I don't have the perk, but I can confirm that when someone is using it I go straight to that person hahahaha

Also another thing I didn't realise when the perk first came out is that it's effects linger or in other words you can start and finish the performance alone but if you go to other people as long as they're within the range they'll get the bonus

The jack of all trades saying is funny cuz in dnd bards get the ability Jack of all Trades

Something that I found useful about it, is to use it when the gen is blocked with Deadlock or DMS, you aren't losing any time because you can't touch it, but when it comes back you have a boost

I used Bardic Inspiration on a super sweaty Vecna and he literally stopped being sweaty to me. The funny part was that I had rolled 20 as well.

Love combining bardic with stake out and sometimes resilience/prove thyself

There a handful of perks that block generators. When that happens you bust out your [guitar] and start strumming! Use your own Repressed Alliance for maximum flex.

I love using this perk w Dramaturgy, i love just the random chanceness of them 🌟

Random thing i noticed in testing, youre able to use it vertically surprisingly well. Ie on the DnD map, if you see people on the gen down in the dungeon with Bond, you can stand over them and play Bardic and theyll get the bonus! Same thing can happen on Hawkins, if someone is on that isolated upstairs gen, standing underneath them and playing the Lute can reach them. Its niche, but very interesting to me! Could also help them squeeze a bit more into the gen :>

Bardic inspirtation is the single reason i had to delay my "Survivor gestures communication guide" >:(

Fun little fact - Also works on Pig's Jigsaw Boxes. Kinda useless but a little fun fact for your noggin.

It lets you play a Lute! That alone makes it the best perk in the game!

The perk synergizes with Still Sight btw. It's not exactly the best perk by any means, but it's cool that there's synergy between perks from the same survivor. If you're new and the D&D DLC is all you have, consider running the two perks together.

So, just looking at Prove Thyself mathematically, it is a terrible perk per cost. The average Gen time is 90 seconds, with a teammate, including the 15% penalty with one teammate on it, it takes 52.94 seconds according to the Wiki (and note that this is if both of you start simultaneously from 0). Now, Prove Thyself today gives a 10% speed boost to other users on the gen, and does not stack, to help mitigate that cost (it used to be 15 to negate it entirely, but that's not relevant ATM). If you factor in Prove Thyself's 10%, it will change the Charges per second (or c/s) from 1.7 with 2 people, to 1.9. When dividing 90, you get 47.36 seconds to complete one gen, which means you get a difference of 5.58 seconds. Note that this is if BOTH of you start at the exact same time from 0 with no interruptions. Also note that this costs you an ENTIRE perk slot for the full match, and don't forget to factor in that Pop & Pain-Res are two of the most popular killer perks ATM. So, when you are doubling up, you are increasing risk of total time lost, and do not forget this means you are sacrificing an entire perk slot for the match in the HOPES that your teammate will even be able to join you on a generator. If you want to get increased speed, go with Deja Vu. Sure, the 6% doesn't sound as nice, but by yourself it will save you 5.4 seconds of time (not to mention it highlights the closest gens permanently through the match, seriously decreasing your risk of a 3-gen late--game.)

if done early enough on the right killer sometimes you can make them friendly to the whole team

This might be good with scavenger since you get slower gen speeds for 40 seconds after you resupply your toolbox

1. The buff is given to multiple survivors, making it absolutely insane for team play. 2. The buff can stack with Prove Thyself.

Very good video ❤❤❤❤ I did not know about the orreading Ability Because I always run bond lol

The move is Bardic Insp + Deadline (10% more skillchecks when injured) & start with a toolbox (40% more checks). Bardic Insp will pay itself back due to the highly increased skill-check chance of using a toolbox and Alan Wake's Deadline ability as you will regularly score 15+~ skill checks per generator. Or a saved (27-15=)12 seconds each time you have a toolbox or deadline active. This is EXPONENTIALLY better if you're able to buff team-mates quickly eclipsing Prove Thyself. Only downside is it's a high risk move since you need to have 15s uninterrupted by the killer. Then actually have time to do a gen. And the fact Deadline wants you to play injured, but this is something you should already be used to as survivor.

Bardic inspiration has been my killer tamer 5000 with a average succes rate of around 90%. Ive deemed it the „Desperate musician“-tech cuz every time i try to tame the killer im A:Last one alive or B:Death hook and injured

haven't even watched the video yet but i agree with the title because it's my favourite perk 👍 no but like it's so funny because using bardic in front of killers have made them just let me live its crazy

This perk reminds me of Good Riddance from Hades. That aside it's fun to play swf and have access to quick gen speed and faster resets to get all 4 out

I don't know the rules of every Killer, but here are my Bard rules: •The Survivors get one free performance collectively. If someone uses it to save themselves and it works, I won't be swayed by it again in the same Trial. However, it has to be good timing or funny. Just pulling it out when you get cornered isn't enough. Also, multiple Survivors playing at the same time, next to each other is fine. •If you sandbag, you lose Lute privileges and I will make sure you suffer while everyone else escapes. I also will not accept the lute if I notice you barely doing anything all match. Or if you purposely get my attention by clicking, vault spamming, etc •If you roll a 1, you're getting chased as normal and you lose your ability to stop me, but another Survivor has a chance to try later. •T-bagging/pointing in any taunting manner makes your Bardic Inspiration useless and I will hook/sacrifice you.

i love this perk and i love when people run it, but i have a friend who runs it for the meme and pretty much forgets to use it for gen speed ALWAYS

It works on wiggle checks as well. Seen it with Boil Over and it's just killer in a full sabo squad.

also it prevents you from being tombstoned for the duration of the song, so kinda helpful at wasting time if there are no lockers nearby

Everytime I use this perk. My teammates will lure killer to me. And most killers see my play lute. They will just nod and leave. 😂

Bardic Inspiration ALSO affects the person who used it, and can technically be used as Prove Thyself by yourself. It also lingers for the duration AFTER you use it, meaning you can play the geeeetaur and then go find someone

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Where is the aura reading for guitar? I cant find it in the perk description or in the wiki

Does bardic inspiration only give bonus progression towards GREAT skill checks, or ordinary skill checks?

I mean, it's fun perk, this is enough for me

Do multiple bardic inspirations stack? I've noticed that if you play it with other survivors your performances compliment each other, but im not sure if there is any practical effect

The aura reading would unironically make this perk S tier if soloqueue players weren't all dummies.

i used to use hyperfocus, streetwise and built to last now i replaced bard because its just much better

I mean i wish they just revert the cooldown and 20 roll effect to back to 60 seconds because, 90 seconds for a 20 roll is over kill and its basically too much value and not being able go use the extra 30 seconds

It is also a good perk if you want to use a syringe. Instead of needing to put down a durability add on, you can just run this

while its kinda buggy in my experience, when somebody ELSE is running prove thyself it works while your doing the guitar

When I play as the killer, I enjoy the performance 😎

I mean I think it’s insanely good, so Idk if it’s better than I think?

Reconsidering my acts of mercy I’ve given to survivors using this…

They could completely remove its ability and just make it where you play a lute and it would still be in all of my builds.

Interesting video. But I still think it’s a bad perk if PTS does gen progression better and without wasting time and with no cool down. Not sure attracting other survivors to you is a good idea, as it’s usually better to split up in most cases. If they buffed the numbers it may be worth it, or reduced the cooldown for a perk that may not give you any value due to RNG.

4:05 (SCANNING)……….NEVER MIND. HE’S ALREADY BUSY

NOOOOO YOU ARE GONNA GET THE PERK NERFED, STOP HIM!!!

Talking about bringing survivors together as if it was a good thing for the survivors and not the killer. lol

1:40 "It's essentially a slightly weaker version of THE BEST generator perk, prove thyself" I'd disagree with prove thyself being the best, but that aside, I wouldn't say it's a 'slightly weaker' version of it. Because, prove thyself... only works when everyone is piling on to the same generator. Bardic... can work, even if everyone's split up. Take this, Have a situation where everyone's together, maybe at the start of the game, maybe later on. Everyone working on a gen while someone does bardic, will mostly apply at the beginning of the game, and require the hope that killer doesn't have Lethal Pursuer, or just happen to head straight towards the gen you're working on. Better yet if the killer has some kind of setup power, like trapper. But if this happens more at the end game, or killer has lethal, doing this, instead, while everyone is in some corner of the map away from gens, while killer is patrolling the 3gen... Or perhaps everyone in the basement, three running an invocation, while the fourth does bardic, would also work. Anyways, assuming the bardic doesn't get a 1, and especially if they get a 20, fifteen seconds later, the four split up, and each pressure a different generator. Now, if this is happening while there's a three or four gen, especially if everyone is bringing deja to know where the gens are and get even better progress, now all of the generators are being actively pressured, at a much faster rate, each skillcheck giving a decent bonus to the gen progress. With prove thyself, everyone working on one gen, the killer just has to... chase everyone off that one gen, and kick it. With bardic, you can split your gen pressure, no one having the debuff to gen working that working together on the same gen would bring, and making the killer essentially panic, because now all four of the remaining generators are at 90%, and there isn't much they can do about it. Oh, and also, considering killers benefit with survivors being bunched together~ just in general, having everyone together, making it easier to chase everyone off the same gen, knowing where everyone is, but especially with certain killers, like legion, which is now given the opportunity to slash everyone and even down someone, or doc, who can now shock everyone, or huntress or Wesker, who might have a better time hitting someone when there's a cluster of four targets, rather than just being one, with their hatchet or bound, or Unknown, who can just straight up hit everyone at once with a single shot when everyone is grouped together... ~having everyone grouped up on the same gen with prove thyself would give the killer more of an advantage, than having everyone split up, each on their own generator, each providing a lot of their own pressure. Hell, even if you're not working a SWF, and everyone just sticks on the same gen, now able to work faster with bardic... you can just go your own separate way, and pressure a separate generator, much faster.

bardic can even get you hatch

Don't know how people didn't think that if they get a crap roll they can just stop playing guitar hero

I mostly play killer. No matter the game, if someone plays bardic, I let them live.

people get mad when someone stops them from "playing silly guitar" but this silly guitar can actually totally genrush the whole game. so yes. im not allowing survivors to end playing when i play killer. its still a perk.

Takes 15 seconds to cast, which is 16.7% worth of gen repair time (15 / 90); therefore You require 17/9/6 skill checks on a 1/2/3 performance roll to break even with casting the perk The average # of skill checks on a solo generator without modifiers is 6 The % chance of hitting more than 17 skill checks is at most 0.025% The % chance of hitting more than 9 skill checks is at most 18% The % chance of hitting more than 6 skill checks is at most 59% You can also roll a one or the killer can interrupt you making those 15 secs go to waste. Honestly, don’t think this perk is worth running preferably you would want to cancel the performance if you roll anything lower than 11. You are also incentivizing multiple people to join you to work on that gen which you preferably do not want to do in the first place as a killer will interrupt two people if he comes to that gen and you are repairing more efficiently on separate gens as you receive a penalty with more than one person on a gen. All in all the perk is fun and definitely BM worthy, but in most cases, you don’t really want to use this perk. It can be good against the three GEN situation towards the late game or if you’re truly committing a gen rush build with a toolbox with full charges and, committing to this perk with a roll that’s 11 or higher makes it decent a 20 this perk is awesome. Also tried a build with distortion so that I can fully commit to gens without having the killer interrupt me and all in all perk was ok, but nothing to crazy.

damn the dislike ratio is BAD

1:40 "The best generator perk prove thyself"😂😂 Resilience > prove thyself Prove thyself is garbage here is why It gives you 10% but you already get -15% progress speed when you do a generator with another survivor which is why the progress bar turns red when 2 survivor are on it Even if you had the old 15% prove thyself it's still useless because it just cancels the passive -15% slow from doing gens with 2+ people So doing gens separately is way better, especially with resilience since it gives you 9% and there's no -15% slow down when you do a gen alone Also resilience gives you 9% to vaulting, healing, totems, exit gates on top of gens so Resilience > prove thyself

It's not as good as Prove Thyself for Gens... Which is why I use it with Prove Thyself

the innate idea of this perk (wait for a buff to maybe get extra gen progress) will always be not worth it. Immediate gen progress is always the prerogative as the most important thing in dbd matches is time. While you're using the perk the killer gets closer to getting a pain res or eating through more of the resources on the map. This perk is completely nullified and overshadowed by just running a toolbox