Category:Songs

Overview

Songs make up a general magic category available only to bard. Unlike other types of magic, there are two components that together determine the skill value for a song's effectiveness - singing skill and instrument skill. There are two different instrument skills--wind and string--and the type used in the calculation is that of the currently equipped instrument. The combined singing and equipped instrument skill is typically referred to as "combined skill" and is the value used to determine the potency and accuracy of bard songs. It is not entirely clear how song Magic Accuracy is calculated, although it depends on CHR and combined skill multiplied by a scaling factor.

Additionally, unlike other types of magic, songs cannot be interrupted by being struck by an enemy's attack while casting, so spell interruption is not necessary while singing/playing a song.

There are two types of bard songs - party-targeted buffing songs and enemy-targeted debuffing songs. By default, with an instrument equipped, a Bard can place two active buffing songs on party members; any additional casted songs will overwrite the songs with the shortest remaining duration. Without an instrument equipped (e.g. with bard as a sub job), the number of buffing songs a player can cast is limited to one song.

The same song cannot be reapplied until its current remaining duration is less than its base (unenhanced) duration. Unique songs will always overwrite a currently active song, but they will only overwrite the song with the lowest remaining duration. There are 12 shared 'slots' for songs and Phantom Rolls. After the maximum is reached,new buffs will remove old ones in order of application.

Job Ratings

Song List

• See the Bard page for full list of Songs sorted by usable level.

Equipment Bonuses

Bard song bonuses on equipment fall into several categories:

• Skill bonuses: Directly adds to the player's singing, wind instrument, or string instrument skill (see tables below)
• Song spellcasting time reduction: Reduces casting time of all songs by the percentage listed; stacks with other forms of casting time reduction (see table below)
• Song recast delay reduction: Reduces base recast time of all songs by the number of seconds listed; stacks with other forms of recast delay reduction (see table below)

+Skill

Level	Name	Slot	Jobs	String	Wind	Singing
30	Song Belt	Ear	All	0	0	5 (BRD Sub)
35	String Earring	Ear	All	3	0	0
35	Wind Earring	Ear	All	0	3	0
35	Singing Earring	Ear	All	0	0	3
40	Oliphant	Instrument	BRD	0	3 (Conquest)	0
40	Chanter's Staff	Weapon	WAR/MNK/WHM/BLM/RDM/BST/BRD/SMN/SCH	0	0	4
58	Choral Justacorps	Body	BRD	3	0	0
60	Choral Cuffs	Hands	BRD	0	0	5
62	Minstrel's Coat	Body	MNK/WHM/RDM/THF/PLD/BST/BRD/DRG/SMN/BLU/COR/PUP/DNC	3	3	0
65	String Torque	Neck	All	7	0	0
65	Wind Torque	Neck	All	0	7	0
70	Taillifer's Dagger	Weapon	WAR/RDM/THF/BST/BRD/RNG/NIN/COR/DNC	3	0	0
71	Bard's Slippers	Feet	BRD	3	0	0
72	Bard's Roundlet	Head	BRD	0	0	5
73	Bard's Cuffs	Hands	BRD	0	3	0
73	Demon Helm	Head	BLM/DRK/BRD	0	0	5
73	Demon Helm +1	Head	BLM/DRK/BRD	0	0	6
74	Choral Justacorps +1	Body	BRD	6	0	0
74	Choral Cuffs +1	Hands	BRD	0	0	10
74	Choral Cannions +1	Legs	BRD	0	8	0
75	Astute Cape	Back	All	0	0	5
75	Musical Earring	Ear	BRD	0	5	5
75	Bard's Slippers +1	Feet	BRD	3	0	0
75	Bard's Cuffs +1	Hands	BRD	0	5	0
75	Bard's Roundlet +1	Head	BRD	0	0	5
75	Gjallerhorn	Instrument	BRD	0	10	10

Song Casting Time Reduction

Level	Name	Slot	Jobs	Reduction
50	Minstrel's Ring (latent effect)	Ring	BRD	-25%
72	Sha'ir Manteel	Body	BRD	-12%
72	Sheikh Manteel	Body	BRD	-13%

Song Recast Delay Reduction

Level	Name	Slot	Jobs	Reduction
72	Sha'ir Gauges	Hands	BRD	2
72	Sheikh Gauges	Hands	BRD	4