Bard Armor

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Appearance	Set	Head	Chest	Legs	Sum	Bonuses / Effects / Notes	Cost / Source / Crafted At
Pre-Hardmode
	Crier's armor	1	2	2	5	+15% inspiration regeneration rate Set Bonus: Your symphonic empowerments will last an additional 3 seconds	36 Cloth Crafted at Work Bench
	Jester's armor	4	6	4	14	+11% symphonic critical strike chance +5% inspiration regeneration rate Corrupt Jester Shirt: Symphonic damage has a 20% chance to empower players with bonus flat damage Crimson Jester Shirt: Symphonic damage has a 20% chance to empower players with bonus life regeneration Set Bonus: Symphonic critical strikes slow all nearby enemies briefly	15 Silk 45 Demonite Bar / Crimtane Bar 30 Shadow Scale / Tissue Sample Crafted at Iron Anvil / Lead Anvil
	Noble's armor	5	7	6	18	+10% symphonic damage +15% inspiration note drop chance +5% inspiration regeneration rate +8% movement speed Set Bonus: Inspiration notes are twice as potent and increase your symphonic damage briefly	36 Cloth 30 Hellstone Bar Crafted at Iron Anvil / Lead Anvil
Hardmode
	Marching Band armor	7	9	8	24	+16% symphonic damage +8% symphonic critical strike chance +10% inspiration regeneration rate +10% movement speed Set Bonus: While in combat, a rainbow of damaging symphonic symbols will follow your movement and stun enemies	24 Silk 24 Soul of Light Crafted at Iron Anvil / Lead Anvil
	Hallowed armor(Hallowed Chapeau)	6	15	11	32	+7% damage +8% symphonic damage (+15% total) +7% critical strike chance +8% playing speed +10% inspiration regeneration rate +8% movement speed Set Bonus: Become immune after striking an enemy, and increases the duration of your symphonic empowerments by 8 seconds Set Effect: After-image and pulsating effect	54 Hallowed Bar Crafted at Mythril Anvil / Orichalcum Anvil
	Ancient Hallowed armor(Ancient Hallowed Chapeau)						54 Hallowed Bar Crafted a Demon Altar / Crimson Altar
	Cyber Punk armor	11	15	13	39	+18% symphonic damage +10% symphonic critical strike chance +10% inspiration regeneration rate +10% chance for inspiration notes to drop +12% movement speed Symphonic empowerments last 2 seconds longer Set Bonus: Pressing the Armor Ability key will cycle you through four states: Red: The player and nearby allies are granted Flat Damage II & Damage II Green: The player and nearby allies are granted Movement Speed II & Flight Time II Purple: The player and nearby allies are granted Maximum Resource II & Resource Regeneration II Blue: The player and nearby allies are granted Defense II and Damage Reduction II	12 Strange Plating 24 Hallowed Bar Crafted at Soul Forge
	Ornate armor	14	18	16	48	+20% symphonic damage +5% symphonic playing speed +16% symphonic critical strike chance +10% chance for inspiration notes to drop +15% inspiration regeneration rate +15% movement speed Symphonic empowerments last 3 seconds longer Set Bonus: Symphonic critical strikes cause a random active empowerment to ascend to a fourth level of intensity	30 Bloom Weave Crafted at Mythril Anvil / Orichalcum Anvil
	Maestro's armor	15	21	18	54	+24% symphonic damage +5% symphonic playing speed +12% symphonic critical strike chance +10% chance for inspiration notes to drop +15% inspiration regeneration rate +15% movement speed Symphonic empowerments last 3 seconds longer Set Bonus: Pressing the Armor Ability key will summon a chorus of music playing ghosts	18 Dark Matter 26 Silk Crafted at Mythril Anvil / Orichalcum Anvil
	Shooting Star armor	19	25	12	66	+28% symphonic damage +10% symphonic playing speed +16% symphonic critical strike chance +10% chance for inspiration notes to drop +20% inspiration regeneration rate +15% movement speed Symphonic empowerments last 4 seconds longer Set Bonus: Symphonic empowerments last 6 seconds longer, each unique empowerment you have increases your symphonic damage by 5% and your inspiration regeneration by 2%	36 Luminite Bar 45 Shooting Star Fragment Crafted at Ancient Manipulator
	Rhapsodist armor	16 24	28	24	68 76	+30% symphonic damage +16% symphonic critical strike chance +20% movement speed +15% chance for inspiration notes to drop from enemies +3 maximum inspiration +5 seconds to empowerment duration Soloist's Hat: +10% symphonic playing speed, +12% symphonic critical strike chance, +15% inspiration regeneration rate, increased wind instrument homing speed, string instrument projectiles bounce an additional time Set Bonus: Pressing the Armor Ability key will give you endless amounts of inspiration and greatly increased symphonic damage and playing speed. This effect lasts for 10 seconds and needs to recharge for 1 minute Inspirator's Helmet: +25% inspiration regeneration rate, +15% percussion critical strike damage, +5 maximum inspiration, dropped inspiration notes are more potent and give a random level I empowerment to all nearby allies when picked up Set Bonus: Pressing the Armor Ability key will overload all nearby allies with every empowerment III for 15 seconds. Using this ability requires 20 inspiration and must recharge for one minute	3 Inferno Essence 3 Ocean Essence 3 Death Essence Crafted at Ancient Manipulator