Magical Secrets for Bard - What are your favourites?

[Ukrai]

Just interested to hear what other people are choosing for Magical Secrets, more specifically for Lore Bards at level 6.

I know Fireball is a common choice but what other inventive options have people been trying out?

[Spicy Camel]

Most obvious choice is non-concentration damage spells, as they are missing in bard spell list: fireball, lightning bolt, inflict wounds, guiding bolt, magic missle, to have something better then cantrips to cast while concentrating on that hypnotic pattern.

Or maybe you want to cover key spell of a class you don’t have in the group - bless, spike growth, call lightning, pass without a trace, spirit guardians, haste, slow, counterspell.

[Ommamar]

Greater invisibility is another good option, although I like it on another caster so you can still use spirit guardian. That combination is ridiculously over powered it does need two concentration pools though.

[Frostfeather]

Usually Bless. It's such an incredible shame that Bards don't just get the spell to begin with.

And usually also Fireball, but sometimes Pass Without Trace or Spike Growth. I would love to take something less overpowered and more thematic, but Bards in Solasta are fairly disappointing overall... they really need an op spell choice or two to partially make up for their shortcomings.

Really, the best choice is to just respec your Bard into a Sorcerer.