[The Alpha Bat]

Yes, I remember this being a concern before even bard dropped. Dev managed to avoid this pitfall with bard/dancer/performer by only having a few things that scaled with Sound ATK. I guess it slipped his mind when designing dark bard.

Fully agreed with the freedom of expression sentiment; the thought of a class not working well with certain races leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
There's quite a few ways to remedy it in this specific case, off the top of my head:

1. A trait that allows corrupted to build SAN without the negative effect to their racials, as mentioned

2. Creation of a star sign for Sound, allowing for Luminary Element Sound, also mentioned

3. Replacing the Sound ATK scaling on dark bard with different scaling(s)

4. A bard or dark bard passive that allows a different method of stacking Sound ATK. (Would obviously have to not work alongside Sound ATK from SAN/Theno racial to avoid the opposite issue of every other race being too good with dark bard)

5. Sound ATK being disconnected from the SAN attribute, instead being raised elsewhere (Theno would also have to be touched upon)

6. Corrupted races no longer being negatively impacted by SAN at all, instead weakening/disabling their racials via a different method, likely a trait.


These are general ideas rather than specific ones because I can't be assed to fix all dark bard's problems myself. Everyone has my express permission to expand upon these methods with their own ideas. You don't even have to credit me. You're welcome.