Discordance

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
• Discorded 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))

Discordance Effect, Scaling, and Bonuses

• Using the discordance skill on a creature causes the Discorded debuff on the creature.
• The Discorded debuff increases damage taken from all sources by 25%, and reduces damage done by 25%.
  • The increased damage taken effect is a multiplicative damage bonus.
• The Discorded debuff scales with the bard's printed discordance by the following formula: (Bard's Printed Discordance Skill / 120) * 25 as %.
  • A bard with 80 discordance would generate a Discorded effect of 16% increased damage taken and reduced damage done.
• The Discorded debuff scales with boss difficulty, with a 50% effectiveness on Mini-bosses and 40% effectiveness on Bosses.
  • A bard with 120 discordance would generate a Discordance effect of 10% on a boss.
  • A bard with 80 discordance would generate an effect of 6.4% on a boss.
• 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 while in a guarded area

Song of Discordance

• When targeting the ground, the bard plays the Song of Discordance, a Barding Song that buffs allies and followers.
• The Barding Songs are:

Barding Songs
Skill	Effect
Discordance	Provides a (5% * (Effective Barding Skill / 100)) Damage Resistance bonus to Players and their Followers
Peacemaking	Provides a (5% * (Effective Barding Skill / 100)) Healing Amounts Received Bonus to Players and their Followers
Provocation	Provides a (5% * (Effective Barding Skill / 100)) Damage Bonus to Players and their Followers
All AoE Barding Song Buffs durations are 15 minutes
Casting a Barding Song has a 10 second cooldown that is independent of normal bard skill usage

Miscellaneous

• Discorded effects against tamed creatures will always be at most 15 seconds
• Provoked creatures do not suffer a penalty to their damage from the Discorded effect
• If two bards use Discordance on the same boss, only the highest Discorded effect will apply

Training

Skill	Activity
0-50	Train from NPC
50-80	Use Discordance on creatures in the New Player Dungeon
80-120	Use Discordance on creatures at the Prevalia Zoo/Battletrainer