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    Quote Originally Posted by Nyarlko View Post
    I am trying to figure out why Ballad has a shorter duration than other songs.. As far as I know, ALL buff songs have a base duration of 120sec. The maximum amount of Song+1 (bgwiki says its +8 currently) should be the same across March/Minuet/Ballad at least... The only commonly used buff exceptions to the current Song+8 limit would be Madrigal due to Ambuscade cape, no? Yes, Mousai+1 set bumps a few songs up to +9, but HQs are wallet-killers and when was the last time you were called on for Mambo or Minne? :x
    I posted this early on:

    The only other solutions are to add more ballad + gear on slots that currently don't have all song or song duration on them. Adding more all song gear would just keep the ballad to other song gap the same. The current gap is 27% between acc/march compared to ballad duration.

    Or to increase the base duration of ballads by 27%, 32.4s.

    Ballad +2 on empyrean legs is not enough to bridge the gap between other songs. To match other songs legs would have to be Ballad +3.7

    I will elaborate further:

    Ballad max duration comes from Carnwenhan 60s(120 x 50%), Gjallarhorn 48s(120 x 40%), Moonbow whistle +1 36s(120x30%), Fili Hongreline +1 14.4(14 se tends to round down)(120x12%), Fili rhingrave +1 12s (120 x 10%), Brisoso sillpers +3 18s(120 x 15%)

    120 + 60 + 48 + 36 + 14 + 12 + 18 = 308s

    It is because other songs can use the duration legs inyanga shalwar +2 (120 x 17%), but for ballad potency you must use the Fili rhingrave +1. This results in a minimal 7% difference in duration to all songs, add in the fact that for marches you get an additional +1 from Fili manchettes +1, adds another 10% for a 17% difference for marches. Add in intarabus's cape(120 x 10%) and Fili calot +1 (120 x10%) for madrigal results in a 27% difference in duration from ballad.

    Basically the difference in duration comes down to the use of ballad legs or duration legs and the fact other slots have specific song +1 attributes
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    Quote Originally Posted by VoiceMemo View Post
    I posted this early on:

    The only other solutions are to add more ballad + gear on slots that currently don't have all song or song duration on them. Adding more all song gear would just keep the ballad to other song gap the same. The current gap is 27% between acc/march compared to ballad duration.

    Or to increase the base duration of ballads by 27%, 32.4s.

    Ballad +2 on empyrean legs is not enough to bridge the gap between other songs. To match other songs legs would have to be Ballad +3.7

    I will elaborate further:

    Ballad max duration comes from Carnwenhan 60s(120 x 50%), Gjallarhorn 48s(120 x 40%), Moonbow whistle +1 36s(120x30%), Fili Hongreline +1 14.4(14 se tends to round down)(120x12%), Fili rhingrave +1 12s (120 x 10%), Brisoso sillpers +3 18s(120 x 15%)

    120 + 60 + 48 + 36 + 14 + 12 + 18 = 308s

    It is because other songs can use the duration legs inyanga shalwar +2 (120 x 17%), but for ballad potency you must use the Fili rhingrave +1. This results in a minimal 7% difference in duration to all songs, add in the fact that for marches you get an additional +1 from Fili manchettes +1, adds another 10% for a 17% difference for marches. Add in intarabus's cape(120 x 10%) and Fili calot +1 (120 x10%) for madrigal results in a 27% difference in duration from ballad.

    Basically the difference in duration comes down to the use of ballad legs or duration legs and the fact other slots have specific song +1 attributes
    So really, what it comes down to is just a conflict between duration and ballad+1 on the legs. If it was in a different slot, then the only things ahead of it would be the few songs that can hit +9 currently. Could be solved by adding a ballad+ earring/ring, which should be simple enough to implement that it could actually happen. They could also add duration+15/+17 to the much expected Empyrean 119+2/+3 if/when it happens. I'd much prefer a bit of simplification for the 3-4 song model at the system level, but I'm not dumb enough to expect that to happen.

    Technically, couldn't you also sacrifice potency to match/exceed the difference right now? Marsyas would add an extra +10% above ghorn, and could use the Inyanga+2 pants for ballad as well. That should only leave Madrigal/Prelude ahead due to Ambuscade cape. FAR from an attractive option, but feels like the kind of "Working as Intended" response you'd probably get from the devs (if the devs were able to read this.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nyarlko View Post
    So really, what it comes down to is just a conflict between duration and ballad+1 on the legs. If it was in a different slot, then the only things ahead of it would be the few songs that can hit +9 currently. Could be solved by adding a ballad+ earring/ring, which should be simple enough to implement that it could actually happen. They could also add duration+15/+17 to the much expected Empyrean 119+2/+3 if/when it happens. I'd much prefer a bit of simplification for the 3-4 song model at the system level, but I'm not dumb enough to expect that to happen.

    Technically, couldn't you also sacrifice potency to match/exceed the difference right now? Marsyas would add an extra +10% above ghorn, and could use the Inyanga+2 pants for ballad as well. That should only leave Madrigal/Prelude ahead due to Ambuscade cape. FAR from an attractive option, but feels like the kind of "Working as Intended" response you'd probably get from the devs (if the devs were able to read this.)
    If you cared about duration only yes maysra and legs could be used but you're sacrificing +5 to ballad which if you are singing 3x ballad you're sacrificing 15mp/tic and only receiving 1+3, 2+3, 3+3 = 15mp/tic (if you have moonbow necklace +1) which is half the mp/tic(30m/tic) with gjallarhorn and legs. Imo sacrificing 50% of the potency is not worth the duration.

    Bard to be best is REMA, Relic = Quality of songs, Empy = Quantity of songs, and Mythic = Duration of songs, Aeonic = Special march, before Aeonic I called this the trifecta, quality, quantity and duration. Now it's trifecta + honor + neck +1.
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    If a whm has 2 marches 2 minuets with a duration to long for 2 ballads to stick (5min30+), why not just sing minuetx2(with no duration gear)>2 ballads?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Apennyworth View Post
    If a whm has 2 marches 2 minuets with a duration to long for 2 ballads to stick (5min30+), why not just sing minuetx2(with no duration gear)>2 ballads?
    So your solution is to gimp the minuet timers of dd's, so mages can get ballads? Why is the solution always to gimp rather than boost? Boosting the base duration of ballad would not hurt the all songs+ gear and would fix the current ballad overwrite issue.
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    If you redo the minuets on the mage only you aren't gimping anyone, but I was thinking about just not using the ambuscade legs for minuets tbh and use the empy legs instead, you can still reach 10 min songs so still full time Marcato and you get extra STR bonus from empy armor
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    Quote Originally Posted by VoiceMemo View Post
    For those who wish to discuss this further and not be condescending like Songen here is my example situation.

    party of 11, composed of

    party 1 Tank, Whm, Geo, brd, DD, DD
    party 2 DD, DD, DD, cor, whm

    Brd Soul voices and CC's NT
    Than pianissmo's ballad 3 on whm, cannot put any more ballads as ballad 2 would overwrite ballad 3

    Brd then swaps to 2nd party, sings madrigal, madrigal, attack, daurdabla song1, daurdabla song 2, honor, victory
    again pianissmo's ballad 3 on whm, and cannot put any more ballads as they would overwrite ballad 3

    NT has worn by now and it is still impossible to overwrite other songs with ballads and because of the amount of songs it is impossible to have whm stand away
    from the dd so that they do not receive the dd songs, as the max time for NT is 1 min 20 seconds with max NT merits you can get 15, maybe 16 songs off when you include swap time, pianissimo ja time and if swap is slow NT will not last long enough to get the 2nd party with full duration songs.

    This is why I think ballads should act like hastes where the higher one cannot be overwritten by a lower one, thereby forcing one of the other songs off. After NT wears soul voice and cc still have a good 1 min 40 seconds left. I would like to apply 3 ballads 2 marches on myself so I would have more mp refresh to assist healing/na'ing alliance.

    It makes no sense to reorder songs in this case to focus on ballads first as this is all about DD songs, dd's would benefit more from songs with longer duration, but to help support it would be good to have ballads on, but the song duration prevents this.

    The only other solutions are to add more ballad + gear on slots that currently don't have all song or song duration on them. Adding more all song gear would just keep the ballad to other song gap the same. The current gap is 27% between acc/march compared to ballad duration.

    Or to increase the base duration of ballads by 27%, 32.4s.

    Ballad +2 on empyrean legs is not enough to bridge the gap between other songs. To match other songs legs would have to be Ballad +3.7
    Rebump of my own post because I'm still seeing bards try to do 2x ballad when doing NT songs and overwriting ballad 3 with 2
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    Reforging of empy is the perfect solution to the 27% gap in the duration of ballad compared to acc/march. I suggest on the Empy +3 legs "ballad duration 27%" get added to them along with ballad +2. This would be a solution so that ballad would not be overpowered as it would have to be ballad 3.7 to equal the duration.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DarkValefor View Post
    If you redo the minuets on the mage only you aren't gimping anyone, but I was thinking about just not using the ambuscade legs for minuets tbh and use the empy legs instead, you can still reach 10 min songs so still full time Marcato and you get extra STR bonus from empy armor
    Takes a long time, but lets be honest... nobody needs more than 1 ballad.
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