Foe's Requiem affects BRD DPS?

I believe it does boost all ninjutsu except maybe shuriken since the other ninjutsu are all magic damage. But only affects BLM SMN SCH WHM spells.

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Originally Posted by Volker_Mateus

I believe it does boost all ninjutsu except maybe shuriken since the other ninjutsu are all magic damage. But only affects BLM SMN SCH WHM spells.

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Yes, Fuma Shuriken is physical damage and is not boosted by Foe's.

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Originally Posted by Osmond

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As the others said, there's basically no reason not to play Foe Requiem unless you know you'll need Paeon. It drives me crazy as a healer to watch a BRD sit on their MP while I DPS.

When I play BRD for a dungeon run, I'll throw up Foe as a bonus for the healer even if no other casters or NIN are in the party. If the healer is obviously slacking and refuses to DPS when they should, I give up singing it.

As Cynfael said, when I WHM (which is my main), if a bard puts up requiem during trash pulls especially, they'll get my commendation. On many trash pack pulls, my Holy damage often is the top dps on those mobs, and requiem is really helpful in bumping up that damage. When I go on bard, for whatever reason, I also put up foes if I see the healer is comfortable dps-ing. If they aren't quite comfortable, and we have no mage dps, then I will leave it off and use whatever other songs are appropriate/needed. I think the OP case was just one of maybe not knowing that requiem increases a 'dps healer's' damage a bit ^^

If you are curious about what abilities are physical/magical plant yourself in front of a dummy and test. Bring a dragoon for Disembowel to investigate what counts as piercing. Bard abilities are piercing, physical, physical(fire) and piercing (wind). All of these are physical forms of damage and therefore receive no benefit from Foe's Requiem because it reduces enemy magical resistance by 10%. You'd be surprised by some abilities such as Shadowflare which count as physical and not magical. Bard does not receive any benefit, however the boost to healer damage output is helpful. Foe's doesn't reduce the bard's damage, so there is no reason not to play it unless TP is needed.