I am really loving the game so far, and was really excited to roll a Bard. I am liking the class, but the harp sounds are too much. Every time I use a skill it sounds like a broken piano. I’m sorry I certainly do not mean to be rude, and I understand I can mute the sound effects. But I just wanted to leave some feedback maybe suggesting changing or providing alternate sounds.
Thank you for your time and all your hard work on this game.
I think the same. I love bard class in all ROL games. I like the playstyle of the bard class in Lost Ark too but, I can’t help but be dissapointed with the bard’s sounds.
I’ll elaborate: everybody in this game can play songs. From the warrior to the assassin even archmage can do it. Very beautiful, even complex, elegant and/or grandiose melodies come out with the song mechanic to do special effects like, for example, exiting a dungeon or impress an NPC.
That’s a bit strange from the rol perspective since in the story ambience of this game doesn’t exist elementary school like nowadays, where you are obliged to learn notes, partitures and songs and play them with the flute. So it doesn’t makes sense that trully everybody can play songs like a virtuose master dedicated to music for years.
That’s a thing.
Now we have the bard class in game which actually is a virtuose master dedicated to music for years. What kind of music the bards do? I’ll answer you: noise. How come? Noise? That’s right, pure discordant noise. There is not a single bard skill that makes music. Not even a melody attemp. Just the fingers hammering the cords of the harp to make noise. I’ve never learnt how to play the guitar but that much noise I can do it, even my niece four years old can do it. Not even the ultimate skills of the bard which you have to take time to charge the bar to be able to cast it makes a melody. So then… what’s the point of choosing a bard? You could have made another mage branch like… I don’t know, Psychics instead of Bards and call it the support class. It would make much sense from a story, class related musical point of view.
It’s just ilogical and contradictory that a bard can’t play songs at an basic esencial level, but everybody else in the game can do it monstruosly good.
Do you get the point? In a rol game, every class has a variety of feature that you have to respect for said class to be identified as such. So the discussion with the bard is not that everybody can play songs outside combat, that much is nice. I like it even. But it should happen that the bard ON TOP OF THAT, is able to inspire their allies with MUSIC WHILE FIGHTING. That’s the trademark feature of a bard. But that doesn’t happen in this game.
So, please, I strongly pray for you to change the sound of the bard’s skills. Something reminiscent of music instead of instrumental noise. Please. That, or changing the bard concept for another thing like psychic, or a jester. It would do pretty much the same and still would be fun.
It’s so bizarre to me the sounds they chose. Where’s the harmony? It just sounds like chaos.
I was so excited when I saw there is a bard class and then, when playing the beta, my ears were bleeding.
So so sad…
it would be nice if we could make a tuning in the harp just for the ROL
This is the exact reason I boosted my Bard instead of levelling her. As soon as i heard those noises in class preview, I knew playing the whole storyline with her would drive me insane.
Great class, terrible noises. I understand they don’t want it too melodic so it doesn’t blend into the background music but damn.
The auto-attack sound is unbearable after a few minutes. SAP has been updating sound effects, recently. If such a small dev team can prioritize customer satisfaction, surely LA can too?
I really do hope it is something that is considered and at least discussed more. I like the bard and the game has been fun for me, but the sounds… It’s rough.
I am fairly sure there are at least a couple of people that chose not to play bard just because of the sounds.
In my opinion, this shouldn’t be happening, especially if it is one of only two support classes.
I think I do understand why you chose these sounds, because just smashing a harp with a forceful move would create pretty much that… but it just doesn’t work. They should be more subtle when auto-attacking, as they are heard too often otherwise, and have a harmonic, soothing sound when using combat abilities.
I know I would play my bard more if the sound design was better… the class design is already decent.
I’ve been maining Bard for 3 years and let me tell you…
These sounds are new. They used to be even worse 
I love the sounds imo
I play the class for the sounds lmao
Bard music is a long time meme. At some point you just kind of accept that bards are musician in name only and move on.
The female voices are even funnier, i swear some options are straight up illegal lol. idk how they managed to sneak those across but couldn’t help themselves from censoring the skins.
In a weird way it made sense to me how off pitch and bad the sounds are. You’re creating notes that damage enemies. I can understand that the sounds required to create them are harsh. Could even say that requires even more skill musically than anyone other class. You don’t see anyone else using sound to damage an enemy.
The healing sounds, as far as my ears can tell, are more melodic and nice.
My beef is with the fact that when I’m playing the Songs I don’t use my harp… I put away a musical instrument to play another. Although, there are only a few strings on the harp, so it could be that the harp is designed to be used for combat specifically. Needing only a few strings to pull off the sounds needed to generate the healing and damage notes.