Bard is out NOW! [X.34.0.0]

[Urgle]

r/RotMG - Bard is out NOW!

Hello Realmers,

The moment we’ve all been waiting for. After a public testing session or two (or three)… After the various feedback we got from you guys… It’s time to release the BARD class. With his musical tendencies and a lute in his hands, the Bard inspires your and your group’s attack range!

Most heroes are content with the sounds of clashing swords and earth-shattering spells polluting the battlefield. To some, it is one of life’s constants that they must either accept or be driven mad by. The Bard, on the other hand, finds that there is indeed room for improvement in the cacophony of battle. With the inspiring sounds of his lute, fellow adventurers will reach their full potential like never before!

How the new class looks, works and feels? Check out the Bard Spotlight here!

Realm Exalt Patch

Little by little, we are improving Realm Exalt, thanks to your help! The QoL ideas are more and more the talk of the town. We already started implementing some of your ideas and feedback alongside trying to improve performance and fix various bugs in this Beta version of Realm Exalt. Let’s take a look at what we have for you this time around:

• Added a popup to update the launcher in case you have an older/wrong version.
• Added a Realm generation timer in the UI. You can now see how much time has passed since a certain realm has been opened.
• Added new hotkey options for “Show Options”, “Show Servers” and “Show Legends”
• Added the option to adjust the chat font size, as follows:
  • Default: 12
  • Tiny: 9
  • Small: 11
  • Large: 14
  • Big: 16.
• Added the option to adjust the rotation speed of the camera.
  • Default is 1
  • Min: 0.8
  • Max: 2
• All in-game popups have been polished.
• Changed the opacity of the color of a “locked” players on the minimap
• Changing the Interaction key while standing on a portal will no longer change that key once entering the portal.
• Create a queue system for Realms.
• Enemy shadow color is now properly visible.
• ESC is now the default “Show Menu” hotkey and not bindable anymore.
• Fame’s tiers on any new character selection screen can no longer be dragged or changed.
• Fixed DC issue cases.
• Fixed errors involving tooltips.
• Fixed infinite loading screen issue when creating a new character after removing older characters on the account.
• Fixed issue with chat messages not showing for you or whoever is sending you the message in chat.
• Fixed issues with errors when accepting/declining/blocking a friend invite.
• Floating text for XP/HP/MP now shows at all times when taking damage/losing HP/MP in realm.
• GrenadeToss and ObjectToss now display correctly (in and out of fog of war).
• Implemented a new Contextual Interaction hotkey (holding LEFT CTRL + left click) to interact with chat bubbles and chat without using your ability or interrupting gameplay.
• New visual stasis effect.
• Performance optimizations were added.
• Polished tooltips.
• Quantities of items (no stacks) are now displayed on the login calendar.
• Separated the Dynamic HP color option for GUI and Player.
• Stars now appear correctly in chat when whispering another player.
• Unlocking a new class now shows on the minimap UI.
• Upon death by Gold Planet, the correct name of the monster shows in chat.
• UT/ST symbols now show correctly and only on UTs and STs respectively.
• Various display fixes and improvements.

Other changes

• Added a new star system due to the new Bard class being released. Scale is now:
  • Light Blue star: 1-15
  • Dark Blue star: 16-31
  • Red star: 32-47
  • Orange star: 48-63
  • Yellow star: 64-79
  • White star: 80
• Changed the sprites for all tiered wakizashi, Wakizashi of Eastern Winds, and Wakizashi of Crossing Fires to use a style consistent with all other wakis.
• Feed power of the Santa Trickster Skin was reduced from 1000 FP to 500 FP.
• Increased the drop rates of Samurai, Sorcerer and Wizard ST in the Tinkerer’s Chests and added the Bard UT’s to them.
• Art Contest Bard Skins
• New skins

Content Creators

In the beginning of May, we decided to make our bond with you, the community, stronger. We decided to partner with several streamers and youtubers, people that you all know and love watching.

bickuribox12

• YouTube

CussingCanadian

• Twitch

Floflorian

• Twitch
• YouTube

Hyeperion

• Twitch
• YouTube

Sebchoof

• Twitch
• YouTube

Soulshift

• Twitch
• YouTube

SPENCA

• Twitch
• YouTube

Squirtle 920

• Twitch
• YouTube

The Mother Ship

• Twitch
• YouTube

TRololoLove

• Twitch
• YouTube

Vars

• Twitch
• YouTube

[Twitchystr]

bard sux because i cant play him yet. also he takes me further frmo yellow star ;(

[Jax]

the fact its only on unity annoys me like what are they tryna do here? force us to play unity to want to play bard?? thats not right unless theres a reason they cant leave the bard on flash and unity

[BaraBlazer]

There’s a good reason why they’re abandoning flash, that’s for sure. Let’s just say this Unity exclusivity is part of the transition.

[Mynamerr]

Anyone else can’t even connect on unity anymore?

[IllIlIIII]

Yeah as much as I love the unity client the dc makes me not want to even run it atm. Just been on flash. Oh i didn’t read that they just fixed it nice

Nvm Im still getting dc and back to flash we go

[DJANCOK]

The queue thing is pretty cool, good job DECA

[Novachiz]

Change the default ability back to spacebar ao we dont have to control-click to tp

[DivineOryx]

Thats what I got :p.

[Mynamerr]

I think its a serversided problem.

After changing the default server via regedit the change server button worked again for me

[DivineOryx]

oh okay, I will try that. I was starting to get worried my computer is just bad and I won’t be able to play the bard.

[KallemuleJ]

I don’t understand the point of it being an Exalt Launcher exclusive class (at least it seems to be). I personally don’t use the Exalt Launcher and use Adobe Flash Player instead because when I’m on the Exalt Launcher my movements are always delayed and it is laggy for me. I hope this is just a glitch or mistake because if i play Exalt Launcher for 2 minutes I will die on minimum 3 characters.

[Backpedal]

The purpose is clear.

They’re not spending any additional effort on flash at all.

[JimdaFish]

I hope this is just a glitch or mistake

It is not; DECA has made it clear that Bard will be Exalt-exclusive. There are a number of possible reasons for this, including (but not limited to) not wanting to make additional large changes to a platform which will no longer be used soon, and potentially to avoid a certain exploit that currently (to my knowledge) is only usable through Flash.

Fixed DC issue cases.

I’m hoping they actually fixed it this time; their last attempt wasn’t very effective.

Other than that, I look forward to playing the class!

[Urgle]

Flash is laggy. I lag already when there’s a tshot bard playing with wavecrest. The parrots are cool, but they create massive lag.

[Shatter]

Outside of UTs this class has one use, buff melees in lost halls. Pretty much dead useless besides that.

[NyanGamer]

Bard seems to lag out my game whenever there are more than one bard using their ability

[Orsome]

you should check the game settings.

[LowTide]

[Platformz]

Doot doot

Realm x Necrodancer mashup when