Bard Class Concept 2025

[Ielenia]

According to Blizzard, Demon Hunters were always planned to be implemented.

Obviously, plans changed when the Wrath of the Lich King expansion came along and warlocks got the metamorphosis ability.

The class also uses their weapon as instrument to play songs and musical magic.

Like a bard.

No, not like a bard at all, because bards don't use their instruments as weapons or vice-versa, much like paladins don't use their librams to bash people in the head.

Bards most decisively do not use their instruments to physically attack people. Their instruments are used to play music/songs, and their weapons are used to attack, and those are separate items.

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TBF, that poll was quite a few years ago. Quite a lot has changed since that thread was made.

Feel free to make another one, then, if you believe the results would be different this time around.

[Nightshade711]

Feel free to make another one, then, if you believe the results would be different this time around.

He won’t because he knows the results won’t align with his narrative tbh.

[Teriz]

Hero talents added to the OP:

Hero Talents



Band Manager (Tank/Healing)


Your special abilities have a chance to summon band members from the ETC or the Blight Boars to assist you in battle.

Coda (Passive)
Your melee abilities have a chance to summon Samuro. While Samuro is active, your next Six String Samurai/Radiant Slash is critical and doesn't incur its cooldown.

Grave Tempo (Passive)
Your special melee attacks has a chance to summon Jon Graves who generates a Power Chord. Targets hit by a Power Chord have their
minds blown, increasing damage taken by 10% for X seconds.

Backbeat (Passive)
When performing a Riff, Fiddlesticks and Chief Thunderskins have a chance to appear and increase the speed of your Riff gauge by 25% and reduces the cooldown of that
Riff ability by 25%.

Crowd Surfer (Tank/DPS)


Greatly enhances your Powerslide and Stage Dive abilities, improving their power, mobility, and utility.

Crowd Pleaser: (Passive)
Stage Dive gets a second charge, and its area of effect damage is increased by X%.

Pinball Wizard: (Passive)
Your Facemelter and Rocknado abilities deal Critical damage to targets you've Powerslided through. If more than two targets are critically hit, reset cooldown on Powerslide.

Showstopper: (Passive)
Powerslide's duration is increased, and you can now control its direction.

Radiant Amplifier (Healing/DPS)

Amplifies the power of Facemelter and Radiant Slash, allowing them to send radiant sound waves throughout the field, greatly enhancing their range and power.

Radiant Waves: (Active) (25yds)
Strum your instrument, sending out a sonic wave of radiant healing/damage in a cone in front of you. When it hits an ally/enemy, the ally/enemy will be healed/damaged and the wave will bounce 10 yards before dissipating. If another ally/enemy is hit by the wave, they will be healed/damaged for a lesser amount, and the wave will bounce another 5 yards before dissipating.

Burn-In (Passive)
Damage from Radiant Waves, Facemelter, and Radiant Slash deal additional radiant damage/healing over 6 seconds.

Amplification: (Passive)
Every target hit by your Radiant Wave increases the power and range of your next Facemelter and Radiant Slash by 10%.


Thank you all for your continued contributions to the thread.

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He won’t because he knows the results won’t align with his narrative tbh.

I won’t because another Bard thread would be considered spam.

[Nightshade711]

I won’t because another Bard thread would be considered spam.

Uh-huh.
Didn’t stop you from making all those Dracthyr/Evoker threads.

[username993720]

Hero talents added to the OP:



Thank you all for your continued contributions to the thread.

You can't really take these names seriously.

[Teriz]

Uh-huh.
Didn’t stop you from making all those Dracthyr/Evoker threads.

I made those threads three years apart.

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You can't really take these names seriously.

Bard in of itself isn’t a serious concept. It’s meant to be whimsical.

[username993720]

Bard in of itself isn’t a serious concept. It’s meant to be whimsical.

So, don't implement a non-serious class.
Leave that silliness to Hearthstone and HotS.

[Teriz]

So, don't implement a non-serious class.
Leave that silliness to Hearthstone and HotS.

That's your opinion. There are players out there who are perfectly fine with whimsical classes as long as they're fun to play. Again, not every class is made for every player, and not every class is going to appeal to you. You may not enjoy a whimsical Bard, but another player will.

[username993720]

That's your opinion. There are players out there who are perfectly fine with whimsical classes as long as they're fun to play. Again, not every class is made for every player, and not every class is going to appeal to you. You may not enjoy a whimsical Bard, but another player will.

Look at the classes we have. Are any of them not serious?

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Bard in of itself isn’t a serious concept. It’s meant to be whimsical.

People play bards whimsically but there class design isn’t tongue in cheek.

Current 5e sub classes are,
College of Creation (TCoE)
College of Eloquence (MOoT / TCoE)
College of Glamour (XGtE)
College of Lore (PHB)
College of Spirits (VRGtR)
College of Swords (XGtE)
College of Valor (PHB)
College of Whispers (XGtE)

[Teriz]

People play bards whimsically but there class design isn’t tongue in cheek.

LoL! Okay.

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Look at the classes we have. Are any of them not serious?

Yeah, the Monk class is inherently goofy and absurd.

And frankly, that's part of its appeal.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

LoL! Okay.
.

A random picture has no baring on the fact that bards class design is just as serious as any other and they aren’t using whimsical names for it.

[Teriz]

A random picture has no baring on the fact that bards class design is just as serious as any other and they aren’t using whimsical names for it.

It's a picture of a Bard from 5e.

I'm not seeing how that's any more serious than WoW getting a rocker style bard.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

It's a picture of a Bard from 5e.

I'm not seeing how that's any more serious than WoW getting a rocker style bard.

This is the art on the D&D bard page.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/classes/1-...y9w4uQLmq3MkEY

What you linked is a magic the gathering card.

https://scryfall.com/card/afr/210/wandering-troubadour

[Teriz]

This is the art on the D&D bard page.[/url]

What you linked is a magic the gathering card.

Would you prefer this? It's just as silly.

[username993720]

Yeah, the Monk class is inherently goofy and absurd.

And frankly, that's part of its appeal.

Goofy?
What's goofy about a kung fu martial artist?

[meroes]

Goofy?
What's goofy about a kung fu martial artist?

Doing exaggerated kung fu with distended bellies isn’t goofy?

[Teriz]

Goofy?
What's goofy about a kung fu martial artist?

Really?

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Would you prefer this? It's just as silly.

I prefer the official art they use on there page and not YouTube thumb nails based on third party character sheet holders.

https://ultrapro.com/products/bard-c...AMFv_zbBgZhbwK

[Teriz]

I prefer the official art they use on there page and not YouTube thumb nails based on third party character sheet holders.

It's the same image though.