Discordance

Summary

Using the Discordance skill greatly reduces the stats of the creature targeted
Players may Discord multiple creatures simultaneously
Skill usage cooldown is 5 seconds on both success and failure, but a player may only use Discordance once every 10 seconds (i.e. a player may alternate between using Discordance and Peacemaking every 5 seconds)
The Bard Codex will greatly enhance the Discordance skill

A player's base Discordance skill is capped by their Musicianship skill (i.e. a player with 50 Discordance and 25 Musicianship is considered to have 25 Discordance)
A player's Effective Discordance Skill is their (Discordance Skill + Instrument Skill Bonuses + Applicable Instrument Slayer Bonuses + Supplemental Skill Bonuses + Lyric Aspect Armor Bonus)
Players can increase their Effective Discordance Skill through use of the Forensic Eval and Tracking skill, which is listed in the above formula as "Supplemental Skill Bonuses" (see Forensic Eval and Tracking Skill entries for more info)
A player's total bonuses to Effective Discordance coming from Instruments, Supplemental Skill Bonuses, or Lyric Aspect Armor cannot be higher than their Musicianship skill (i.e. a player with 25 Musicianship could only gain up 25 points of Effective Discordance from their Instruments, Supplemental Skills, or Lyric Aspect Armor)
Chance for skillgain is doubled on a successful Discordance check
Discord effect duration is ((60 seconds - (Creature Difficulty Value)) * (Effective Barding Skill / 100)) with a minimum duration of 15 * (Musicianship Skill / 100) seconds
Players attempting to use Discordance on a creature that is currently already Provoked or Pacified will gain an effective Barding skill bonus of 25 on the Discordance attempt

The Barding Songs are:

Barding Songs
Skill	Effect
Discordance	Provides a (5% * (Effective Barding Skill / 100)) Damage Resistance bonus to Players and their Followers
Peacemaking	Provides a (5% * (Effective Barding Skill / 100)) Healing Amounts Received Bonus to Players and their Followers
Provocation	Provides a (5% * (Effective Barding Skill / 100)) Damage Bonus to Players and their Followers
All AoE Barding Song Buffs durations are 15 minutes
Casting a Barding Song has a 10 second cooldown that is independent of normal bard skill usage

Casting a Barding Song has a 10 second cooldown that is independent of normal bard skill usage
All AoE Barding Songs have a 15 minute duration

Discorded creatures take 25% increased damage from all sources. Bosses take increased damage from all sources related to their boss difficulty. An omni boss takes 10% increased damage for example.
Discorded creatures suffer a 25% penalty to their damage dealt
The effectiveness of the Discordance effects on creatures will now scale to be (Bard's Printed Discordance Skill / 120) % of normal Patch June 23,2023
Discorded creatures that are Pacified or Provoked take an additional 15% increased damage from all sources
Creatures that have been discorded will have a swirling animation effect around them and will display *discorded Xs* in the text above their head when doing AllNames, where X is the number of seconds until the discordance effect will end

When selecting a target for Discordance, players may target themselves to create an area discordance effect
Area Discordance has the same cooldowns as a normal Discordance action
Area Discordance makes an individual Discordance skill check against each non-tamed creatures within 8 tiles of the bard
For each successful check, the creature is Discorded for 5 seconds
Players cannot perform AoE Discordance or Peacemaking while in a guarded areas

Discord effects against tamed creatures will always be at most 15 seconds
Players attempting to use Discordance on a creature that is currently already Provoked or Pacified will gain an effective barding skill bonus of 25 on the Discordance attempt
Provoked creatures do not suffer a penalty to their damage dealt by Discordance
Provoked or Pacified creatures that are also Discorded taken an additional 15% damage from all sources (i.e. these creatures will take an additional 40% damage from all sources)

Skill	Activity
0-50	Train from NPC
50-80	Use Discordance on creatures in the New Player Dungeon
80-120	Use Discordance on creatures at the Prevalia Zoo/Battletrainer