Bard Masteries
Bard Masteries are special abilities came with the Publish 66 that can be obtained by completing one of the mastery quests: The Beacon of Harmony quest for the Peacemaking mastery, Indoctrination of a Battle Rouser quest for the Provocation mastery or Wielding the Sonic Blade quest for the Discordance mastery. Book of Bard Masteries will be rewarded upon quest completion containing the masteries abilities aka songs.
Once a mastery has been choosen, its both abilities ("songs") are freely usable at any time and only have as requirements the skills (both musicianship and the Mastery Skill must be above 90.0) and mana costs. For the abilities to work, the party must remain within range of the Bard to remain under its effects. Bards may be interrupted when they receive damage while using their abilities. A bard may only have one mastery in effect at a time and the buffs/debuffs provided by the songs do not stack with the one of other bards. All abilities require Upkeep (required Mana per second for the spellsong to be active) dependent on how many are being affected by the ability. Upkeep costs raises with every 5 mobiles (characters, pets and mounted pets) by 1 Mana. The abilities are subject to a beneficial action check. If a member of the party is flagged grey, a bard running a beneficial song gets flagged too.
Note that Bard Masteries can be used to train Musicianship and the three bard skills.
As of Publish 67, bard spell songs are no longer interrupted by spellcasting. As of Publish 73, PvM Damage now has a chance to interrupt based on damage amount. Bards with either provocation or peacemaking mastery can have both their mastery spell songs active at the same time and Bards with secondary bard skills above GM (Real Skill) receive a slightly reduced mana cost for spell song upkeep. Furthermore, Bards with any mastery get a 5% bonus to their success chance at using any bard skills and a 10% bonus to using the skill of their mastery focus. All bard songs receive a slight bonus to their effects if the bard has additional bard skills over GM (Real Skill). Bard skill timeout is 8 seconds and having a bard mastery reduces all Bard skill timeouts by 1 second with an additional second for the skill of the mastery focus.
Stronger effects are given with more barding skills. If another barding skill is at 100, 110, or 120 you gain an extra 'point'. These will give your spellsongs more power. The tables column "Description" shows the maximum possible effects (4x Legendary Bard):
| Path | Icon | Name | Upkeep Cost | Mana Cost | Minimum Skill | Description |
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| Provocation (Exhilarator) |
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Inspire Uus Por |
5 Upkeep | 16 Mana | 90 Skill | This is a battle hymn interwoven with magical energy. It increases the confidence and focus of party members giving them bonuses to their offensive combat prowess: Hit Chance Increase and Spell Damage Increase by up to 22%, Damage Increase up to 58%, and Bonus Damage Modifier up to 15% which applies to all damage types. |
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Invigorate An Zu |
6 Upkeep | 22 Mana | 90 Skill | This is an invigorating tune interwoven with magical energy. It increases the alertness of party members and makes them feel empowered, giving them bonuses to their stats: Hit Points increase by up to 26, Strength, Intelligence and Dexterity increase by up to 14. All party members healed for up to 19-22 damage every 4 seconds. | |
| Peacemaking (Galvanizer) |
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Resilience Kal Mani Tym |
5 Upkeep | 16 Mana | 90 Skill | This is a song of fortitude interwoven with magical energy. It increases the natural resilience of party members giving them bonuses to regeneration and resistance to detrimental effects: Hit Point Regeneration, Stamina Regeneration and Mana Regeneration increase by up to 22, reduced duration on Curses, Bleed and Mortal Wound. Increased resistance to Poison. |
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Perseverance Uus Jux Sanct |
6 Upkeep | 18 Mana | 90 Skill | This is a song of protection interwoven with magical energy. It envelopes party members in protective magical energy: Defense Chance increase by up to 30%, damage taken reduced by up to 30%, Casting Focus increased by up to 6%. | |
| Discordance (Desponder) |
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Tribulation In Jux Hur Rel |
11 Upkeep | 24 Mana | 90 Skill | This is a bard spellsong which disrupts the target's ability to concentrate, reducing their Hit Chance and Spell Damage (by up to 32). The spell song also has the chance (up to 84%) of causing any damage taken by the target to cause a burst of direct damage proportional (up to 50%) to the damage taken. The amount of direct damage is proportional to the Discordance skill of the bard and the chance for the direct damage to take effect is proportional to the Musicianship skill of the bard. The damage is further increased 1.5 times by the use of Slayer instruments. This spell song is affected by the target's Magic Resistance. |
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Despair Kal Des Mani Tym |
13 Upkeep | 26 Mana | 90 Skill | This is a bard spellsong which will reduce the target's strength(up to 22) and periodically (every 2 seconds) inflict damage on the target (up to 48 against a player character = 14 damage after 70 resist), as long as the target remains in range, and the bard has enough Mana to sustain the effect. The damage inflicted is proportional to the bards Discordance and Musicianship skills and its 1.5 times more for NPCs and 3 times more with Slayer instruments. This spell song is affected by the target's Magic Resistance. The type of damage is selectable through a context menu on your Book of Bard Masteries. |