Advantage of Cunning

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Bard, Virtue of Cunning class feature

Benefit: When you slide an ally with your Virtue of Cunning, you can also slide an enemy that was adjacent to that ally into the space the ally vacated.

Bard Implement Expertise

Epic Tier

Prerequisite: 21st level, Con 15, Int 15, Cha 21, bard

Benefit: When you wield a bard implement while using an arcane power, you can score a critical hit on a roll of 19–20.

Bard of All Trades

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Bard

Benefit: You gain a +3 feat bonus to all untrained skill checks.

Bardic Dilettante [Multiclass Bard]

Prerequisite: Cha 13

Benefit: You gain training in one skill from the bard’s class skills list. Once per day, you can use the bard’s majestic word power.

In addition, you can wield bard implements.

Bardic Knowledge

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Bard

Benefit: You gain a +2 feat bonus to Arcana, Dungeoneering, History, Nature, Religion, and Streetwise checks.

Bardic Ritualist [Multiclass Bard]

Prerequisite: Int 13, Cha 13

Benefit: You gain training in the Arcana skill. You gain the bard’s Bardic Training class feature. In addition, you can wield bard implements.

Bardic Wayfarer

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Bard, majestic word class feature

Benefit: Once per turn when you teleport an ally with a power, you can also teleport 1 square as a free action.

In addition, when you use majestic word you can teleport the target 1 square instead of sliding the target.

Battle Cadence

Prerequisite: Bard, majestic word power

Benefit: When you use majestic word, you can slide the target 1 extra square. The target also gains a +2 bonus to the next damage roll he or she makes before the end of his or her next turn.

Battle Song Expertise

Prerequisite: Bard

Benefit: You gain a +1 feat bonus to attack rolls you make with any weapon with which you have proficiency and with a wand or another item designated as a bard implement. This bonus increases to +2 at 11th level and +3 at 21st level.

You also gain a +1 feat bonus to the number of squares that you can pull, push, or slide creatures with your bard attacks and bard paragon path attacks.

Blighting Power

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Shadar-kai; bard, sorcerer, swordmage, warlock, or wizard class

Benefit: You gain a benefit with any of the following attack powers you know.

Combat Virtuoso

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Bard

Benefit: When you use any attack power gained through a multiclass feat, paragon multiclassing, or the half-elf ’s Dilettante racial feature, you can use Charisma for the power’s attack rolls rather than the ability score normally used to make the attack. You still determine damage normally.

Cooperative Chance

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Halfling, bard

Benefit: You can use your second chance power when an attack hits an ally within 10 squares of you. If the attack misses, you can slide that ally a number of squares equal to your Dexterity modifier.

Disheartening Presence

Paragon Tier

Prerequisite: 11th level, bard

Benefit: While you are conscious and not bloodied, bloodied enemies adjacent to you take a -1 penalty to attack rolls.

Envoy to the Fey

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Bard

Benefit: You can speak, read, and write Elven. When you make a Bluff, Diplomacy, Intimidate, or Streetwise check against a fey creature, you can roll twice and use the higher result.

Extended Prescience

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Bard, Virtue of Prescience class feature

Benefit: When you use your Virtue of Prescience to grant a power bonus to an ally’s defense, that bonus lasts until the end of the ally’s next turn.

Feyborn Charm

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Eladrin or gnome, bard

Benefit: When you use an arcane charm power, you gain a +1 feat bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls. The bonus increases to +2 at 15th level and to +3 at 25th level.

You also gain a +1 feat bonus to Bluff checks and Diplomacy checks.

Friendly Deception

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Bard, words of friendship power

Benefit: When you use words of friendship, you can apply the power bonus to a Bluff check instead of a Diplomacy check.

Healing Song [Multiclass Bard]

Prerequisite: Any multiclass bard feat, paragon multiclassing as a bard

Benefit: You gain the bard’s Song of Rest and Skill Versatility class features.

Improved Cunning

Paragon Tier

Prerequisite: 11th level, bard, Virtue of Cunning class feature

Benefit: When you use Virtue of Cunning to slide an ally, you can slide the ally 2 squares instead of 1.

Improved Majestic Word

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Bard, majestic word power

Benefit: When you use majestic word, the target of the power gains temporary hit points equal to your Charisma modifier.

Improved Valor

Paragon Tier

Prerequisite: 11th level, bard, Virtue of Valor class feature

Benefit: The number of temporary hit points granted by your Virtue of Valor increases by 3.

Infernal Clamor

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Tiefling, bard

Benefit: When you use your infernal wrath racial power, each of your allies who can see you gains a +1 power bonus to his or her next attack roll against the triggering enemy before the end of that enemy’s next turn.

Infuriating Escape

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Halfling, bard

Benefit: When you use your second chance racial power and the enemy’s second attack roll misses you, that enemy grants combat advantage to the next one of your allies that attacks it before the end of your next turn.

Long Arm of Virtue

Epic Tier

Prerequisite: 21st level, bard, Bardic Virtue class feature

Benefit: The range of your Bardic Virtue increases by 5 squares.

Lyric of Rejuvenation

Paragon Tier

Prerequisite: 11th level, bard, Song of Rest class feature

Benefit: Each ally affected by your Song of Rest regains 2 additional hit points with each healing surge he or she spends at the end of the rest.

Majestic Fervor

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Bard, trained in Religion

Benefit: If the target of your majestic word is not bloodied, it also gains a +1 bonus to attack rolls until the end of its next turn.

Majestic Rescue

Paragon Tier

Prerequisite: 11th level, bard, majestic word power

Benefit: When you use majestic word, you can grant the target a saving throw in addition to the other effects of the power.

Master of Stories [Multiclass Bard]

Prerequisite: Charisma 13

Benefit: You gain training in a skill of your choice from the bard’s list of class skills.

You also gain the skald bard’s skald’s aura power. The aura’s healing benefit can be used only once per day.

In addition, you gain proficiency with the wand implement.

Update (2/23/2012)

Changed in Jan/Feb 2012 updates.

Bard UtilitySkald’s Aura

You chant, sing, or otherwise inspire your allies with your words, allowing them to draw the strength to battle on from your encouragement.

Encounter

Aura, Healing, Martial

Minor Action Personal

Effect: You activate an aura 5 that lasts until the end of the encounter. If the aura ends prematurely for any reason, you can reactivate it during the encounter as a minor action.

Twice per encounter but only once per turn, you or any ally in the aura can use a minor action to spend a healing surge and regain 1d6 additional hit points. Alternatively, you or any ally can use a minor action to allow an adjacent ally to spend a healing surge and regain the additional hit

points.

Level 6: 2d6 additional hit points.

Level 11: 3d6 additional hit points.

Level 16: 4d6 additional hit points, and the healing can be used three times per encounter.

Level 21: 5d6 additional hit points, and the healing can be used three times per encounter.

Level 26: 6d6 additional hit points, and the healing can be used three times per encounter.

Moon Sight

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Bard, Virtue of Prescience class feature, must worship Sehanine

Benefit: When you use your Virtue of Prescience, the triggering enemy takes psychic damage equal to your Wisdom modifier.

Multiclass Mastery

Epic Tier

Prerequisite: 21st level, bard

Benefit: Gain two multiclass feats for which you meet the prerequisites.

Phalanx Advance

Prerequisite: Hobgoblin, bard, Virtue of Valor class feature

Benefit: When you use your Virtue of Valor class feature, you and each ally adjacent to you can shift 1 square as a free action. Your allies must end the shift in a square adjacent to you.

Prescient Aid

Paragon Tier

Prerequisite: 11th level, bard, Virtue of Prescience class feature

Benefit: When an ally within 10 squares of you misses with an attack roll, you can use your Virtue of Prescience as an immediate interrupt. That ally gains a power bonus to the attack roll equal to your Wisdom modifier.

Prescient Fortification

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Bard, Virtue of Prescience class feature

Benefit: When you use your Virtue of Prescience to grant a power bonus to an ally, increase that bonus by 2.

Prescient Resurgence

Epic Tier

Prerequisite: 21st level, bard, Virtue of Prescience class feature

Benefit: When you spend an action point to gain an extra action, you also regain the use of your Virtue of Prescience.

Rose King's Fallen Petals

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Bard or cleric, proficiency with longsword

Benefit: You gain a +2 feat bonus to Nature checks. When you hit an enemy with an attack power associated with this feat while using a longsword, a dying ally adjacent to you gains a +5 power bonus to their next death saving throw.

Associated Powers: Guiding Strike, Priest's Shield

Rose King's Reprise

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Bard or cleric, proficiency with longsword

Benefit: You gain a +2 feat bonus to Perception checks.

When you hit an enemy with an attack power associated with this feat using a longsword, until the end of your next turn whenever you or an ally adjacent to you spends a healing surge, you and all adjacent allies regain 1 hit point.

Associated Powers: Recovery Strike, War Song Strike

Rousing Voice

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Human, bard

Benefit: When an ally within 10 squares of you uses second wind, he or she gains also temporary hit points equal to your Charisma modifier.

Saving Breath

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Con 13, bard, majestic word power

Benefit: When you use majestic word, the target gains a bonus equal to your Constitution modifier to the next saving throw it makes before the end of your next turn.

Skald Training

Prerequisite: Bard, majestic word power

Benefit: You swap your majestic word for the skald’s aura power. You and your allies can use minor actions to benefit from the aura only as many times during an encounter as you would be able to use majestic word.

Bard UtilitySkald’s Aura

You chant, sing, or otherwise inspire your allies with your words, allowing them to draw the strength to battle on from your encouragement.

Encounter

Aura, Healing, Martial

Minor Action Personal

Effect: You activate an aura 5 that lasts until the end of the encounter. If the aura ends prematurely for any reason, you can reactivate it during the encounter as a minor action.

Twice per encounter but only once per turn, you or any ally in the aura can use a minor action to spend a healing surge and regain 1d6 additional hit points. Alternatively, you or any ally can use a minor action to allow an adjacent ally to spend a healing surge and regain the additional hit

points.

Level 6: 2d6 additional hit points.

Level 11: 3d6 additional hit points.

Level 16: 4d6 additional hit points, and the healing can be used three times per encounter.

Level 21: 5d6 additional hit points, and the healing can be used three times per encounter.

Level 26: 6d6 additional hit points, and the healing can be used three times per encounter.

Song of Inspiration

Paragon Tier

Prerequisite: 11th level, bard, Song of Rest class feature

Benefit: At the end of any rest during which you use your Song of Rest, you and each ally who can hear you can spend a healing surge. Each character who spends a healing surge in this manner gains temporary hit points equal to 5 + your Charisma modifier, instead of regaining hit points.

Stirring Song of Baator

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Tiefling, bard

Benefit: When you hit an enemy with a bard attack that has the fire or fear keyword, one ally who can see you gains temporary hit points equal to 1 + your Charisma modifier.

The temporary hit points increase to 3 + your Charisma modifier at 11th level and 5 + your Charisma modifier at 21st level.

Strength of Valor

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Bard, Virtue of Valor class feature

Benefit: When you grant an ally temporary hit points with your Virtue of Valor, that ally also gains a +2 bonus to the next damage roll he or she makes before the end of his or her next turn.

Supreme Majesty

Epic Tier

Prerequisite: 21st level, Cha 19, bard, majestic word power

Benefit: When you use majestic word, you can affect two targets instead of one.

Vistani Jongleur [Vistani Bloodline]

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Vistani Heritage

Benefit: You can master and perform Bard rituals as though you had the Ritual Caster feat. Once per day, you can ignore the component cost of a ritual you have mastered of your level or lower that has Bard as a prerequisite.

Walk Among the Fey

Paragon Tier

Prerequisite: 11th level, bard

Benefit: Whenever you use a power that slides a creature, you can teleport that creature an equal number of squares instead. Where you teleport the creature remains subject to any restrictions on the original slide.

Wild Virtue

Prerequisite: Bard, Bardic Virtue class feature

Benefit: Each time you use your Bardic Virtue, you can shift 1 square as a free action.

Word of Shadow

Heroic Tier

Prerequisite: Assassin, bard, majestic word power

Benefit: When you use majestic word, you can choose to give any or all your targets concealment until the start of your next turn.

Words of Wrath

Prerequisite: Bard, training in Intimidate, words of friendship power

Benefit: You gain a +2 feat bonus to Intimidate checks.

Also, when you use words of friendship, you can choose for the power bonus to apply to the next Intimidate check you make before the end of your next turn, instead of the next Diplomacy check.