Crippling Refrain
Spell Bypasses Debuff ImmunityAppearance
Description
- Skill Type
- Area debuff
- Effect
- Bard song (0.1% stronger per CHA), −20 × rank AC, 20s
Rank 1. Base values before equipment and attribute bonuses.
Lvl 1
8 yd range
3.5s cast
A crushing refrain that reduces the AC of nearby enemies by 20.
Requirements
- Tier Limit
- 2 Tier 3 skills
- Class Skill Points Already Spent
- 30
- Prerequisite
- Polyphony Rank 1
- Required Weapon
- Instrument
Cost & Timing
- Cast Time
- 3.5s
- Range
- 8 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
- Duration
- 20s
- Armor Class
- −20 × rank
Rank Scaling
| Rank | Armor Class |
|---|---|
| 1 | −20 |
| 2 | −40 |
| 3 | −60 |
| 4 | −80 |
| 5 | −100 |
| 6 | −120 |
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 Scaling
Bard
- Song power
- 100% + 0.1% per point of Charisma above 0, at most 300%
- Skill Armor Class reduction
- 20 at rank 1, +20 per rank (120 at rank 6)
- Armor Class reduction
- Skill Armor Class reduction × Song power,
Example ,rank 6,100 Charisma
132 Armor Class reduction
Song power: 100% + 10% × 1 = 110%
Skill Armor Class reduction: 20 + 20 × (6 − 1) = 120
Armor Class reduction: 120 × 110% = 132,
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.
Resist Chance
Each point of the target's Magic Resist adds 0.05% to its chance to resist this debuff. Each 1% of the caster's Accuracy subtracts 1% from that chance. Each level the target is above the caster adds 0.5%, and each level below subtracts 0.5%, up to 10% either way. The chance stays between 0% and 90%. See resistance and avoidance.
Monsters whose pages list Immune to Debuffs are still affected, except bosses.
Resist Chance Reduction
Subtracts 30% from the target's chance to resist this skill.