The Bard is a versatile class in Trove, known for its ability to combine magical melodies with high speed exploration. This makes the Bard a great choice for Flux Farming. While other classes like the Shadow Hunter and the Candy Barbarian have their own strengths, the Farming Bard uses unique song mechanics to increase movement speed and area of effect (AOE) damage. This makes the Bard a speed farmer, able to quickly clear dungeons while maintaining high speed.
This guide will break down the essential components of the Farming Bard build, providing you with the gear stat priorities, gem configurations, emblems & flask selection, and recommended ally.
Recommended Gear Stats
For a Farming Bard Build, the focus is on Movement Speed and Attack Speed. A farming build sacrifices some secondary damage for maximum velocity.
| Slot | Stats Priorities |
|---|---|
| Weapon | Magic Damage → Movement Speed → Magic Find → Attack Speed |
| Hat | Max HP → Movement Speed → Magic Find → Attack Speed |
| Face | Max HP → Movement Speed → Magic Damage → Attack Speed |
| Ring | Magic Damage → Energy Regeneration |
Emblems & Flask Selections
The Best Flasks
Conjurer’s Crucible Vial: A top tier choice for speed farming. It has a chance to refill its charges whenever your Magic Find triggers, allowing you to stay in the world indefinitely without returning to the Hub to refill.- Death-Defying Vial: Widely considered the S-Tier flask for most players. It automatically triggers a charge when your health drops too low, preventing you from dying and instantly activating your emblems.
The Best Emblems
The Arcane Emblem and Trailblazing Emblem are the best choices for a magic speed farming build, such as the Bard. They provide burst damage to defeat dungeon bosses and increase movement speed.
- Arcane Emblem: Absolutely essential for all Magical classes. It doubles your Magic Damage (250% boost) for a short duration, allowing you to one shot dungeon bosses.
- Trailblazing Emblem: The gold standard for flux farming. It provides a significant boost to movement speed and jump, ensuring you can fly to the next dungeon as soon as the boss dies.
Recommended Ally
Orchian is considered the best for a Farming Bard. It suits the class’s need for magical power and movement. As a Paragon tier ally, Orchian provides +400 Light and a 25% Magic Damage boost. These are essential for dealing with enemies in Uber 11 and Uber 12 worlds. Orchian‘s movement speed boost is triggered upon defeating an enemy. This helps the Bard move quickly between dungeons.
Gems
Recommended Gem Stats
For gems focus on gems that have Magic Damage → Crit Damage → Movement Speed → Crit hit. once your total Critical Hit reaches 100%, any additional points in that stat become dead weight, they provide zero benefit to your DPS. you should reroll or hunt for pieces that swap Critical Hit for Magic Damage, Crit Damage, or Maximum Health.
Melody Master (Class Gem)
The Melody Master class gem is an important part of the Bard’s abilities. It improves the effectiveness of the Bardsong Buffs for Speed Farming and group combat. When equipped, the 
Jubilant Song’s movement speed bonus and maximum energy gain are increased. The 
Peaceful Song enhances ally healing and doubles the enemy stun duration. Additionally, the 
Battle Song’s deals extra explosion damage and provides stronger physical and magical damage buffs to allies..
Recommended Empowered Gem
For a speed farming Bard build, the best empowered gems focus on movement speed and maximizing Light for late game efficiency. other slots should be filled with abilities that trigger during combat or upon defeating enemies.
- Vampirian Vanquisher (Cosmic): is widely considered the best choice for speed farming. It grants movement speed when landing a critical hit and provides a small amount of life-leech.
- Pyrodisc: is a staple for all farming classes. This gem has a chance to spawn a flaming disc around when an enemy is killed. This disc damages nearby enemies and grants a significant +30 movement speed buff.
- Explosive Epilogue: causes enemies to explode upon death, dealing damage to other nearby enemies. It is effective for clearing grouped mobs in dungeons.
Best Subclass Choices
For a Speed Farming Bard, the absolute best subclass choices depend entirely on whether you need to optimize for maximum movement speed or burst damage to clear bosses faster.
The top subclass recommendations for a speed farming Bard are detailed below:
Candy Barbarian Subclass (Best for Pure Speed)
The Candy Barbarian subclass is highly favored by endgame speed farmers.
- The Effect: Damaging enemies gives a chance to drop a piece of candy that increases your attack speed and movement speed.
- Why it’s the Best Choice: Because the Bard attacks rapidly, you will trigger these candy drops constantly while blasting through dungeons, pushing your movement speed closer to its absolute peak.
Lunar Lancer Subclass (Best for Burst Speed & Damage)
The Lunar Lancer subclass acts as a hybrid choice for both velocity and damage output.
- The Effect: Attacks have a chance to briefly grant you a Lunar Blessing, which significantly increases your Damage, Attack speed, and Movement Speed.
- Why it’s the Best Choice: If you need a sudden burst of power to one shot dungeon bosses while simultaneously gaining a quick sprint to the next destination, this is the premier option.
Final Thoughts
The Bard is a class that offers a high speed farming experience. It rewards active gameplay and melody management. The Bard provides tactical utility in both solo and group settings. Mastering the transition between songs and maintaining Jubilant Song allows for high movement speeds. This turns Flux Farming into a seamless, high speed performance.