Bard

The Bard supports and controls the battlefield through art — Arcane magic expressed as music, song and performance rather than spellbooks or gravitas.

Overview

Role	Support / Control
Difficulty	⭐⭐ Medium
Magic source	Arcane (expressed through music)
Main weapons	Staff
Starting equipment	Purple linen robes

Playstyle

The Bard's magic flows through art rather than raw study: its identity is built around song-casting for support and crowd control. Its stat curve is a balanced support-caster's — moderate health and energy, with good evasion to help it stay alive while it works the edges of a fight rather than the front line.

Unlike the other three classes covered here, the Bard already has a real, shipped signature mechanic: Battle Refrain, which lets it play music while attacking or casting in combat, layering its performance directly onto its actions rather than pausing to do one or the other. There are already 22 playable instruments in the game to choose from, giving the Bard's musical identity more depth today than its still-empty skill tree.

The Bard currently starts with a staff as a placeholder weapon — a proper instrument weapon is planned for a future update — and its starting robes are shared with the Mage for now.

Current Status

The Bard is fully playable today — selectable at character creation with its own identity and stats, plus the shipped Battle Refrain mechanic and its 22 instruments. Its dedicated skill tree, however, is still empty and in active development, so beyond Battle Refrain it currently plays on its base kit without specialized abilities layered on top.

Tips

• Battle Refrain lets you keep playing music mid-fight — don't treat performance and combat as separate phases, they're meant to overlap.
• With 22 instruments already playable, experiment early to find the one that fits your preferred playstyle before the dedicated skill tree arrives.
• Good evasion and moderate health make the Bard forgiving for a caster, but it's still not a frontline class — work from the edges of the fight.