Tanshortys Bard Guide

Welcome!
Remember that this is only a guide to how to make the most of your job as a Bard. Never read the guides provided as a set way to play Bard, it is purely a personal job and takes development and understanding to play it to the best of your abilities. Take time to develop your own personal style.

What is the role of the Bard? A Bard uses the power of music to buff their party with various stat bonuses or even haste and refresh and debuff mobs so they are easier to kill. How? There is Job Specific Equipment (JSE) for bard right from level 1 via instruments. Each instrument has varying stats to boost specific songs. With an instument equiped in the ranged slot we can put two songs on to the party but /BRD or no instrument equiped means we can only apply one song.

How to unlock Bard
Ok, this quest is real easy if you know where your going and what to do. To start this quest you must have a job levelled to 30, as all jobs need level 30 to start their opening quests then you will definately need to have one of the six starting jobs levelled to 30. I suggest obtaining a buffer into your level before attempting any quest just in case you die with no raise around but with Fields of Valor now just get Reraise for 10 tabs when you can.

Unlocking this job is seperated into 3 quests but both are real easy. To flag the opening quest The Old Monument you need to speak to Mertaire who can be found in the Merry Minstrel Tavern in Lower Jeuno. Luckily for us Bki Tbujhja knows how we can help poor Mertaire. Once you have talked to both of these head to Buburimu Peninsula but DO NOT forget your Parchment which can easily be bought of the Auction House. Head to the beach in Buburimu Peninsula that is to the east on the map and on the east hand side there is a tunnel leading you onto another beach where the Song Runes are. Click the song runes for a cutscene. After the cutscene your quest log will change to A Minstrel in Despair and you can trade the parchment you have to the song runes and get a poetic parchment in return. Return to the Merry Minstrel Tavern and trade the poetic parchment to Mertaire for another cutscene. Ok 2/3 done, nearly there now!

The Parh of the Bard, the final quest. Talk to Bki Tbujhja again who will tell you of song runes in Valkurm Dunes. Head to the secret (or not so secret anymore) beach in the dunes and select the song runes there for yet another cutscene.

Congratulations! You have just unlocked Bard.

Bard
Bard is a real quick job to level because parties just love you. Especially when you get Mage's Ballad at level 25 and Advancing March at level 29 which are refresh and haste respectively. To level Bard you need to do some research into your own job and other jobs as well to understand how to play this job class well. I will explain how songs effect different jobs and what to eat and wear to make you better.