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Haven't done extensive parsing or anything, but Foe's Requiem (-10% elemental resistance) is definitely not a 10% damage increase to a bard's elemental damage abilities. Testing it out on target dummies I'd say it's no more than a 1-2 damage per tick increase for Flaming Arrow and Windbite, if that (really, it wasn't noticeable at all over the normal damage variation per tick and the max damage per tick didn't seem to increase at all). Of course, it's possible that target dummies have no elemental resistance, in which case this form of testing would be flawed.
Requiem decreases magical resistance, not elemental. As such, it does absolutely nothing for our (bard) skills like flame arrow and windbite - those are considered to be physical skills despite dealing elemental damage. Requiem does however buff all (even non-elemental) magical attacks - i.e. SMN and BLM benefit from it.