Discordance
Weakening Foes Through Music
Overview
Discordance is one of the three barding skills that allows you to weaken creatures through music. By playing discordant notes, you can reduce a target's stats and skills, making them significantly easier to defeat in combat.
As a support skill, Discordance excels at making dangerous enemies manageable for both solo players and groups. Combined with other barding skills, it forms the backbone of the powerful bard template.
Core Mechanics
Requirements
- • Musical Instrument: Must have in backpack
- • Musicianship: Must pass skill check first
- • Line of Sight: Required to target
- • Valid Target: NPCs only (no players)
Debuff Effect
Discord strength scales with skill level
- • GM Discord (100): -20% to all stats and skills
- • 80 Discord: -16% to all stats and skills
- • 60 Discord: -12% to all stats and skills
- • 40 Discord: -8% to all stats and skills
Range
Range increases with skill level
- • At 0 skill: 8 tiles
- • At 50 skill: 11 tiles
- • At 100 skill: 14 tiles
Success Formulas
Difficulty Calculation
The difficulty of discording a creature is based on its total power:
Difficulty based on creature's overall power level
- • +100 difficulty: Magery creatures, Fire breathers, Poison immune
- • +20 per level: Poisonous creatures
- • -5 difficulty: Exceptional instruments
- • -10 difficulty: Matching slayer instruments
Musicianship Bonus
Having Musicianship above GM provides a difficulty reduction:
If Musicianship > 100: Difficulty -= (Music - 100) * 0.5
Discord Effects
Duration & Maintenance
- • Duration: Indefinite while maintained
- • Range Check: Every 1.25 seconds
- • Visibility: Bard must remain unhidden
- • Grace Period: 15 seconds if conditions lost
- • Visual: Blue sparkles every 1.25 seconds
Affected Attributes
Stats Reduced:
- • Strength
- • Intelligence
- • Dexterity
Skills Reduced:
- • All combat skills
- • Magic resistance
- • All other skills > 0
Training Guide
Skill Progression
| Skill Range | Training Method | Target Suggestions |
|---|---|---|
| 0-30 | NPC Training | Bard Guildmaster |
| 30-50 | Weak Creatures | Animals, Mongbats |
| 50-70 | Medium Creatures | Orcs, Ettins |
| 70-85 | Strong Creatures | Ogre Lords, Cyclopeans |
| 85-100 | Very Strong | Dragons, Daemons |
Training Tips
- • Gain Rate: Bard skills gain 5x slower than normal
- • Stats: Focus on Intelligence and Dexterity
- • Instruments: Keep multiple instruments (they break)
- • Cooldown: 12-second delay between attempts
- • Safe Spots: Train from behind obstacles when possible
Character Templates
Pure Bard
- • 100 Musicianship
- • 100 Discordance
- • 100 Provocation
- • 100 Peacemaking
- • 100 Magery
- • 100 Meditation
- • 100 Evaluate Intelligence
Discord Tamer
- • 100 Animal Taming
- • 100 Animal Lore
- • 100 Veterinary
- • 100 Musicianship
- • 100 Discordance
- • 100 Magery
- • 100 Meditation
Advanced Tips
Combat Strategies
- • Stack with Provocation: Discord target first, then provoke onto it for easier kills
- • Boss Fights: Discord reduces boss damage output significantly
- • Champion Spawns: Essential for weakening champion spawn bosses
- • PvM Groups: Discord high-priority targets for the tank
- • Solo Play: Discord + summons/pets makes tough enemies manageable
Important Notes
- • Immune Creatures: Some creatures are bard-immune
- • Pet Discord: Can discord other players' pets if flagged
- • Revealing: Using discordance reveals you from hiding
- • Interruption: Taking damage can interrupt the attempt
- • Multiple Bards: Cannot stack discord on same target