[Lost Ark] 1620 Bard Voldis / Ivory Tower Hard All Gates Week 2

Week 2 Ivory Tower Hard run, all gates. Run was pretty clean based on number of pulls. Did make a few mistakes though that will need to be cleaned up. Split MVPs with the god himself ‪@Blazespot‬.

I usually run a spec ring, but for newer content full swift is slightly more comfortable, both in cooldowns and attack speed.

Bard's utility (or rather, lack thereof) in typical builds is very pronounced here. Each gate has its own limitations with skill builds in particular.

Gate 1 isn't particularly utility heavy. The typical build I go here is the classic Harp / Sonatina / Rhapsody build.

Gate 2 and 3 have slightly more emphasis on stagger, with the constant stagger checks of gate 2 and the cheeto mechanic of gate 3. I flex sound shock in for sonatina to retain 2 brands.

Gate 4 has the highest utility check between all of counter, stagger, and destruction. I choose to run sound shock solo as a solo brand (despite what you may think, it is decent enough), and use soundholic for stagger and buckshot for counter.
Buckshot provided a lot of value during prog week, but other players are getting better at countering, so moving forward it may be possible to drop it for another brand or rhapsody, depending on what the team needs.

Timeline
0:00 Gate 1
7:47 Gate 2
16:20 Gate 3
24:27 Gate 4
26:39 Gate 4 for real