Aegis Aria
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Description
- Skill Type
- Area buff
- Effect
- Bard song (0.1% stronger per CHA), +200 + 100 × (rank − 1) ward, 12s
Rank 1. Base values before equipment and attribute bonuses.
Lvl 1
16 yd range
3.5s cast
A protective aria that grants nearby party members a ward capable of absorbing up to 200 damage.
Requirements
- Veteran Points Already Spent
- 50
- Required Weapon
- Instrument
Cost & Timing
- Cast Time
- 3.5s
- Range
- 16 yd
Spell Casting Haste shortens the cast by its percentage, so 20% Spell Casting Haste turns the 3.5s cast into 2.8s.
Buff/Debuff Effects
Does not stack with Bone Aegis, Elderwood Aegis, Protection of the Forest or Rune Ward. The newest one replaces the others. Exception: a mercenary's area buff skips anyone who already has one of these effects. How effects stack
- Duration
- 12s
- Ward
- 200 + 100 × (rank − 1)
Rank Scaling
| Rank | Ward |
|---|---|
| 1 | +200 |
| 2 | +300 |
| 3 | +400 |
| 4 | +500 |
| 5 | +600 |
Mechanics
Song Aura
Your selected song repeats automatically, renewing its duration after each cast. Spell Casting Haste speeds up these casts. The song lasts 12s after its last cast, even when you switch songs. Lingering Melody lengthens this duration.
Active Song Limit
A Bard sustains two songs by default (the Active Songs value in your character window). Starting another song at the limit ends the song you renewed longest ago. Learning Polyphony removes the limit. See Bard Songs.
Song Category: Ward
Another Ward song cannot replace this song while it is active.
Non-song Ward buffs and this song replace each other, regardless of capacity.
See Bard Songs.
Song Scaling
Bard
- Song power
- 100% + 0.1% per point of Charisma above 0, at most 300%
- Skill Ward
- 200 at rank 1, +100 per rank (600 at rank 5)
- Ward
- Skill Ward × Song power,
Example ,rank 5,100 Charisma
660 Ward
Song power: 100% + 10% × 1 = 110%
Skill Ward: 200 + 100 × (5 − 1) = 600
Ward: 600 × 110% = 660,
Rounded means to the nearest whole number. Exact halves go to the even number, so 2.5 becomes 2.
Songs scale with Charisma, not Wisdom or Intelligence.