Inspiring Crescendo
SpellAppearance
Description
- Skill Type
- Area buff
- Effect
- Bard song (0.1% stronger per CHA), +2% + 1% × (rank − 1) crit, 20s
Rank 1. Base values before equipment and attribute bonuses.
Lvl 1
16 yd range
3.5s cast
A rising crescendo that increases Critical Chance of nearby party members by 2%.
Requirements
- Class Skill Points Already Spent
- 42
- 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
- Duration
- 20s
- Critical Strike
- 2% + 1% × (rank − 1)
Rank Scaling
| Rank | Critical Strike |
|---|---|
| 1 | +2% |
| 2 | +3% |
| 3 | +4% |
| 4 | +5% |
| 5 | +6% |
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 Critical Strike
- 2 percentage points at rank 1, +1 per rank (6 at rank 5)
- Critical Strike
- Skill Critical Strike × Song power
Example ,rank 5,100 Charisma
6.6 percentage points of Critical Strike
Song power: 100% + 10% × 1 = 110%
Skill Critical Strike: 2 + 1 × (5 − 1) = 6 percentage points
Critical Strike: 6 percentage points × 110% = 6.6 percentage points
Songs scale with Charisma, not Wisdom or Intelligence.
Critical Strike
Adds 6% to the affected character's Critical Strike at rank 5, before Charisma scaling. Total Critical Strike cannot exceed 70%. See critical hits for the extra damage.