Hi guys, Goldicq, welcome to here. Today, Let me introduce opinion on STR Bard in Silkroad to you, hope you like it.

The benefit, of course, is the tanking ability, though not as close as a warrior's(need enough Silk Road Gold), or simply put it: Survivability. But then again, why would you still worry about surviving, when you're buffed up and protected by both tankers and healers in a working party? Well, with survivability comes two notable benefits:

Will STR Bards work? This is from what you saw before everyday in Venus. We have many STR builds with Bard as a sub. They are doing ok in a party. The only downside is they are struggling for MP themselves and the MP they heal is not as good as INT Bard. Even though the skill show weapon reflect, it actually refers to your magical attacks reflect. But they manage to heal most of the INTs in party. You have no problem having STR Bards in party as you know they can do their job. Just give them INT buff from cleric and they are fine. The good thing about STR Bard as a sub in Venus is they have all the good skills too and it is up-to-date with their current levels(Silk Road Gold). So we can expect high tambours, speed they still lacking on this and especially Dance of Magic.

You will ease off the work of tankers and healers(Silk Road Gold). Instead of giving you fences, the warrior can just give it to someone else–another pure INT damage dealer perhaps. The clerics need not worry about you too–well, not as much as other support builds. Mana Wind or Mana Breeze can be usedwithout hesitation. Even if it increases your aggro, dying from getting mobbed is lessen. First of all, in a good funtional working party there would be 2 tanks, 1 cleric, 1 Bard and 4 wizards or it can be 3 wizards and another bard or 3 wizards and a warlock. Out of that party, the cleric and 3 of the wizards will get buffed by thetanks. So, it will leave 1 wizard and 1 Bard without a warrior's buffs. Either the wizard share the buffs from one of the tanks or just go without warrior's buffs and without Life Turnover.

You need to stress this out again, a good Bard is a Bard that always get ignored by the mobs. You have noise skill. You have the speed. You will get ignored by mobs, you wont need any warrior's buffs. Bards don't need any buffs except the free buffs from cleric to do his job. Because we rarely get hit, if you want to use Mana Breeze or Wind, just move to a spot where not many mobs around. The range from that skill is good enough to get it to work. So tanking ability is not needed because in a party Bards usually become the last person standing if the party got run over by mobs or cleric dced. This is frommy actual experience.