New talent: Bard

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  • This talent uses chants as offensive and defensive abilities. They appear as green spells on the magic spellbook. They all consume no mp and have a 1 minute cooldown. The animation is the same as the spell casting but they have no delay, the chant goes off as soon as it's performed.
  • Bards songs affect an area delimited by the weapon range, in tiles. Like a circle where the performer is at the middle and everyone within the range is affected.
  • Chants are learned when the bard reaches certain level or they're acquired temporarily while the correct instrument is in the bag.
  • The level chants are:
    • Level 1: War cry. The bard deals physical damage according to the best instrument present in bag. Bard's damage never stuns.
    • Level 40: to the battle. All allies in range receive +1% physical absorption and +1% magic absorption.
    • Level 100: once upon a time. All enemies in range have a 25% chance of receiving the instrument bad status (see the instruments for the statuses)
    • Level 140: ever after. The bard dies and all allies in range are healed according to the bard's hp.
  • The instruments will be (Damage increases for sup/exc):
    • Wooden flute (norm/sup in shop, exc drop). Damage 3 range 3, status stun. Doesn't have a song.
    • Wooden harp (n/s in shop, exc drop). Damage 2, range 6, status stun, level 40. Song is "keep going". Restores sp of allies.
    • Chordette: Damage 5, range 3, status fire, level 100 (ns shop, exc drop). Song is "sinner beggar", steals a random amount of gold from enemies. 
    • Silver flute: Damage 8, range 4, status stun, level 120 (ns shop, no exc). Doesn't have a song.
    • Lament of Liche: rare drop from liche. Damage 7, range 7, status slow (movement is decreased by 20%), level 120. Chants "mandala". Chance of lightning striking enemies.
    • Crystal harp: rare drop from nizie. Damage 2, range 6, status freeze, level 100. Chants "siren's tale". For each ally paralyzed in range, a random enemy in range gets paralyzed.
    • Hamelin's flute: rare drop from Elementalist. Damage 2, range 8, status hold person, level 140. Song is "hamelin", all mobs target a random enemy.

Reasoning: not much. I tried to port a fun, versatile, battle mage -esque class, and adapt it to helbreath's gameplay.