Bards had a lot of req increases but not a lot of interesting things. Here are the highlights:

* You need a bit more Performing now. This should be pretty easy.
* You will ultimately have a Bardic Lore req.
* Your lore reqs have been increased across the board. Note that this basically comprises of Appraisal, Scholarship, Tactics, and crafting skills.
* Your Tactics req is a 'Soft req'. As noted in the big post, a 'soft req' means that it can still count toward your Nth Lore.
* Note that this means that Tactics needs to be one of your lores (or at least it will automatically do the job of 3rd Lore).
* Your survival reqs got condensed and increased a bit. No surprise there, as that's what happened to basically all survival reqs.
* Your magic reqs went up, particularly because of the deep integration of bard spells into M3.
* Your weapon reqs went up a little bit too, because it's a secondary skillset.

Restricted Skills

None

Req	1-10	11-30	31-70	71-100	101-150
1st Armor	2	2	2	3	3
1st Weapon	3	3	4	4	5
2nd Weapon	2	3	3	4	4
Parry	2	3	3	4	5
1st Magic	3	3	4	4	5
2nd Magic	2	2	3	4	5
3rd Magic	2	2	3	3	4
4th Magic	1	2	2	3	4
5th Magic	0	0	2	3	3
1st Survival	1	2	2	3	4
2nd Survival	1	1	2	2	3
3rd Survival	1	1	1	2	2
4th Survival	1	1	1	2	2
1st Lore	3	3	4	4	5
2nd Lore	3	3	3	4	5
3rd Lore	2	2	3	3	4
Performing	4	4	5	5	6
Tactics	2	3	3	4	5

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