5 TIPS To INSTANTLY Improve As BARD - DARK AND DARKER

[@xRustySpoon]

Just a small point of correction - the buff duration of songs mentioned around 6:30 is indeed affected by resourcefulness (aka persuasiveness,) but you said it doesn't affect teammates, which is incorrect. The outgoing song duration is determined by the bard's persuasiveness stat, which is then further multiplied by the buff/debuff duration of the person receiving the effect of the song. As an example, Rousing Rhythms last 90 seconds by default, which at base is 15 Resourcefulness. If the bard playing the song increased their resourcefulness stat to 30, the song duration would double in length to 180 seconds, which would make the buff last 180 seconds for both himself and his teammates. That 180 second duration is then modified further by any percentage increases or decreases to each player's individual buff duration stat.

[@itsjenks]

I had no idea! Thank you for correcting me on that. I pinned your comment so hopefully people will read this so they aren’t misled. I appreciate you Mr Spoon 😁

[@Monkeygaming3678]

Nice to know this actually but rustyspoon how long has salad fingers been hunting you 👀

[@ApatheticState3130]

Probably one of the more helpful and least spastic videos on starting Bard. Much appreciated.

[@itsjenks]

Happy to help 🙏🏻 I haven’t posted a new vid in forever but I’m gonna start again with this new wipe coming up, so stay tuned

[@Mr_Pharenheit]

Today is 9/11 and you said you were in fire academy, so I wanted to say thank you for your service, and thank you for the video. ✌️

[@ncarnut]

and congrats on working to be a firefighter, a hero in and out of the dungeon

[@itsjenks]

@@ncarnut I appreciate that my bruva 🖤

[@cameronroberts4296]

After making a bard and watching this i can say this helped me be the bard ever.

[@itsjenks]

@@cameronroberts4296 that’s all I ever wanted. Glad to be of service

[@cajplays1236]

Dude your content quality is way greater than your sub count would seemingly suggest. Keep up the good work! I hope you hit the algorithm soon!

[@itsjenks]

I really appreciate that homie! That is the goal 🙏🏻

[@buppy098]

It was very honorable of you to ask nicely for the 1v1, great video ty

[@itsjenks]

@@buppy098 aye I appreciate that homie 🙏🏻 we love honor round these parts

[@codycaldwell98]

had me at sea shanty as the intro ill be subbing simply from that :D

[@itsjenks]

@@codycaldwell98 AYE! Thank you homie 🙏🏻 I’ll be streaming today if you want to chill

[@LuhKilla_]

your def getting a sub from me your humor is awesome and content isn't super long and carried out like other dark n darker creators

[@itsjenks]

That means the world to me fam, I appreciate that 🙏🏻 I stream on Saturdays if you ever wanna chill

[@preuomo]

6 year FF in the FDNY. Good luck and keep fit brother!

[@jradplays3904]

yea thats an easy sub, recently became a bard main. for those curious about the class, its is 100% one of the best support classes if not the best, it has viability for solo as well. Shriek of weakness makes is probably the best class for ALL pve scenarios, and for PVP it is dependent on your game knowledge and skill level. The Music seems really complicated, for music layout I highly Recommend looking up Vinidiction's guide on YT. Music seems like a hassle opposed to just charging with W key or left click, but keep practicing, you will build the muscle memory and coordination to play a mini game midst battle.

[@itsjenks]

@@jradplays3904 W comment 🔥 also THANK YOU man I appreciate the love!

[@nighytdnd]

thanks for the tips i really needed the info on resourcefulness and what to run

[@itsjenks]

@@nighytdnd of course homie! Glad I could help 🫡

[@Luke-mu5mq]

Great guide! I love the idea of the bard but the learning curve is super high.

[@itsjenks]

@@Luke-mu5mq thanks man! it is super high, but worth because bard is so versatile. Once you get muscle memory down though it becomes second nature. I would literally walk around and just play music back to back till I got comfortable. Thanks for watching my stuff 🙏🏻

[@Jordan-op3rb]

great video, all id add as a bard main is; falchion can be great if you run jolly time and do an ale focused build instead of using rapier mastery (also stack phys heal) +3 will and knowledge aura is pretty good for low gear teams if your team needs those stats buffed and crossbow is strong in duos and trios but surv bow is required for solos

[@itsjenks]

@@Jordan-op3rb fantastic tips and I 100% agree. Thanks for watching homie!

[@ncarnut]

great video, I will have to try this out with bard always skipped bard because the song aspects seemed like too much to learn!

[@itsjenks]

Def worth a try my friend

[@RNOmemphis]

leaving that sneeze in was funny ash

[@itsjenks]

@@RNOmemphis gotta keep it light u feel me

[@tumuskurns]

Sickk video bruv. I 2nd the Dungeonborne suggestion. It’s prettyy fun

[@itsjenks]

@@tumuskurns appreciate you my homie I will be checking out the dungeon borns

[@Screen-Peeks]

Thanks for this video! Loving your channel! Insta subbed

[@itsjenks]

Yo! Thanks so much! That means a ton 🙏🏻

[@leodoesit]

bless u sir

[@itsjenks]

i gotchu my homie

[@itsjenks]

I am a stinky boy and finally put the chapters in the video like I said I would an entire month later. My apologies. Am going to grind for troll pelts now THANK YOU

[@erglis1145]

Bless you

[@itsjenks]

@@erglis1145 I gotchu homie 🫡

[@SpookyRay903]

Gracias mi amigo!

[@itsjenks]

@@SpookyRay903 de nada!

[@Mazzolium]

Gotta try rondel bard with 45%+ PDR. It’s insane. Get a buckler with armor rating and you can get close to 60. Nearly unkillable in melee especially if you get shriek off.

[@itsjenks]

@@Mazzolium that sounds sick actually. Will def be trying this out

[@taisleng]

"I'll make chapters in the video" LIE LIE LIE LIE

[@itsjenks]

@@taisleng IM SORRY I FORGOT LOL. PUTTING THEM IN ASAP

[@itsjenks]

1 month later. CHAPTERS IN DESCRIP

[@rockosdyingwish8115]

Is the background music from RuneScape?

[@itsjenks]

Yessirrrrr the classic!

[@Nopenotme97]

@@itsjenksdo you play osrs still? I’m cracked at osrs and a total noob at this game 😂 maybe we can trade knowledge lmao

[@itsjenks]

@@Nopenotme97 I am a complete noob at osrs (played on and off but never fully dived in) but loved the soundtrack growing up. Happy to give you some knowledge in this game tho 😂

[@Nopenotme97]

@@itsjenks cool I’ll come check out a stream sometime. If you ever wanna get back into osrs I have a maxed acc and a clan full of people that’ll teach raids / bosses and stuff. I get it tho that games a commitment and a half lol.

[@itsjenks]

@@Nopenotme97 oh word! Yeah man if I ever get the urge I’ll know who to hit up. And yeah dope, I stream on Saturdays starting around 10 / 10:30am EST if you ever wanna hang ✌🏻

[@LittleGameDev]

I’ve just picked up bard, I love playing it but I find myself getting a tad frustrated with my friends. We go into a battle with a monster and they get a bit mad with me for playing the music to buff them/de-buff enemies. They want me to fight with them to finish off the enemies. But I find myself stuck with so much damaged stacked on me and my team then we are all low on hp. So I don’t know if I should be up right there in the fights or if I should be buffing and de-buffing people/enemies. I have to juggle so much as a bard, all my Instruments, the buffs/de-buffs, then fighting PVP or PvM, while also trying to loot and keep my team alive. I’m not sure if I’m going about this the wrong way so any advice would be good. I also don’t know what to run on bard. I got some stuff saved but my team and I always go in with gear score 6 or 20 so the mobs arnt too hard but then we run into people.

[@itsjenks]

@@LittleGameDev yo man, thanks for the comment I appreciate you 🙌 Bard is super op because of buffs and debuffs, but it can be challenging having to micro manage all that. If you know you’re about to fight and you can get buffs off effectively, I definitely would, then try and get some debuffs off when you push or vice versa. Bard is also great because you can play offensive just as well as defensive. Like you can get in the mix and fight with your boys or just play support and get buffs / debuffs off and use the surv bow to take pot shots. I would say bard also generally works super well with any type of team comp. You’re playing it right sounds like, just takes a ton of practice to get used to juggling all that. Make sure you have the perk that lets you switch between instruments and your weapons really fast so you can get buffs / debuffs off fast in mid combat. I personally like stacking dex on a bard because you play songs so fast, and swing your weapon super quick too, which means you get more damage off. High PDR bard with rondel and buckler or lantern shield is also very viable. High pdr and a successful shriek will pretty much guarantee you’re winning a damage check. Hope this helps man 🙏🏻

[@Neverendingzen]

Let me tell you why, bard can be good but ppl do not like how this video has it set up. As a bard main since the play tests I wanna say without a doubt it you are slowing move speed with lament, and using banshee, your teammates will be fighting a 2v3 in most cases so don't even bring em. Use war song and not fermata, use less minor buffs and debuffs as I've mentioned. This guy is someone who wants to do less music playing but more at the same time. Full support and teammate shining type kit in this vid and tbh your teammates will hate you for it.

[@itsjenks]

@@Neverendingzen lament is great for solo tho, and free on a base kit if you have your mem set up properly. I hardly use banshee, just noting how busted it is if you can successfully get it off why not. If not, obv just shriek and go ham. Team play you can still be a good support bard and go in for big damage. You can turn the tide with buffs on ur team, especially with shriek, just don’t make it your sole objective to only buff and debuff the entire time. Obv get in the mix once you’ve properly buffed and debuffed, IF you have good spacing for it. Although I can appreciate your play style, and thank u for the comments / advice 👍🏻

[@Neverendingzen]

@@itsjenks I agree entirely there

[@mob_boiii]

runescape music 🔥

[@itsjenks]

@@mob_boiii a classic 🫡

[@Greatest_Lump]

What do you think about the perk "War Song" tho?

[@itsjenks]

@@Greatest_Lump war song is awesome. If you don’t mind playing songs more frequently you could drop fermata and run both rapier mastery AND war song which is sick. or if you like fermata you could drop rapier mastery. High end gear is diff of course, I would drop fermata at that point

[@NielsGustafsson.]

Thx

[@itsjenks]

Ur welcome papa

[@Neverendingzen]

Take my advice as someone who disarms all the bard haters and refuses to main anything else personally....don't be the buffball bard, keep yourself with a mind that you will fight as you play and not play more to fight less. Lament, and Banshee are not recommended....you'll be in there playing music in a fight constantly anyway. Bring war song and NOT fermata. Rip them songs king, if you're playing bard you're nerfing him by making yourself do the class job less js.... Get use to ripping those things FLAWLESSLY and avoid being the "I'll help my teammates with songs more than fighting" guy. No lament, no banshee. Bring war song instead of fermata. The passive and soft approach to bard is why ppl joke on my fav class. It can be nasty and aggressive as equally and a menace to deal with in turn.

[@itsjenks]

Super valid take. Love this. One of the reasons I love bard is because of the versatility. I’ll def try this build out 🙏🏻

[@nathanlam9253]

sea shanty 2 mentioned

[@itsjenks]

A classic

[@ncarnut]

Also have you heard of light and lighter aka Dungeonborne?!

[@itsjenks]

@@ncarnut I have seen a few comments about that game, it’s on my list to check out 👀

[@mysterycolors7617]

total crap

[@itsjenks]

@@mysterycolors7617 hey good to know 😂

[@James-xb2yj]

the osrs music the whole video....

[@itsjenks]

@@James-xb2yj lol too much? 😂

[@Little_Abombintaion]

If a deaf person is in an interrogation, how do they speak if they are hand cuffed 🙂

[@itsjenks]

@@Little_Abombintaion how?? 😂

[@Little_Abombintaion]

@@itsjenks I dunno, telepathy???

[@itsjenks]

I was thinking sign language with their feet. But I like telepathy better

[@Little_Abombintaion]

@@itsjenks respectfully wtf

[@creepyoutdoors4451]

I have played every class so far I have 2,000 hours in the game at least a thousand hours on cleric which in my opinion was a huge mistake because of how freaking brain dead the class is out of all of them bard the only one I can officially say I don't f****** get it I don't get it I shoot people with the the survival bow 6 to 8 times and then I shrieked them I blocked the first hit I hit hit and I still die Rogue feels better to play and that's kind of a hot take

[@Kuujis]

you said you'd make chapters, you didn't :(

[@itsjenks]

HAHAHA I completely forgot about that. Will make them tonight. Thanks for catching that 😂

[@VeryJUICED]

@@itsjenkscap😂

[@itsjenks]

@@VeryJUICED ight I FINALLY did it lmao

[@BigSchmitt1989]

You can tell from his spell memory priority that he's a bit of a clown bard

[@itsjenks]

@@BigSchmitt1989 how so?

[@BigSchmitt1989]

@itsjenks lutes boost knowledge, should go last. aria of Alacrity is way too far up in priority, it's wasting knowledge

[@itsjenks]

@@BigSchmitt1989 oh word. Good to know. Thanks man!

[@FireRevontulet]

I hate that in order to be more effective you have to actually play bad music -.-

[@itsjenks]

@@FireRevontulet don’t think of it like that! Think of it like, you’re so good at playing music that even when you skip notes it still sounds good 😂

[@FireRevontulet]

@@itsjenks lol, besides it doesn't T_T I play instruments myself and music is a big part of my life, when I hear a bard playing like that it just strikes a nerve

[@flyingcal4506]

Class is dumb. It needs more nerfs

[@itsjenks]

What needs nerfing exactly? I feel bard is in a good spot actually, I’m curious what you’re thinking