Discordance

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Music may soothe the savage beast, but playing a few clashing notes will weaken even the strongest of creatures.

Using

To discord a creature you:

  • Click the blue gem next to the skill on your skill list.
  • Click on the creature you wish to discord.

If successful, your target will lose a percentage of its skills and stats. The percentage lost is dependant on your Discordance skill. For instance, at 50.0 skill, the target loses 10% from all stats and skills; and at 100.0 skill the target loses 20% from all stats and skills. Once the effect wears off, the target's skill and stats will return to normal. (Does not affect player characters.)

Range

The base range of all bard abilities is 8 tiles, with each 15 points of skill in the ability being used increasing this range by one tile. Bards must be within this range of the target to use the ability. Furthermore, the bard must remain within this range or the ability's effect ends.

Continuation

Once Discordance has been used on a target, the bard must remain alive, visible, and within range of the target or the effect ends. Regarding creatures with “Dragon AI” (such as daemons, drakes, hellhounds, nightmares, and, of course, dragons): if at any point the bard moves while using any barding song, that may compel the creature to retarget on the moving character.

Training

Discordance uses the same success/failure calcuation formula as Provocation, so training methods are identical in terms of what creatures to discord at what level. You can train Discordance, as well as all bardic skills, up to 40 in New Haven, the sextant providing an approximative location at 86 S 146 E.

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disco is amazingly fast to train, simply because ye need only one target and it refreshes very fast (2 seconds, opposed to provo's 10 seconds).

in despise ye can first do a normal ogre from the safe ledge, then an ogre lord and then ye have to find a paragon ogre, just keep on discording the same critter over and over and ye be done in no time, no need to go invis or whatever to break it, ye will gain on all failed attempts, and not use a use on a succes once it is discorded.

disco is also amazingly powerfull, you will decrease all of a creatures skills and resistances by your dicordance skill/5. this means, they have a lower chance to hit you (their wrestling just went down) you/ your pets/ your partymembers will do a lot more damage (especially notable on high resist creatures, ye wont notice it on a mongbat or orc or so) and as a result of lowering its skills, you will also lower their barding difficulty (thou that result is pretty small, still, its there). with high enough skill, you can disco bosses and there it really shines, even thou their barding diff of 160 or even --- (meaning invulnerable to peace and provo actually) will negate 50% of yer disco effect, yer 14% decrease in skills and resists is the difference between a hard fight and a pushover, on thier resists it is often 50% more damage done if not more (they often have around 70 resists, so the difference between 70 resist and 56 resist is huge). discording a boss is not easy thou, at 130 disco, 120 music and except instruments i manage it at about 1 in 5 tries, but once done, it will stick around for a good while.