Some BRD Mechanics Testing

[KaiSunstrider]

What lvl and types of mobs are you doing these tests on? I ask because as you know Foe Req decreases elemental resistance by 10%, unlike people whom see that as 10% increase to elemental damage. Mobs that already have little to no elemental resistance will become virtually unaffected by FR. if they say have 100 fire resist then FR would reduce them to 90 resist which may be completely negligible. On the other hand coil bosses may have much higher resistances causing FR to have much more of an effect. For instance, these numbers again are arbitrary, a lvl 53 coil boss could have 1000 which would reduce him to 900 elemental resist resulting in a higher difference. Ill do some testing tonight in coil on high level bosses.

[Viridiana]

I initially tested Windbiter on the level 48 Garleans north of Vesper Bay. I then did a more comprehensive test (including Windbiter confirmation) on the Hippocerfs in eastern Mor Dhona. I also checked my damage on the Lightning Elementals, Lake Serpents, and Gigas in the area, noting no changes (only tested Requiem on the Elementals, but all damage numbers stayed the same regardless of enemy).

Edit:

I believe requiem does not affect any arcanist spells. It seems to be ONLY for BLMs, which is such an oddly specific case.

It does seem odd, which I suspect is why the idea that BRD gets a boost was so popular. I've heard claims that SMN does as well; needless to say, I doubt that's the case. I'll test to confirm when I get a chance.

[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...

[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.

[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.