Lost Ark has a wide variety of builds because every class has many subclasses and each of them has builds for different situations. For example, you can find levelling builds, raiding builds, PvP builds, etc. In this post, we will describe one of the most popular Lost Ark Bard Raid build.
Virtuosos of the Liane harp, bards can evoke soothing serenades to heal their team—or unleash a chorus of pain on their unfortunate foes. Their attack power is rather low, but their ability to support allies makes them a harmonious part of any team. In the right column, you can see the list of links that will help you quickly navigate through the Lost Ark Bard Build.
Skills
There are five main abilities in Lost Ark that you can develop the way you like. Below you can see skills with the best fitting tripods and runes. We present the build in a cheatsheet view and afterwards explain each of the skills.
Skill – Tripods – Rune
Symphonia
Awakening Skill
Sound Shock
Skill Level 10
Wind of Music
Skill Level 10
Sonic Vibration
Skill Level 10
Soundholic
Skill Level 10
Prelude of Storm
Skill Level 10
Heavenly Tune
Skill Level 10
Harp of Rhythm
Skill Level 10
Guardian Tune
Skill Level 10
Engravings
Engravings in Lost Ark are special effects that can be found on Accessories and Ability Stones. There are Normal Engravings and Negative Engravings. These effects modify certain abilities or characteristics of a character such as improving Ambush Damage, Max MP or in the case of Negative Engravings, reducing your Attack Speed. There are also Class Engravings which modify Class-specific abilities and traits and in some cases, drastically change the way a Class plays. This page covers information on Engravings including Point Activation, Custom Engravings and more.
Recommended:
Awakening
Desperate Salvation
Advanced:
Heavy Armor Equipment
Expert
Increased Max MP
Above you can see the recommended and advanced Engravings for Lost Ark Bard Build.
Gear Set
Like in any game in Lost Ark your builds are enhanced by your gear. Depending on the usable main skill you will need to set priorities to collect the items. There are also sets that have additional bonuses and they are much more effective for any build.
Stats Priority: Swiftness and Specialization
- Tier 1:
- Seraphic Oath
- Boisterous Elemental
- Tier 2:
- Marvelous Earth
- Unyielding Will
- Tier 3:
- Twisted Dimensional
- Argos Set:
- Harsh Oath
- Legion Raid Set:
- Demon Beast Strength
- Swamp of Yearning
Above you can see the gears and sets which are most effective for Lost Ark Bard Build.
Gems
Gems are a part of the system that will help you increase your damage or lower cooldowns.
Attack Gems:
Cooldown Gems:
Above there is the list of the appropriate gems for Lost Ark Bard Build.
Card Set
The card set is the part of the endgame gameplay where you will unlock advanced ways to make your build stronger.
Best Card Set:
Field Boss II (Maneth, Tarsila, Sol Grande, Brealeos, Aporas, Kagros, Adrinne)
2 Set Bonus: Max HP +4.00%
4 Set Bonus: Max HP +4.00%
6 Set Bonus: Max HP +4.00%
Farewell, Weapon (Vanquisher, Velcruze, Parkunas, Spear of Annihilation, Fjorgin, Navinos)
2 Set Bonus: Max HP +4.00%
4 Set Bonus: Max HP +4.00%
6 Set Bonus: Max HP +4.00%
Optimal Card Set:
We’ll Meet Again (Madnick, Vrad, Sian)
3 Set Bonus: Damage -12% from foes at 50% or lower HP
3 Set Bonus(9 piece Awakening): Damage -16% from foes at 50% or lower HP
3 Set Bonus(15 piece Awakening): Quickly restores your HP for 5s when attacked while HP is below 20% (Cooldown: 10m)
Forest of Giants (Caspiel, Mokamoka, Tir)
3 Set Bonus: +15% effectiveness of recovery items
3 Set Bonus(9 piece Awakening): Phy. Defense +10.00%, Mag. Defense +10.00%
3 Set Bonus(15 piece Awakening): Phy. Defense +20.00%, Mag. Defense +20.00%
You can see the most effective card sets for the Bard build above.
The build that we have described above is one of the most effective Bard builds for raiding. If you have other purposes you will need to find another build to play Bard in Lost Ark.