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Bard Achievement Points Tree
Strength |
Agility |
Stamina |
Wisdom |
Intelligence |
| Turnstrike - A melee attack that briefly renders the Bladesinger immune to area effect attacks unless they are the direct target of that effect | Bump - A positional melee attack that shoves your target and places the Wayfarer into stealth. If your target is humanoid, you have a chance to pickpocket them | Round Bash - A roundshield attack that knocks down the target if it hits | Messenger's Letter - A ranged bow attack that increases the enemy's hate towards their current target | Rhythm Blade - A melee attack that grants an increase in combat skills, focus, and casting techniques for a short duration if it hits |
| Bladeturn - The Bladesinger's group songs that increase avoidance skills have their values increased | Wayfarer's Watch - Increases the Wayfarer's parry skill and grants a chance at avoiding non-direct area effects | Skald's Defense - Increases the Skald's blocking ability and double attack chance while roundshield is equipped | Harbinger's Sonnet - Increases the movement speed of Selo's Accelerando and its upgrades. It also adds an in-combat movement increase | Minstrel's Aria - The Minstrel's songs that increase group combat skills or casting technique have their values increased |
| Bladesing - The Bladesinger's group songs that increase attributes have their values increased | Poison Concoction - Applies a homemade poison on the Wayfarer's weapons, granting a chance to cause poison damage over-time on a successful hit | Fortissimo - Increases your group's chance at striking twice with each auto attack | Allegro - Increases the casting speed of the Harbinger's group | Minstrel's Melody - The Minstrel's passive songs that increase group attack speed or damage per second have their values increased |
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Bladedance - For a short duration, the Bladesinger's group is protected against area effect abilities that do not directly target them. |
Vanishing Act - Instantly places the Wayfarer's group into stealth for a short duration. The next non-combat art melee attack made against an ally will be avoided. Vanishing Act can be used while in combat | Lend Shielding - Your shield blocks the next incoming melee attack against an ally or yourself | Don't Kill the Messenger - The Harbinger's group gains critical percent chances for melee, ranged, spells, and heals | Heroic Storytelling - Any heroic opportunities completed by the Minstrel's group are more effective than normal |
Shadows Advancement Abilities
These abilities are available once the specified amount of points have been
distributed to the Shadows General and Scout lines.
| Defensive Ballad | Improves the skill bonuses found on the Graceful Avoidance and Jael's Mysterious Mettle line of defensive songs. |
| Shrieking Cry | Improves the damage done by the Perfect Shrill and Luda's Nefarious Wail line of spells. Also grants them an additional chance to inflict critical damage. |
| Flanking Chorus | Improves the damage done by the bard's flank attack. Also grants them an additional chance to inflict critical damage. |
| Selo's Rousing Concerto | Grants additional movement speed bonuses to Selo's Accelerando. |
| Chorus of Reflection | Improves the damage done by the bard's Daelis' Dance of Blades and Death's Door line of spells. |
| Intoxicating Notes | Grants the bard a low damage proc which triggers off of melee based attacks. |
| Dexterous Sonata | A song which buffs the group's ability to do additional critical damage from spells, heals, combat arts and weapon attacks. |
Sentinel's Fate Advancement Abilities
These abilities are only available for players with the Sentinel's Fate
expansion that are over level 81.
| Improved Reflexes | Reduces the recast time of Bladedance. |
| Stealthy Ambush | Increases the base damage of Bump and reduces the recast. |
| Song of Shielding | Grants the bard a chance to avoid an attack for the target of the spell. This does not stack with similar spells granted through Alternate Advancements. |
| Swift Voices | Allegro will also grant recovery time to the group. |
| Precise Blades | Rhythm Blade gains an additional component which increases the bard's accuracy and reduces the chance a spell can be resisted. |
| Rhythmic Overture | Monitors the bard's damage on the target over a short duration. Once the overture has been completed, the bard may cast Victorious Concerto which adds a portion of that damage as an additional effect to the group. Additional ranks improve the damage amount. |
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