Category:SkillsCategory:PvMCategory:Bard
Description
- The Discordance skill allows bards to 'Discord' creatures, causing them to deal reduced damage and amplify their damage taken from players and their allies. Players can also perform a Discordance 'Bard Song' by targeting themselves with the skill, which provides a bonus to damage resistance for themselves, their followers, and allies. A player's Discordance skill is capped by their Musicianship skill. Discordance requires an instrument in the player's backpack.
Summary
- Using the Discordance skill greatly reduces the stats of the creature targeted
- Players may Discord multiple creatures simultaneously
- Skill usage cooldown is 5 seconds on both success and failure, upon skill usage 5 seconds cooldown also applies to provocation and peacemaking.
- The Bard Codex will greatly enhance the Discordance skill
More Details
- A player's base Discordance skill is capped by their Musicianship skill (i.e. a player with 50 Discordance and 25 Musicianship is considered to have 25 Discordance)
- A player's Effective Discordance Skill is their (Discordance Skill + Instrument Skill Bonuses + Applicable Instrument Slayer Bonuses + Supplemental Skill Bonuses + Lyric Aspect Armor Bonus)
- Players can increase their Effective Discordance Skill through use of the Forensic Eval and Tracking skill, which is listed in the above formula as "Supplemental Skill Bonuses" (see Forensic Eval and Tracking Skill entries for more info)
- A player's total bonuses to Effective Discordance coming from Instruments, Supplemental Skill Bonuses, or Lyric Aspect Armor cannot be higher than their Musicianship skill (i.e. a player with 25 Musicianship could only gain up 25 points of Effective Discordance from their Instruments, Supplemental Skills, or Lyric Aspect Armor)
- Chance for skillgain is doubled on a successful Discordance check
- Discord effect duration is ((60 seconds - (Creature Difficulty Value)) * (Effective Barding Skill / 100)) with a minimum duration of 15 * (Musicianship Skill / 100) seconds
- Players attempting to use Discordance on a creature that is currently already Provoked or Pacified will gain an effective Barding skill bonus of 25 on the Discordance attempt
- The Minimum Success Chance for any Barding activity is (33% * (Effective Barding Skill / 100))
Barding Songs
The Barding Songs are:
- Casting a Barding Song has a 10 second cooldown that is independent of normal bard skill usage
- All AoE Barding Songs have a 15 minute duration
Discorded Creatures
- Discorded creatures take 25% increased damage from all sources. Bosses take increased damage from all sources related to their boss difficulty. An omni boss takes 10% increased damage for example.
- Discorded creatures suffer a 25% penalty to their damage dealt
- The effectiveness of the Discordance effects on creatures will now scale to be (Bard's Printed Discordance Skill / 120) % of normal Patch June 23,2023
- Discorded creatures that are Pacified or Provoked take an additional 15% increased damage from all sources
- Creatures that have been discorded will have a swirling animation effect around them and will display *discorded Xs* in the text above their head when doing AllNames, where X is the number of seconds until the discordance effect will end
Area Discordance
- When selecting a target for Discordance, players may target themselves to create an area discordance effect
- Area Discordance has the same cooldowns as a normal Discordance action
- Area Discordance makes an individual Discordance skill check against each non-tamed creatures within 8 tiles of the bard
- For each successful check, the creature is Discorded for 5 seconds
- Players cannot perform AoE Discordance or Peacemaking while in a guarded areas
Miscellaneous
- Discord effects against tamed creatures will always be at most 15 seconds
- Players attempting to use Discordance on a creature that is currently already Provoked or Pacified will gain an effective barding skill bonus of 25 on the Discordance attempt
- Provoked creatures do not suffer a penalty to their damage dealt by Discordance
- Provoked or Pacified creatures that are also Discorded taken an additional 15% damage from all sources (i.e. these creatures will take an additional 40% damage from all sources)