New equipment for Bards

[Rekiem]

I don't know how to get those items yet but here it goes:

- Harlequin's Horn Lv70 Mazurka +2

- Military Harp Lv33 Finale +2

- Angel Lyre Lv71 Hymnus +2 Haste 2%

- Jongleur Dagger Lv42 DMG14 Delay 183 STR+2 CHR+1

- Taillefer's Dagger Lv70 DMG23 Delay 187 Accuracy-1 String instrument skill +3

- Mighty Knife Lv74 DMG 24 Delay 200 AGI+1 CHR+1
On Windsdays: [Wind]+15 DMG:31

A couple more items were released in the patch but those are the one that caught most of my attention.
You can check out http://mysterytour.web.infoseek.co.j.../us/index.html for all the details.

[Kweh]

- Military Harp Lv33 Finale +2

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[hasbean]

Pretty cool stuff ^^

Wonder if Hymnus gives back more exp or something. Also wonder if Mazurka is gonna be faster!

Wonder if it's gonna be murder hard to get this stuff ; ;


Saw the update equipment section. I guess bards get shields now ^^b

[Laehn]

There's an elegant shield that id like to get!

Lvl 40 chr+1 mp+6 def 1

Its nothing fabulous, but something to fill that slot!

My guess for hymnus+2 would be either more exp back or weakness is shorter. Whatever it is, im getting it!

[Vilurum]

My guess for Finale +2 is just improved success rate (as if it didn't have a good enough success rate). The only other things that can really be "powered up" are to dispel multiple buffs or to have a shorter recast, and although I suppose both are possible, I don't see them as likely.

EDIT: Something else that occurred to me is the flip side of this: even *more* inventory clutter. Instead of toting around up to 14 instruments, now we can tote around up to 17. Gjallarhorn looks ever more appealing.

Also, that String+3 weapon means that you can now get +13 to both string and wind with non-Dynamis stuff. Coat + dagger + AF pants + string/wind torque.

[Xccoortri]

If finale +2 meant we could take off 2 buffs at once it would really make bard an even more valuable calss...but I really have no idea what it does... I wonder what that shield is going to sell for too, there is one on the AH on ragnarok and since all my money is currently invested...I only could bid 26k and I didn't get it...I doubt it would be worth much over 50k though since it's pretty bad statwise...I wonder who drops it.

[Sabin97124]

finale +2 most likly will just be an increase the success rate. If SE actually made it so it has a shorted racast, or removing all status from mob.. that would just be too broken..

I'll buy this none the less though..

[Rekiem]

Maybe it will dispose of 2 hours special or multiple layers of buffs.

[Xccoortri]

Yeah, either way, Rekiem, let's find out who or what drops the sheild and go get us each one :D (unless you have genbu's shield...which I didn't think you had)

I am afraid it's a BCNM drop though since it's Rare...but we'll see...I really want it!

[Xccoortri]

WOWOOW, cool...we get loads of shields now...wonder if mystertour has those ones translated yet...also, singers shield, looks like it adds +5 to singing, sounds great to me...wonder where you get all these though? most likely new BCNM drops.


EDIT: NM, it's Singer's Shield 30 4 All Jobs
Latent effect: Parrying skill +5

Still cool though...I want a sheild! hehe

[Laehn]

It wouldnt make sense for +2 finale to be "less likely to fail" or resist because none of the other instruments act like that, or at least not to my knowledge, it makes songs last longer and makes them significantly more powerful. ALL the +2 instruments add duration and potency, why would they make the military harp different? But square has done weird things before...

[Vilurum]

Actually, as far as fail rate goes, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the +2 (maybe +1, don't have any of those except Mary's Horn) debuff instruments helped with that as well as potency. It's either that or string instruments are just innately worse at debuffs than wind instruments.

But when I try debuffs with a song-specific (wind) instrument and then with a string instrument? Major difference in success rate, and that's with capped skill and no skill+ items.

Most blatant example I've seen is with my initial lullabies in BC40. I do those with a harp for the range, but damned if half of them don't wake up early and very often one will flat-out fully resist (probably at least one every other BC40). They do that with my second harp lullaby too, when I still use the harp because they haven't settled down in their spots yet. (Sometimes I use a harp for the third as well.)

But then after that when I switch to Mary's Horn? I've had maybe one or two full resists with Mary's Horn in BC40 on the white mandies. *EVER*. And only 1 or 2 ever wake early, and often none do.

The difference between Mary's Horn and a Harp +1 for lullaby effectiveness cannot just be in duration, because that would not explain the big difference in resistance as well. I think song+ instruments also help land the songs, which is all the more reason (especially now that there's a finale instrument) why I always use song+ instruments rather than a CHR+ instrument.

[Laehn]

Despite that, +1 and +2 instruments all effect potency and duration. It would only make sense for it to follow the same trend someway or another.

[Kweh]

There is a harp that gives +3? Is it a dynamis drop?

[Xccoortri]

Anyone know where to even get the finale + harp? It's not on the AH which makes me think it might be rare/ex...but then again none of the new all job shields are on the ah either...