You Spoony Guide! - A Troubadour's Libretto

For windower macros, how would the script look like if you wanted to do precast and aftercast?

So I was bored and decided to play around with ranges on String Horde Lullabies with String Skill builds.

-String Horde Lullaby has a max AoE range of 7.9.

-String Horde Lullaby II's range we can still buff at 99 through String skill gear.

At 99 base skill of 373, we have a range of 3.9 on String Horde II.

Then I'm 99% positive that I've pinpointed that 405 String skill is required to bump this range up to 4.9.

Now I tried to go higher than this, but wasn't able to reach another tier even at 430 String Skill. However, I am much further than the possible max cap to String Skill, which I believe to be 461, including merits (which I don't have anymore since I stuck in Enhancing a while back >.< Unsure if I should change back now even after Embrava nerf...).

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So if anyone does have this stuff/merits and wants to try to reach the next tier which should hit 5.9~ then be my guest!! :D

In the end, it probably wouldn't be worth the inventory space but would be nice to know for reference.

While I really recommend learning SC because brd really benefits from it, you'd do something similar to this:



This is technically for rdm but back when I made this, I didn't have my brd alt ^^;

I'd recommend putting your instrument in precast as well as midcast.

I use a mix of Macc staves, and for song recast you'd probably want either Paean/Iaso cuffs, Shedir Turban, and Af3 legs.

After that, just fit as much macc/chr/skill etc as you can in the other slots.

And yes, they need to be equipped at/by the end of the cast.

A haste belt like, ninurta's sash, phasmida, phos, or Pya'ekue might be a more acceptable trade off.

is it possible to consistently dispel the NM Kurma (inside)? if so whats the minimum setup we need, right now ive not seen 1 of mine land.

also should we need/have support to land if so what??

Klimaform/Voidstorm if with the SCHs or GEO support with COR Magic acc roll if with the DDs?

or should we leave this to the RDM

is it possible to consistently dispel the NM Kurma (inside)? if so whats the minimum setup we need, right now ive not seen 1 of mine land.

also should we need/have support to land if so what??

Klimaform/Voidstorm if with the SCHs or GEO support with COR Magic acc roll if with the DDs?

or should we leave this to the RDM

is it possible to consistently dispel the NM Kurma (inside)? if so whats the minimum setup we need, right now ive not seen 1 of mine land.

also should we need/have support to land if so what??

Klimaform/Voidstorm if with the SCHs or GEO support with COR Magic acc roll if with the DDs?

or should we leave this to the RDM

Just a update on this post with my findings, even with a Ghorn95 and the best gear you will struggle, however Ghorn99 makes a huge difference with getting Finale to land, so if you don't have a Ghorn99 and someone else does in your alliance, don't even bother attempting to finale the mob unless you have Troubadour up as you'll just be making the other bards job harder.

I don't know about lesser than 99 Ghorn accuracy on Kurma, but after the recent updates my Finale has been landing whenever I beat the rdm to it. I also land Light or Dark Threnody with about 20% acc to help either one of us being more successful.

The recent update brought a lot of small changes for brd, nothing all that noteworthy for singing buffs and debuffs. There is however a sizable list of gear to contribute to MDT/MDB/Magic Evasion sets. And there are a few new alternative pieces for Cure sets, especially with the haste for recast. I put this set together

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Giving capped potency before the Arka IV is even finished, 26% haste, -45 enmity, 7% Fast cast, 59 MND, 18 Healing Magic skill. I'm sure you can fit more fast cast into it if -enmity isn't an issue.

The only other pieces worth mentioning are;
Gendewitha gages
as the Fast cast value is currently unknown, and if they are not more than 3% Marduk's will remain best in slot.

soothsayer staff
lehbrailg +1
the Macc on these will be phenominal for Debuffs. I am a bit puzzled by the stats for these. The lehbrailg loses MAB for Magic dmg and basically becomes the same base staff as the soothsayer when +1. Will have to see what augment potential the Lehbrailg +1 will recieve.