Music and support. Skills come from the active server database.
Job #19
Bard / Dancer
Music and support
30 available skills, including inherited skills from previous jobs.
How to obtain this job
Requirements and step-by-step route
Where to start
Wandering Bard
Map: comodo · coordinates: 226, 123
/navi comodo 226/123
What to prepare
Spend all skill points before changing jobs. No specific stat allocation is required.
Male characters only. Snowysnow's story in Lutie is a required part of the quest chain.
One accepted flower: Singing Flower, Hinalle, Aloe, Ment, Izidor, Witherless Rose, Frozen Rose or Illusion Flower.
For Snowysnow's story: 1 Squid Ink and 1 Sticky Mucus.
60 Trunk, 60 Fine-grained Trunk, 60 Solid Trunk or 60 Barren Trunk are required to receive an instrument on advancement; reward quality depends on the wood and Job Level.
Walkthrough
Step 1
As a male character, speak with Wandering Bard (Aigu): /navi comodo 226/123. Bring one suitable flower.
Step 2
Complete the Snowman's story: Snowman at /navi xmas 134/112, Duffle at /navi xmas_in 167/173, then Snowman again. After his story, find Poze at /navi xmas 117/304.
Step 3
Speak with Uncle Hairy at /navi xmas 176/236 and give him 1 Squid Ink and 1 Sticky Mucus. Then find Lenient Aunt at /navi xmas_in 27/103.
Step 4
At the aunt's request, return to Snowman for salt and bring it to her. Visit Hashokii at /navi xmas 146/136, then Little Boy at /navi xmas 206/168 and Little Girl at /navi xmas 208/168. Finish the story with Snowman.
Step 5
Return to Aigu at /navi comodo 226/123. Repeat his song lines exactly as displayed: spelling and punctuation matter.
Step 6
After completing the song, spend your skill points and confirm advancement. Deliver 60 of your chosen wood type to receive an instrument; advancing without an instrument is possible.
Result
You advance to the corresponding second job. Any first job levels you did not earn become unavailable after changing jobs.
Spend all skill points before changing jobs. No specific stat allocation is required.
Female characters only.
10,000 Zeny and one randomly assigned set: 20 Sticky Mucus + 3 Jellopy + 5 Red Potion + Shoes; or 5 Earthworm Peeling + Boots; or 2 Clam Shell + 5 Yellow Potion + 20 Jellopy + 10 Black Hair + Sandals. The NPC checks the items and deducts Zeny; items are not consumed in this implementation.
A bow and arrows are needed to kill the final Poring on stage.
Walkthrough
Step 1
As a female character, speak with Bor Robin at /navi comodo 193/151 and agree to enter the Dancer hall.
Step 2
Register with Aile at /navi job_duncer 43/93. Prepare the assigned items and 10,000 Zeny, then confirm participation.
Step 3
Pass Bijou's theory test at /navi job_duncer 95/93. Questions concern the job, dances and stage conduct.
Step 4
Join the queue at /navi job_duncer 32/154. On stage, move to each announced tile in time: up, down, left, right or center. Follow the sequence; kill the Poring that appears at the end.
Step 5
After passing the performance, return to Bijou at /navi job_duncer 95/93, spend your skill points and receive the job.
Result
You advance to the corresponding second job. Any first job levels you did not earn become unavailable after changing jobs.
From level 60 quests come from Instructor Ur. He sends you to field instructors in turn: 60–69 Comodo, 70–79 Glast Heim, 80–89 Einbroch, 90–99 Ice Dungeon.
After the first report to Ur talk to Blacksmith Thorn; he hands out the fourth and best Eden set: hat, mantle, boots and uniform.
Weapons Expert BK upgrades the Eden weapon: one enchant after the Glast Heim quest, a second after Einbroch. Bring the Eden weapon in your inventory.
Hunting quests are on the Mission [71 - 85], 86-90 and 91-99 boards. At level 99 with Job Level 50 you take the third job.
Episode 16.1 and Noblesse cannot be started without this quest, so finish it ahead of time, before level 100. Requires level 70.
1. Take the quest from the Promotional Staff in Prontera.
2. Promotional Staff in Aldebaran: talk and bring 300 Jellopy.
3. Promotional Staff in Geffen: talk, bring 1 Emerald, then 1 Ruby.
4. Promotional Staff in Izlude: from level 70 he lets you through at once; earlier he asks you to return at 70.
5. Return to the Promotional Staff in Prontera; he sends you to Lighthalzen.
6. In Lighthalzen talk to the Guide and go to the alliance headquarters to Sikaiz. Keep talking until he sends you to the Prontera palace.
7. Alliance Manager in the Prontera palace: talk and return to Sikaiz.
8. Sikaiz sends you to the Rachel temple to the Alliance Manager; talk and return to Sikaiz again. At the end he asks you to type your character name; type it exactly, case-sensitive.
9. Talk twice to Officer A or Officer B in the same building.
10. The Guard in the alliance headquarters moves you to the rift. The Rift Guard takes you to the field where Munkenro stands.
11. Munkenro's trial: after you confirm, 80 Allied Soldiers appear on the field. They must be defeated within 15 minutes; bring a party or a stock of potions. If time runs out, Munkenro lets you try again.
12. After the victory talk to Munkenro; access is granted. Later the New World is reached through the Time-Space Gap Guard in the Morroc Ruins.
The first class set after Eden. Requires level 100 and access to the New World (episode 13.1 quest Onward to the New World).
The episode story starts at the Royal Messenger in Prontera. Quests reward Honor Token.
The set is sold by the Noblesse Operator in the palace. Below is what he offers your branch and for how much.
Experience at 100–140 comes from Eden quests: Gelkah and Rohtert (100–110), Mingmin (111–120), Melody-Jack and Aigu (121–130), Ragi (131–140). From level 100 Instructor Ur sends you to the Ash Vacuum.
Episode 17.1 continues the 16.2 story and opens at level 130. The vendors stand in the sp_cor laboratory and become available after the episode's story quests.
Elyumina sells Illusion armor (level 130), a flexible branch with modules.
The Grace Operator sells the third tier of the class set, Grace (level 150). Parts cost Mysterious Component, the +9 refine ticket costs Cor Core. Offers for your branch are listed below.
Before spending resources compare a full Grace set with Illusion: different builds favour different ones.
An upgrade of Illusion armor. Yeoncheong trades an Illusion piece refined to +9 plus 900 Barmil Ticket for the matching Automatic piece.
This is an expensive step: refining Illusion to +9 the usual way is very hard. Automatic is optional; ticketed Grace +9 remains a working set until episode 18.
Yeoncheong — Automatic exchange
/navi ba_in01 87/383
Level 170–190+
Gray Wolf (episode 18)
Episode 18 opens at level 170; Gray Wolf equipment is worn from 190.
Emmet in the wolf village sells any piece for 350 Amethyst Fragment. Asad sells refine tickets: +7 for 1050 and +9 for 2250 Amethyst Fragment.
Three main pieces refined to +9 by tickets cost 7,800 Amethyst Fragment; it is a long-term goal, plan it in days.
Shadow gear uses six separate slots and is worn over regular equipment, so it can be collected alongside any set.
Sets are sold by Cat Hand Salesman Macaroon for [Kachua] Mileage Coupon: a cube with three pieces of a class set costs 15 coupons. The wiki page of each cube shows what is inside.
[Kachua] Mileage Coupon is given when a secret box is opened with a Kachua's Secret Key.
Right now keys do not drop from monsters and are not sold by NPCs.