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{{quote|''spoony \SPOO-nee\, ''adjective'':<br />
1. Foolish; silly; excessively sentimental.<br />
2. Foolishly or sentimentally in love.''|'''Dictionary.com'''}}
 
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** Scholars also double the effectiveness of any items that they use. This includes the items that give you a free cast of high-level offensive magic like Blizzaga. Pair them up with a Thief (to ensure a steady supply of items) and you've got a small nuke with no reliance on MP.
** A number of the more useless jobs in ''III'' had their Spoony Bard status almost completely reversed in the DS remake, turning into [[Lethal Joke Character|Lethal Joke Characters]] if you get enough job levels in them. Particular notes are the aforementioned Scholar (on top of the weapon effectiveness boost gets a lot of charges for low-levelled spells, and when dual-wielding the higher-leveled [[Throw the Book At Them|books]] can output insane damage given they're a support class) and the Geomancer (stick with the class for long enough and you'll start cursing when you get the rare high-damage single-target Shadowflare, because you hit the damage cap anyway).
* In the first ''~[[Baldur's Gate~]]'', the bard class was pretty much tragically underpowered compared to the others -- there was no good reason to choose a bard over a rogue. Things got better with the sequel and with [[Icewind Dale]].
** Bards are actually one of the easier classes to solo the first game with, thanks to the ability to use wands and backstab while invisible.
* Any of the Bards of the ''[[Romancing SaGa]]'' trilogy. {{spoiler|The first was actually the [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]] [[The Reveal|in disguise as the bard.]] The second one retold the tales of your empire at the start of the game, and had 5 important instruments needed to acquire a character class, and the last was recruitable and was pretty decent in all stats, only problem was that you could only ditch him after clearing one of the Abyss Lords.}}