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 Equipment

Level	Name	Slot	String	Wind	Sing
30	Song Belt	Ear	0	0	5 BRD Sub
35	String Earring	Ear	3	0	0
35	Wind Earring	Ear	0	3	0
35	Singing Earring	Ear	0	0	3
40	Oliphant	Instrument	0	3 (Conquest)	0
40	Chanter's Staff	Weapon	0	0	4
58	Choral Justacorps	Body	3	0	0
60	Choral Cuffs	Hands	0	0	5
62	Minstrel's Coat	Body	3	3	0
65	String Torque	Neck	7	0	0
65	Wind Torque	Neck	0	7	0
70	Taillifer's Dagger	Weapon	3	0	0
71	Bard's Slippers	Feet	3	0	0
72	Bard's Roundlet	Head	0	0	5
73	Bard's Cuffs	Hands	0	3	0
73	Demon Helm	Head	0	0	5
73	Demon Helm +1	Head	0	0	6
74	Choral Justacorps +1	Body	6	0	0
74	Choral Cuffs +1	Hands	0	0	10
74	Choral Cannions +1	Legs	0	8	0
75	Astute Cape	Back	0	0	5
75	Musical Earring	Ear	0	5	5
75	Bard's Slippers +1	Feet	3	0	0
75	Bard's Cuffs +1	Hands	0	5	0
75	Bard's Roundlet +1	Head	0	0	5
75	Gjallerhorn	Instrument	0	10	10

Song Casting Time Reduction

Level	Name	Slot	Jobs	Cast Time
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