Instrument
  Rank 9 Musical Knowledge (to write status/healing boosting scrolls)
  Rank 9 Composing (to write status/healing boosting scrolls)
  Rank 6 Combat Mastery (War Cry scroll requirement)
  Rank 6 Magic Mastery (Blessing of Full moon scroll requirement)
  Rank 9+ Alchemy Mastery
  Rank 9+ Summon Golem
  Rank 9+ Barrier Spikes
  
  Equipments/Enchants:
  Defensive/Protection Gear and Enchants Recommended
  
  People question the usefulness of a bard in battle. So here's a "sub-class".
  As many people know, you can use the playing instrument skill, while controlling a golem. :what:
  
  
  With music rank 9+ you will be able to start buffing party members with magical music scores while maintaining a usefulness with your powerful golem. Your buffs will be limited to Status increase and healing music. Unfortunately, the increase tends to be too small for any useful purposes.
  
  
  With Playing Instrument Rank 5+ your usefulness will really start to shine.
  
  Peaceful Music: Cancels aggressive on active monster.
  
  Berserker: Invoke all party members with 100% Passive Heavy Stand, Magic Reflector and Natural Shield.
  
  Fast Casting: Reduce Magic Aiming speed by 90% of original cast time.
  
  Fast Aim: Increase aiming speed by 120%.
  
  
  G11 Scrolls from Briana is where things really starts to heat up. People overlook this girl name Briana located in Tara castle. Briana - Mabinogi World Wiki
  
  She sells pre-enchanted blank musical scores:
  
  Plentiful Time: Increase the Max hp of all party members.
  
  Passion of Youth: Increase all states of all party members.
  
  Blessing of Full Moon: Restore mp to all party members by percentage.*
  
  War Cry: Decrease defense but increase damage of party members.*
  
  Seal of Time: Decrease defense of enemies.
  
  *Note: Blessing of Full Moon and War Cry requires a Very High rank of combat mastery or magic mastery.
  Scroll Requirement from Mabiworldwiki
  New Scrolls Info
  Credit to Phunkie(Mabination) for finding it and Mabidata for being awesome.
  
  Combat?
  You will only be as strong as your Summon Golem Rank and only be as useful as your Playing Instrument Rank.
  
  Party Play: Use your golem to protect yourself and for offense.
  
  Solo Play: Self buffs are near useless, so it's best to avoid those and use offensive music like Seal of Time or Peaceful Music.
  
  
  Tips:
  Make sure you play your scores correctly before switching to golem. (Unless otherwise intended:lol:)
  
  
  Run to a safe spot and Use Barrier spikes if necessary. In Dungeons and Shadow Missions, during party play, you can be located outside of the "battle area" with the golem inside. :awesome:
  
  
  Bring Potions. :what: Hp, Mp, Stama + feathers
  
  
  Don't be afraid to cancel your playing to remove yourself from an unfavorable position.
  
  
  Don't depend entirely on your golem. (or party members for that matter :lol:)
  
  
  
  The skills Summon Golem and Playing Instrument, itself, is another story to tell. So I won't talk about those here. This is just a useful combination of those two.
  
  
  
  Comment? Suggestion? Missing anything?
  
  __________________________________________________________________
  
  Credit to:
  Mabinogiworld for being an awesome guide I used for years.
  Kahlan80(Alexina) - For inspiration and getting me back into mabi music.
  Credit to Phunkie(Mabination) for finding new scroll info
  Mabidata for being awesome and up-to-date.
• Chiri wrote on 2010-08-10 18:48
  Interesting guide.
  
  I feel like rather than a bard sub-class, this fits more under golem summoner/alchemist.
  I'm maxed in all music skills, but the bonuses -even the fast aiming and magic cast ones- are still laughable.
  Most archers shoot way before 100%, and mages don't use bolts. Berserker more often then not gets players killed due to no knockback. Peaceful backfires very often, and is better saved on dragon hunts.
  
  The usefulness of your character is, as you said, based on your rank of Golem.
  Playing music while summoning is like an extra side benefit you can throw in, and I don't know if it'd really outdamage a 'regular' player using melee.
  
  Blessing of Full Moon seems like the only thing that'd change this up, but +mana regen music is already pretty decent.
• Phunkie wrote on 2010-08-10 18:52
  Wow, nice guide!
  
  I forgot about the scrolls that G11 NPC sells.
  
  Bards can be very useful if they set their minds to it. :)
• paladin wrote on 2010-08-10 18:52

  Quote from Chiri;120109:

  Interesting guide.
  
  I feel like rather than a bard sub-class, this fits more under golem summoner/alchemist.
  I'm maxed in all music skills, but the bonuses -even the fast aiming and magic cast ones- are still laughable.
  Most archers shoot way before 100%, and mages don't use bolts. Berserker more often then not gets players killed due to no knockback. Peaceful backfires very often, and is better saved on dragon hunts.
  
  The usefulness of your character is, as you said, based on your rank of Golem.
  Playing music while summoning is like an extra side benefit you can throw in, and I don't know if it'd really outdamage a 'regular' player using melee.
  
  Blessing of Full Moon seems like the only thing that'd change this up, but +mana regen music is already pretty decent.

  
  
  Those g11 scrolls have the chance to make the subclass useful thou
  If the full moon blessing is alot it will help adv magic
  And if those stat boasters are big it might be useful
• Chiri wrote on 2010-08-10 19:02
  Do you know how stat boost works, right?
  You get a bonus of 0-15, and 75% of the time, its 7 or less. You're pretty much never going to get that 6 max; its extremely undependable.
  
  Unless they change 'musical balance', playing music will be too useless to bring into dungeons.
• Moppy wrote on 2010-08-10 19:03
  Interesting guide but I think an Archer or Knight with Bard skills would be more effective.
• Shirayuki wrote on 2010-08-10 19:05
  Might want to include branching into melee eventually and using a Battle Mando lol :D
• Maxdra wrote on 2010-08-10 19:37

  Quote from Chiri;120117:

  Do you know how stat boost works, right?
  You get a bonus of 0-15, and 75% of the time, its 7 or less. You're pretty much never going to get that 6 max; its extremely undependable.
  
  Unless they change 'musical balance', playing music will be too useless to bring into dungeons.

  
  
  I think the percentage is even lower then that. :XD:
  I've yet to get anything higher then 4. :T_T:
  But stat boost is stackable with status changing magic.
• Toujirou wrote on 2010-08-10 23:12
  When u said that the blessing of full moon adds mp to all players by percentage is it that at certain times it adds like 3% of players max mana? or does it add the same amount of mana to each player?
• paladin wrote on 2010-08-10 23:45
  Oh god that really kills it
  So this really is only like a golem summoner support class
• Maxdra wrote on 2010-08-11 00:00

  Quote from Toujirou;120401:

  When u said that the blessing of full moon adds mp to all players by percentage is it that at certain times it adds like 3% of players max mana? or does it add the same amount of mana to each player?

  
  
  From the Japanese wiki, it's percentage of the max mana and is based on musical knowledge rank starting at rank 6. At rank 6 musical knowledge, it's 4% every 10 seconds. At rank 5-2, it's 5% every 10 seconds. At rank 1, it's 6% every 10 seconds. Meaning if NA Nexon doesn't uncap musical Knowledge, your stuck at 4% every 10 seconds. It also seems Brena's scores can only be 1 min long.
• Phunkie wrote on 2010-08-11 00:00
  Here's some information on the new scrolls!
  
  
  

  Quote from Soluna:

  Magical Music:
  Another feature enhanced is the Magical Music, instead of adding puny stat boosts (which foods can add more...), the new Music will really help out in party plays.
  
  The music can be purchased from the Lovely NPC Brianna in the Royal Music Hall at a price...
  

  [Image: http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu39/mabiimperium/MabiData/Briana.jpg]

  
  
  There's couple things to know about these new magical musics:
  1. In order to activate the music, you must have appropriate skill ranks some require other skills other than music.
  2. The higher your music skills, the more bonus you will receive.
  3. 100% activate rate if you have the required skill to activate.
  4. All party member will receive bonus, even pets.
  5. Different scroll will cost different mp/stamina when played, if mp/stamina run out during play, music will be canceled.
  6. No matter how long the music is, it will only last for 1min. (boost scroll will last 1min, recovery scroll will recover 5 times in 1min).
  
  Below is a list of the musics and effects:
  Glorious Moment*
  Price：25000G
  Uses：100
  Requirement：Music Knowledge rB+
  Effect：+ Max HP Rate
  Cost/Sec：Stamina 0.5, MP 0.5
  
  RF： HP+100
  RE： HP+101
  RD： HP+102
  RC： HP+104
  RB： HP+106
  RA： HP+109
  R9： HP+112
  R8： HP+116
  R7： HP+120
  R6： HP+125
  R5： HP+130
  R4： HP+136
  R3： HP+142
  R2： HP+149
  R1： HP+156
  
  
  Passion of Youth*
  Price：40000G
  Uses：100
  Requirement：Music Knowledge rB+
  Effects：+STR, INT, DEX, WILL, LUK
  Cost/Sec： Stamina 0.7, MP1
  
  RF：Stat +20
  RE：Stat+20
  RD：Stat+20
  RC：Stat+20
  RB：Stat+21
  RA：Stat+21
  R9：Stat+22
  R8：Stat+23
  R7：Stat+24
  R6：Stat+25
  R5：Stat+26
  R4：Stat+27
  R3：Stat+28
  R2：Stat+29
  R1：Stat+31
  
  
  Age's Scar*
  Price：36000G
  Uses：100
  Requirement：Music Knowledge rA+
  Effect：Reduce Enemy Defense
  Cost/Sec： Stamina 1,MP1
  
  RF：-18
  RE：-18
  RD：-18
  RC：-18
  RB：-19
  RA：-19
  R9：-20
  R8：-20
  R7：-21
  R6：-22
  R5：-23
  R4：-24
  R3：-25
  R2：-26
  R1：-28
  
  
  Cry of Battle Field*
  Price：58000G
  Uses：100
  Requirement：Music Knowledge r6+, Combat Mastery r6+
  Effect：+Min/Max Attack, Lower Party Defense
  Cost/sec： Stamina 1, MP2
  
  RF：Min/Max Attack+20%, Def-10
  RE：Min/Max Attack+20%, Def-10
  RD：Min/Max Attack+20%, Def-10
  RC：Min/Max Attack+20%, Def-10
  RB：Min/Max Attack+21%, Def-10
  RA：Min/Max Attack+21%, Def-10
  R9：Min/Max Attack+22%, Def-11
  R8：Min/Max Attack+23%, Def-11
  R7：Min/Max Attack+24%, Def-12
  R6：Min/Max Attack+25%, Def-12
  R5：Min/Max Attack+26%, Def-13
  R4：Min/Max Attack+27%, Def-13
  R3：Min/Max Attack+28%, Def-14
  R2：Min/Max Attack+29%, Def-14
  R1：Min/Max Attack+31%, Def-15
  
  
  Full Moon's Blessing*
  Price：94000G
  Uses：50
  Requirement：Music Knowledge r6+, Magic Mastery r6+
  Effect：Recover Party MP，At 11sec, 22 sec, 32 sec, 43 sec, 53 sec
  Cost/sec： Stamina 2, MP 3
  
  RF：Recover 4%(total 20%)
  RE：Recover 4%(total 20%)
  RD：Recover 4%(total 20%)
  RC：Recover 4%(total 20%)
  RB：Recover 4%(total 20%)
  RA：Recover 4%(total 20%)
  R9：Recover 4%(total 20%)
  R8：Recover 4%(total 20%)
  R7：Recover 4%(total 20%)
  R6：Recover 5%(total 25%)
  R5：Recover 5%(total 25%)
  R4：Recover 5%(total 25%)
  R3：Recover 5%(total 25%)
  R2：Recover 5%(total 25%)
  R1：Recover 6%(total 30%)
  
  *Scroll Translation may Vary.
  
  And that's all, good luck with G11 everyone =w=

  
  
  MabiData.net • View topic - [G11S1/S2] Journal Achievement / Guild Hall / Magical Music
  
  I love MabiData, man. Those people are always up-to-date.
• Everwanderer wrote on 2010-08-11 01:41

  Quote from Phunkie;120452:

  Here's some information on the new scrolls!
  
  
  
  
  MabiData.net • View topic - [G11S1/S2] Journal Achievement / Guild Hall / Magical Music
  
  I love MabiData, man. Those people are always up-to-date.

  
  
  Thanks for the link, now I've seen how the guild hall looks.
  Time to bug Zat.... hey zaaaaaaaaaaaaat~
• Chiri wrote on 2010-08-11 01:58
  Geh, the best scroll has an r6 magic mastery requirement. No thanks.
• Kaeporo wrote on 2010-08-11 03:07

  Quote from Chiri;120581:

  Geh, the best scroll has an r6 magic mastery requirement. No thanks.

  
  
  You mean to say that the best scroll has a r6 combat mastery requirement.