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 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-based 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 increases from 25% to 40%, and the maximum energy gain increases to 50. The 
Peaceful Song increases ally healing to 45% of max health (up from 20%) and doubles the enemy stun effect duration to 3 seconds. Additionally, the 
Battle Song‘s explosion damage is boosted to 800% Magic Damage, and the physical and magical damage buffs for allies increase to 45%.
Recommended Empowered Gem
For a 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.
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.