Anthem of Focus
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Description
- Skill Type
- Area buff
- Effect
- Bard song (0.1% stronger per CHA), +2% × rank accuracy, 20s
Rank 1. Base values before equipment and attribute bonuses.
Lvl 1
16 yd range
3.5s cast
A precise anthem that increases Accuracy of nearby party members by 2%.
Requirements
- Tier Limit
- 2 Tier 1 skills
- Class Skill Points Already Spent
- 10
- 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 Mercenary Anthem of Focus. 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
- 20s
- Accuracy
- 2% × rank
Rank Scaling
| Rank | Accuracy |
|---|---|
| 1 | +2% |
| 2 | +4% |
| 3 | +6% |
| 4 | +8% |
| 5 | +10% |
Mechanics
Song Aura
Your selected song repeats automatically, renewing its duration after each cast. Spell Casting Haste speeds up these casts. The song lasts 20s 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: Bard Focus Song
A target keeps one song of each category, including songs from other Bards and Bard mercenaries. A stronger song replaces a song in the same category. At equal strength, the song already active stays.
Strength is the sum of the song's movement speed, Attack Power, Spell Power, Haste, Spell Casting Haste and Accuracy bonuses. All except movement speed include the singer's Charisma scaling.
See Bard Songs.
Song Scaling
Bard
- Song power
- 100% + 0.1% per point of Charisma above 0, at most 300%
- Skill Accuracy
- 2 percentage points at rank 1, +2 per rank (10 at rank 5)
- Accuracy
- Skill Accuracy × Song power
Example ,rank 5,100 Charisma
11 percentage points of Accuracy
Song power: 100% + 10% × 1 = 110%
Skill Accuracy: 2 + 2 × (5 − 1) = 10 percentage points
Accuracy: 10 percentage points × 110% = 11 percentage points
Songs scale with Charisma, not Wisdom or Intelligence.
Accuracy
Adds 10% to the affected character's Accuracy at rank 5, before Charisma scaling. This subtracts the same amount from the chance that its attacks and debuffs are blocked or resisted. Total Accuracy is limited to a value between -50% and 100%. See resistance and avoidance for each roll's limits.