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THE LAST CAMP

Bard spells are unique on The Last Camp — every Bard "spell" is a song, and songs run on a different cadence than caster magic. Songs pulse every three seconds while you keep the gem socketed, do not drain mana on most lines, and can be twisted (rotated through gems) to layer multiple effects on the same group at once. Era-locked through Planes of Power, the Bard's 117-song book covers movement, mez, charm, group HP/mana regen, debuff, melee buff, and a full set of weapon-skill DPS chants.

Because songs are gem-locked rather than mana-bound, the Bard's effective spell pool is set by the eight gem slots at level 65 and by how many lines you can twist before refresh latency catches up. Mana is mostly cosmetic; a small handful of songs (Solon's Bewitching Bravura, Denon's Desperate Dirge, Call of the Banshee, Anc: Rytan's Dirge of Death) charge real mana, but most lines show a cost.

At a glance

Field Value
Spell role Hybrid utility caster + melee + group support
Spell book size 117 songs (Classic → PoP)
Spell gems available 8 at level 65
Mana pool dependency Low (most songs cost zero mana)
Primary spell categories Movement, mez/charm, group regen, melee buff, weapon-skill DPS, debuff, resists
Signature spells Selo's Accelerando, Cassindra's Chant of Clarity, Composition of Ervaj, Denon's Desperate Dirge
Spell research available No (songs are vendor- and quest-acquired only)

Spell line overview

Movement. The Selo's line (Accelerando → Consonant Chain → Accelerating Chorus → Assonant Strain → Song of Travel) is the iconic Bard run-speed buff. Selo's Song of Travel at 51 grants out-of-combat group SoW + levitate + ultravision in one gem and is a defining group-utility song.

Mez and charm. Kelin's Lugubrious Lament is single-target mez; Kelin's Lucid Lullaby is the AoE "rest" lullaby. The Solon's Song of the Sirens / Solon's Bewitching Bravura line provides charm for kiting or pet-control pulls. Lullaby of Morell at 65 is the late-era group mez.

Group HP/mana regen. Hymn of Restoration → Cantata of Soothing → Cantata of Replenishment → Chorus of Replenishment is the HP regen ladder. Cassindra's Chant of Clarity → Chorus of Clarity is the mana regen line — Bard mana song is the keystone for raid caster sustain.

Melee buff. Anthem de Arms, McVaxius' Berserker Crescendo, McVaxius' Rousing Rondo, Warsong of the Vah Shir, Composition of Ervaj, and Vilia's Verses of Celerity / Chorus of Celerity stack into the Bard "melee twist" that drives group ATK, haste, and damage caps for warriors and rogues.

Weapon-skill DPS chants. Tuyen's Chant of Flame / Frost / Disease / Poison / Ice / Venom / Fire / Plague are the Bard direct-damage line — each song does damage every tick to anything you've targeted via Chords of Dissonance / Denon's Disruptive Discord / Denon's Dissension / Denon's Bereavement, the targeted Bard DPS twist.

Debuff and pulling. Brusco's Boastful Bellow → Brusco's Bombastic Bellow taunts. Lyssa's Locating Lyric / Cataloging Libretto is the Bard tracking song. Selo's Chords of Cessation is the snare song. Largo's Melodic Binding / Assonant Binding slows enemy attack speed.

Disciplines. Resistant Discipline, Fearless Discipline, Deftdance Discipline, and Puretone Discipline are instant-cast self-only buttons that stack on top of song twisting — these are the era's primary Bard "burn" buttons.

Spell list (by tier)

This is the complete canonical Bard spell list available on The Last Camp through Planes of Power. 117 spells total, pulled from the live server database after the P2 class-restriction restoration. Click the Lucy link on any row for full spell data.

Level Spell Mana Cast Time Lucy
1 Chant of Battle 3.0s 🔗
2 Chords of Dissonance 3.0s 🔗
3 Jaxan's Jig o` Vigor 3.0s 🔗
4 Lyssa's Locating Lyric 3.0s 🔗
5 Selo's Accelerando 3.0s 🔗
6 Hymn of Restoration 3.0s 🔗
7 Jonthan's Whistling Warsong 3.0s 🔗
8 Kelin's Lugubrious Lament 3.0s 🔗
9 Elemental Rhythms 3.0s 🔗
9 Magical Monologue 3.0s 🔗
10 Anthem de Arms 3.0s 🔗
11 Cinda's Charismatic Carillon 3.0s 🔗
12 Brusco's Boastful Bellow 3.0s 🔗
13 Purifying Rhythms 3.0s 🔗
14 Lyssa's Cataloging Libretto 3.0s 🔗
15 Kelin's Lucid Lullaby 3.0s 🔗
15 Song of Sustenance 3.0s 🔗
16 Tarew's Aquatic Ayre 3.0s 🔗
17 Guardian Rhythms 3.0s 🔗
18 Denon's Disruptive Discord 3.0s 🔗
19 Shauri's Sonorous Clouding 3.0s 🔗
20 Cassindra's Chant of Clarity 3.0s 🔗
20 Largo's Melodic Binding 3.0s 🔗
21 Melanie's Mellifluous Motion 3.0s 🔗
22 Alenia's Disenchanting Melody 3.0s 🔗
23 Selo's Consonant Chain 3.0s 🔗
24 Lyssa's Veracious Concord 3.0s 🔗
25 Psalm of Warmth 3.0s 🔗
26 Angstlich's Appalling Screech 3.0s 🔗
27 Solon's Song of the Sirens 3.0s 🔗
28 Crission's Pixie Strike 3.0s 🔗
29 Psalm of Vitality 3.0s 🔗
30 Amplification 3.0s 🔗
30 Fufil's Curtailing Chant 3.0s 🔗
31 Agilmente's Aria of Eagles 3.0s 🔗
32 Cassindra's Chorus of Clarity 3.0s 🔗
33 Psalm of Cooling 3.0s 🔗
34 Cantata of Soothing 3.0s 🔗
34 Lyssa's Solidarity of Vision 3.0s 🔗
35 Denon's Dissension 3.0s 🔗
36 Vilia's Verses of Celerity 3.0s 🔗
37 Psalm of Purity 3.0s 🔗
38 Tuyen's Chant of Flame 3.0s 🔗
39 Katta's Song of Sword Dancing 3.0s 🔗
39 Solon's Bewitching Bravura 60 3.0s 🔗
40 Sionachie's Dreams 3.0s 🔗
40 Syvelian's Anti-Magic Aria 3.0s 🔗
41 Psalm of Mystic Shielding 3.0s 🔗
42 McVaxius' Berserker Crescendo 3.0s 🔗
42 Tuyen's Chant of Disease 3.0s 🔗
43 Denon's Desperate Dirge 800 3.0s 🔗
44 Cassindra's Elegy 3.0s 🔗
45 Aria of Asceticism 3.0s 🔗
45 Jonthan's Provocation 3.0s 🔗
46 Tuyen's Chant of Frost 3.0s 🔗
47 Niv's Melody of Preservation 3.0s 🔗
48 Selo's Chords of Cessation 3.0s 🔗
49 Selo's Accelerating Chorus 3.0s 🔗
49 Shield of Songs 3.0s 🔗
50 Melody of Ervaj 3.0s 🔗
50 Tuyen's Chant of Poison 3.0s 🔗
50 Verses of Victory 3.0s 🔗
51 Largo's Assonant Binding 3.0s 🔗
51 Resistant Discipline Instant 🔗
51 Selo's Song of Travel 3.0s 🔗
52 Aria of Innocence 3.0s 🔗
52 Battlecry of the Vah Shir 3.0s 🔗
52 Nillipus' March of the Wee 3.0s 🔗
53 Song of Dawn 3.0s 🔗
53 Song of Twilight 3.0s 🔗
54 Elemental Chorus 3.0s 🔗
54 Fearless Discipline Instant 🔗
54 Selo's Assonant Strain 3.0s 🔗
54 Vilia's Chorus of Celerity 3.0s 🔗
55 Brusco's Bombastic Bellow 3.0s 🔗
55 Cantata of Replenishment 3.0s 🔗
55 Deftdance Discipline Instant 🔗
55 Occlusion of Sound 3.0s 🔗
56 Purifying Chorus 3.0s 🔗
56 Song of Highsun 3.0s 🔗
56 Song of Midnight 3.0s 🔗
57 Cassindra's Insipid Ditty 3.0s 🔗
57 McVaxius' Rousing Rondo 3.0s 🔗
58 Chorus of Replenishment 3.0s 🔗
58 Dreams of Ayonae 3.0s 🔗
58 Jonthan's Inspiration 3.0s 🔗
58 Niv's Harmonic 3.0s 🔗
59 Denon's Bereavement 3.0s 🔗
59 Solon's Charismatic Concord 3.0s 🔗
60 Anc: Rytan's Dirge of Death 100 3.0s 🔗
60 Ancient: Lcea's Lament 3.0s 🔗
60 Ancient: Lullaby of Shadow 3.0s 🔗
60 Angstlich's Assonance 3.0s 🔗
60 Composition of Ervaj 3.0s 🔗
60 Ervaj's Lost Composition 3.0s 🔗
60 Kazumi's Note of Preservation 3.0s 🔗
60 Puretone Discipline Instant 🔗
60 Warsong of the Vah Shir 3.0s 🔗
61 Saryrn's Scream of Pain 3.0s 🔗
61 Silent Song of Quellious 3.0s 🔗
61 Tuyen's Chant of the Plague 3.0s 🔗
62 Dreams of Thule 3.0s 🔗
62 Druzzil's Disillusionment 3.0s 🔗
62 Melody of Mischief 3.0s 🔗
62 Warsong of Zek 3.0s 🔗
62 Wind of Marr 3.0s 🔗
63 Psalm of Veeshan 3.0s 🔗
63 Tuyen's Chant of Ice 3.0s 🔗
63 Tuyen's Chant of Venom 3.0s 🔗
64 Call of the Banshee 90 3.0s 🔗
64 Chorus of Marr 3.0s 🔗
64 Dreams of Terris 3.0s 🔗
64 Requiem of Time 3.0s 🔗
64 Rizlona's Call of Flame 3.0s 🔗
65 Harmony of Sound 3.0s 🔗
65 Lullaby of Morell 3.0s 🔗
65 Tuyen's Chant of Fire 3.0s 🔗

Class-specific quirks

Bard songs require the matching instrument type to reach full effect — wind, string, percussion, or brass. Without the correct instrument equipped, song output drops to base values. Bards switch instruments mid-twist by clicking the appropriate item between gem refreshes, which is one of the most mechanically demanding rhythms in the era. Songs do not crit and do not benefit from focus items the way caster spells do; instead, the era's instrument modifiers and Singing Mastery AAs scale song power.

Songs also pulse on a fixed three-second cadence rather than the spell-system's variable cast time, which is why every entry above lists 3.0s. The exceptions are the four disciplines (Resistant, Fearless, Deftdance, Puretone), which fire instantly and bypass the song system entirely.

The Last Camp any-race-class note

The Last Camp's open race/class system means any race can roll Bard, including races that traditionally couldn't (Iksar, Vah Shir, Froglok, Ogre, Troll, Dwarf, Gnome, Erudite, Drakkin). The song list itself doesn't change — every Bard learns the same 117 songs — but starting attributes shift the feel. An Ogre Bard gets Ogre HP and frontal-stun immunity layered onto the song twist. An Iksar Bard gets Iksar regen and AC bonus. Vah Shir Bards remain canonically optimal for the Battlecry of the Vah Shir / Warsong of the Vah Shir flavor lines but no longer have a stat monopoly on the role.

Spell vendors

Bard songs are sold by class trainers in every starting city up through roughly level 50, then transition to PoK Bard vendors and zone-specific song vendors (Plane of Knowledge guild hall area, plus PoP-zone trainers) for 51 through 60. Levels 61 through 65 songs primarily come from quests and rare drops in PoP raid zones rather than vendors, in line with TAKP-era acquisition.

Scribing notes

Each song must be scribed from a tome before it can be socketed. Right-click the tome with the Bard at or above the song's required level. Scribing consumes the tome and adds the song to the spellbook permanently. Songs do not auto-learn on level-up — every song requires either a vendor purchase or a quest reward turn-in. Plan your trainer visits at 9, 15, 22, 30, 39, 49, and every level from 51 to 65.

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