Okay, so... I haven't really been playing Terraria for awhile, I took a bit of a break.
I had tried Thorium once before, like at some point last year (I forget when) and I remember the neatness of that new water biome and something about some biome in the underworld, but something pulled me away, I forget what... it might have been FFXIV: Stormblood.
Either way, I've been kinda hankering for some more Terraria, but I didn't really wanna do Vanilla (since I'm waiting on 1.3.6+), and then I remembered... hey there's a mod out there I used to use... I wonder what that's like now?
So I reinstall tMod and Thorium and I start up a game.
Do some spelunking and I happen across some materials and I notice right away, this........Bard........ thing.
I did a flat "......what." and stared at the screen for a second. "Bard? WTF? Why would you put Bards of all things in Terraria of all games?" I thought to myself. I went 'meh' and promptly deleted the piece of cloth I made and went about my business. Didn't think too much of it.
See, most games that do Bards tend to them very.... I don't know. They over-emphasize the support aspect of Bards, and they wind up being either a hybrid, or a pure support that is useless by itself. In FFXIV, Bards are basically archers with harps on their bows. In FFXI, bards were.... useless by themselves.
Well, I decided to fill in a portion of the map and lo and behold, I came across a Flute in a chest. I'm like "lul." and I decide "what the heck, slap it on the hotbar and see what it does."
So I fire off some shots and I'm like "huh this thing shoots pretty fast and it has this neat little gauge on the screen..."
I got to the Ocean and tried to find a Water Chest (there weren't any) when those flute projectiles I was just firing off suddenly home in on something... oh crap, a shark. RUN!
.... the thing was dead before I got back to shore. A shark. I killed a shark with a wooden chest item. Double-You-Tee-Eff.
Well, I went to looking at the wiki and I saw the amazing list of different instruments, supporting accessories, armor sets... I don't know that I would go full bard, but dude, some of those weapons sound rather easy to acquire and look like great backup weapons.
So..... in closing...... congratulations. You guys did the impossible. You somehow managed to implement bard, and do it better than any other game I've ever seen, AND you've managed to implement a whole class better than Re-Logic did with the half-baked throwing class (and arguably it seems better than summoner).