[The Brand New Bard Class] Player Designed

SprigusK

Allow me to first start of by saying hello to all the Forgotten Bards of Tamriel. I've noticed a lot of Elder Scrolls games have bards. But not in a functional player controlled way. Because of this, I have decided to share my opinion and gather the opinions of others for this. Now just a heads up, this is just a rough draft of my opinion so feel free to share feedback and contribute to the idea.

Let's just start off with my point. A playable Bard Class.
The three skill lines would be as follows;
- Songs/Singing (Healing, Buffing and De-buffing Line)
- Dances (The Damage Line)
- Instruments/Music (The Tank Line)

The idea would be to incorporate music and story telling into a playable class. Now I know the anarchist class just came out. Also that they probably wont be thinking of adding a new class for maybe a decade. But who knows? Maybe they would see this post and push something through. Just some ideas of what could come with the new bard class.

- A New Bard Personality (something along the lines of how a bard would seem by a fire, before they started to sing or tell a story of one the famous heros)
- New Music Emotes for Many Instruments
- New Bard Instrument Designs for Weapons. ( make weapons look like instruments and mics )
- New Bard Costumes (male and female versions)
- New Musical Mounts. (Probably reskins as most of them are but they could play music while on them and give off Musically Effects like musical notes when summoned)
- Could add a Whole new Weapon Skill Line using instruments. (Imagine the joy of Smacking Molag Bal in the head with an electric guitar or a violin, or even a flute.)
> This could be a hybrid weapon style of close combat wacks and long range music pulses.
- A new player house: Huge Theater or a tavern to design a stage for the bards to play for their friends. Which brings us to:
- A Music Preforming System (lots of games have it, few do it right, but to be able to play music ingame to friends)
> Before people complain of "Too much noise" haha, There would obviously be a setting to turn off Performances or filter them to only hear those in area, a party with you, or some other filter.

Now I don't believe for a second this would be a thing. But in a perfect world. It would be! And this would be our chance to contribute to the creation and bring the Preforming Arts to the game. Let's be fair. This is a business. And without business this game wouldn't exist. Ideas that would improve business to the game (that work with the bard/music/acting/dancing concept, without making it pay to win could tip the scales to the creators to say hey, lets do it.) I plan to add a full list of Skill lines to this to help the creative flow of the design teams and staff to see what exactly we would like. Tank/Damage/Healer lines.

Now what I ask of all of you! Contribute to the Idea. Positive Feedback, No Drama. What would you call the skills? What would they do? How would this fit lore wise (I have a few ideas, those that played Skyrim might know where I was going with this. lol)? Let's bring the Bard to the Battlefield!

SprigusK

Reserved for Bard Skill Lines.

LunaFlora

a bard skill line for support would be fun, but i cant imagine a whole class and honestly would not enjoy a whole class of it as my character is already unofficially a bard and class change is still not a thing

NotaDaedraWorshipper

Elder Scrolls is not D&D. We can already be bards in TES' definition of a bard.