Howdy! Here's some love for bards :)
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Fix the range variations for effects from songs when using stringed instruments.
We are looking into addressing this.
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Make it so a songs effect area is focused on the party member targeted instead of the bard.
It was set to focus on the bard since it is the same concept as white mage’s bar-spells. Since songs have the advantage that they cannot be interrupted by enemy attacks, we plan to leave it as it is for now and allow you to decide the area of effect by your placement.
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Make it so song effects also influence by your stats.
Since song effects increase with skill, we have no plans of making it so stats influence it as well.
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Increase wind/string/singing skill to A.
In the case of songs, they are based on the combination of instrument skill + singing skill, so it is quite different from skills that rely on just a single skill. Due to this, if there is a necessity to adjust accuracy, instead of adjusting skill ranks, we are considering adjusting the calculation of the accuracy rates themselves.
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Revamp the resist rate of requiem.
The development team would definitely like to do something about this and are planning to revamp it.
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Reduce the recast time on Pianissimo and Tenuto.
Since the amount of gear that reduces song recast time has increased, we would like to make adjustments to go along with this.
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Make it possible to use Pianissimo and Tenuto at the same time.
Unfortunately, since this would require us to totally remake and rebalance Pianissimo and Tenuto this is a difficult thing to do.
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Revamp the stats on songs that enhance resistances to status ailments.
It’s true that when compared to the benefits other songs provide, it’s pretty hard to prioritize these songs, so we would like to do something about it.
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Make Etude/Prelude an AoE effect.
We will look into this. In regards to Prelude though, depending on the number of party members that have ranged attacks, it might get pretty crazy having to use Pianissimo each time. Is that going to be a problem?
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Make Adventurer’s Dirge an AoE effect.
We would like to look into this along with the merit point revamps.
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Will Massacre Elegy be added?
We have plans to. However, when considering the stats, we are planning to make it so this isn’t a song that can be used by just anyone.
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Add a song that enhances magical accuracy.
Since you can already enhance your magical accuracy through the use of a lot of equipment, we are thinking it would be more beneficial to give party members a different kind of song effect.
(For example, perhaps a song that reduces an enemy’s magical defense, etc.)
Also in response to your feedback about the seeming lack of power of Gjallarhorn, the development team mentioned that there is a difference in song accuracy between Gjallarhorn and Daurdabla, and when casting songs on enemies, Gjallarhorn wins out. During the next version update it will also be possible to further enhance the Gjallarhorn.