New Weapon Design Choices for Bards

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Originally Posted by MicahZerrshia

Before we supply bard with more instruments I think they should start by making bard more bard and less ranger. A few more songs, more songs you don't get penalized for using, ability to grand your tank song A and your healers song B (like they were able to in version 1) and so on.

With only 3 real songs (4 if you want to count swiftsong but since that are archer ability I don't) there is no need for more than 1 instrument, more varied bows with less instrumental looks would be far better imo.

Bard as it is now is nothing more than a ranger who hums.

I doubt they'll add more songs :/
By essence Bard was supposed to be a buffer but with AST.....he became, like you said, a ranger. Excepct for a song that would lesser physical resistance (like the magic we have) I can't think of buff that would not impact AST's gameplay considering he is now the buffer :/

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Originally Posted by Arutan

There's not much instrument that can be added to a bow. Harp is the more effective because it just need string, anything else would be to heavy to use as a bow.

Please meet (BRD 50+ quests)

http://68.media.tumblr.com/6e63af1b1...rzbo1_1280.png
Guydelot, another fellow BRD

As you can see, BRD do no use their bows as harp, even when you sing a song in combat, you put your bow aside and take a harp out of....out of where excaclty ? ^^"
Plus, beside the 50 relic, I've never seen a bow with a harp as part of it (and even here, you don't use that part but take a real harp xD)