Some BRD Mechanics Testing

[Viridiana]

Foe req does boost Holy damage.

That's. . .weird. Glad I have a friend who's 50 everything and hopefully won't mind testing. . .

[RyuDragnier]

It doesn't effect Windbiter or Flaming Arrow? That's beyond odd, considering both are elemental attacks. Either it's working as intended, which means it's useless unless you have a BLM in the group, or it's currently bugging out, and supposed to work with those two skills. I'm hoping for the latter, just because otherwise it means all our songs are useless outside of very specific circumstances.

[Dire]

I tested it a few days ago and came to the same conclusion: Foe Requiem has no effect whatsoever on anything Bard. Lame but there you have it.

[Thotor]

It only affects BLM and WHM (not that important for WHM).
Arcanist damage is neutral.

[Starkbeaumont]

strange. my test today gave different results. it effected Stone(II) damage, but not holy. it worked for anything blm beside thunder dot (forgot to test scathe). and it also effected smn dots, fester and garuda-egi (forgot about ruin and ifrit though) ...

[Luso]

I usually use Foe Requiem when there are blackmages in my party. My blackmage friend notices a difference in his damages with foe requiem on. I'll try to get some specific numbers the next time I run a dungeon with them.

Edit:
I did some more testing with all the mage classes. Using Foe Requiem effectiviely can turn Summoner, Blackmage, Whitemage, and Scholar into beasts. (Essentially increasing all their spell damage by +(15%-30%) (battle shout+Foe Requiem).

I've been testing Foe Requiem with all the casters and it has a significant effect on their spells. The tool tip on Foe Requiem is wrong and it still does boost non-elemental [un-aspected] spells (couple spells excluded). The downside is, Bard spells and other melee spells that say they have elemental damage are not effected by Foe Requiem.

[Starkbeaumont]

small update: it effects Thunder DoT, didn't watch carefully enough first time. It does effect Scathe and Ruin. It doesn't effect Ifrit-Egi (cause he is a melee). Only thing I don't understand is Holy (unless something went wrong in my test). But ya conclusion is it effects basicly every offensive magic spell. Bad skill description is bad...

[Cabalabob]

Couple questions about BRD

Do foe requiem's stack? As in if you have 2 BRD's using it will you get double the effect?

@ starkveaumont what about other summons? And for ifrit (and the other summons I guess) what about the elemental burst damage moves? Like inferno.

[Starkbeaumont]

yep, Enkindle moves are effected as well. on normal stuff, it doesn't seem to do anything for titan and ifrit egi. as already mentioned they are considered physical damage

[ShinryuReishiki]

But ya conclusion is it effects basicly every offensive magic spell. Bad skill description is bad...

That's pretty much it: the English description is incorrect. The Japanese description has "10% reduction to magic resistance" rather than elemental.