Barding Difficulty List
By Nadya Modavia of Catskills, Legendary Bard
(Updated for Ultima Online:
Age of Shadows)
My grandfather
Leurocian informed me that more creatures can now be swayed by a bard’s song
and dance. This list has been updated
based on the recollection of a conversation I recently had with him.
I want to give special
thanks to Vex for providing me with a bard skill debugging option on
Click here to use
Bard Skill Calculator
Update for Peacemaking in Publish 21. I asked Vex about this, and here are my
questions to him and his responses:
Q: I wanted to update my UO bard page after
Pub 21 with the new peacemaking adjustment. Do you know what the % chance
for critters to break peace when hit will be? And how is it calculated?
A: Basically, with Pub 21, every time a
monster is hit its chance to break the peacemake
effect is increased by 0.1% for each point of damage taken, and the chance is
tested right then. This means that if you peace a critter and don't
attack, it's still likely to remain under peacemake
effect for a good while. However, attacking it will break the effect
pretty quickly.
Q: Is
this 'amount of damage taken' reset after each successful re-peace?
A: The effect is cumulative, so the more you hit the target the
greater its chance of breaking the effect.
As always, thanks
Vex for the information!
% Success Formula
·
50 + 2 * (Bard Skill - Bard Difficulty after
Modifiers)
·
Look up creature’s base difficulty on list below
(e.g., lich lord base difficulty is 106.4).
·
Apply all Bard Difficulty Modifiers as described below
(e.g., exceptional instrument and Peacemaking reduce base difficulty by 15
points, so the Bard Difficulty for the lich lord becomes 106.4 – 15 = 91.4).
·
Subtract Bard Difficulty from Bard Skill (e.g., if
Peacemaking is 100 then 100 – 91.4 = 8.6).
·
Multiply result of the subtraction by 2 (e.g., 8.6 * 2
= 17.2).
·
Add 50 to the result of the multiplication (e.g., 17.2
+ 50 = 67.2).
·
% Success in the above example = 67.2%.
Bard Difficulty Modifiers
·
Instrument
·
Reduce base difficulty by 5 (10%) when using an exceptional
instrument.
·
Reduce base difficulty by 10 points (20%) when using an enchanted
instrument of aligned type.
·
Increase base difficulty by 10 points (20%) when using an
enchanted instrument of opposite aligned type.
·
Musicianship
·
If
Musicianship is above 100, subtract 100 from your Musicianship skill and divide
the result by 2. This is your
Musicianship bonus.
·
Reduce
base difficulty by your Musicianship bonus (e.g., 10 points for Musicianship of
120, 20%).
·
Skill
·
Reduce base difficulty by 5 points (10%) when performing
Provocation.
·
Reduce base difficulty by 10 points (20%) when performing
Discordance or Targeted Peacemaking.
Notes
To figure out % success for provoking two creatures to fight,
calculate % success separately for each creature, add them together, and divide
by 2.
The base range of all bard abilities is 8 tiles, with each 15
points of skill in the ability being used increasing this range by one tile.
As of Age of Shadows, Discordance no longer reduces a creature’s
stats: strength, dexterity, intelligence, hit points,
stamina, and mana. However, Discordance reduces physical
resistance, all elemental resistances, and skills by up to 20% at Grandmaster
and 28% and Legendary. Swing rate, damage,
and chance to evade are directly reduced; this is in addition to the skill
reduction of anatomy, tactics, lumberjacking, weapon skill, wrestling, parry,
etc. Discordance still lowers a
creature’s base barding difficulty.
To calculate a creature's base barding difficulty (before any
modifiers are applied), go on Test Center, set Peacemaking to the absolute
minimum skill allowed for a Targeted Peacemaking attempt, and add +35 to the
minimum skill.
For example: Dragon minimum difficulty that allows a
Targeted Peacemaking attempt is 70.0.
70.0 + 35 = 105.0.
The difficulty numbers for Provocation, Discordance, and
Peacemaking listed in the table below are the skill values required in those
skills for 50% success. Other modifiers
(Musicianship bonus over 100, exceptional instrument bonus, and magical
instrument bonus) are not included in the table below. Difficulty
ratings vary per creature and will generally fall within +/-2% of the values
given below. At this skill level –25.0,
the bard has no chance of success and can’t make the attempt. At this skill level +25.0, the bard is
guaranteed success and cannot gain skill against this creature.
|
Creature (Alphabetical) |
Difficulty |
|
Creature (Numerical) |
Difficulty |
|
Acid
Elemental |
83.9 |
|
Vorpal Bunny |
158.2 |
|
Agapite Elemental |
72.9 |
|
Plague
Beast Lord |
144.5 |
|
Air
Elemental |
75.7 |
|
Ancient
Lich (Khaldun) |
135.9 |
|
Alligator |
32.2 |
|
Sphinx |
135.3 |
|
Ancient
Lich (Khaldun) |
135.9 |
|
Ancient
Wyrm |
131.4 |
|
Ancient
Wyrm |
131.4 |
|
Tentacles
of the Harrower (Khaldun) |
131.4 |
|
Ant
Lion |
77.8 |
|
Rotting
Corpse |
128.8 |
|
Arctic
Ogre Lord |
88.8 |
|
Serpentine
Dragon |
128.8 |
|
Balron |
117.4 |
|
Shadow
Wyrm |
124.9 |
|
Betrayer |
96.5 |
|
Skeletal
Dragon |
119.7 |
|
Bird |
4.6 |
|
Balron |
117.4 |
|
Black
Bear |
31 |
|
Devourer
of Souls |
114.3 |
|
Black
Solen Infiltrator (Queen) |
82.6 |
|
Gargoyle
Destroyer |
110.8 |
|
Black
Solen Infiltrator (Warrior) |
74.2 |
|
Exodus
Minion Lord |
110.6 |
|
Black
Solen Queen |
79.6 |
|
Meer Eternal |
109.4 |
|
Black
Solen Warrior |
72.9 |
|
|
108.6 |
|
Black
Solen Worker |
58.3 |
|
Zealot
of Khaldun (Summoner) |
108.5 |
|
Black
Widow |
70.6 |
|
Ethereal
Warrior |
107.6 |
|
Blackthorn
Juggernaut |
82.2 |
|
Succubus |
107.2 |
|
Blade
Spirit |
75.1 |
|
Lich
Lord |
106.4 |
|
Blood
Elemental |
94.9 |
|
Poison
Elemental |
105.1 |
|
Boar
|
7.5 |
|
Dragon |
105 |
|
Bog
Thing |
86.1 |
|
Chaos
Dragoon Elite |
102.5 |
|
Bogling |
61.5 |
|
White
Wyrm |
100.3 |
|
Bone
Knight |
69.1 |
|
Executioner
|
99.1 |
|
Bone
Magi |
71.4 |
|
Ophidian
Matriarch |
97.1 |
|
Brigand |
72.6 |
|
Betrayer |
96.5 |
|
Bronze
Elemental |
71.8 |
|
Juka Mage |
96.3 |
|
Brown
Bear |
29.6 |
|
Fire
Gargoyle |
96 |
|
Bull |
35.8 |
|
Zealot
of Khaldun (Knight) |
96 |
|
Bullfrog |
29.2 |
|
Wandering
Healer |
95.8 |
|
Cat
|
6 |
|
Blood
Elemental |
94.9 |
|
Centaur |
79.7 |
|
Orc
Brute |
94.3 |
|
Chaos
Dragoon |
83.8 |
|
Titan |
93.6 |
|
Chaos
Dragoon Elite |
102.5 |
|
Exodus
Minion |
93 |
|
Chicken
|
3.4 |
|
Terathan Avenger |
91.5 |
|
Controller |
81.3 |
|
Terathan Matriarch |
91.2 |
|
Copper
Elemental |
73.3 |
|
Elder
Gazer |
90.2 |
|
Corpser |
37.8 |
|
Ogre
Lord |
90 |
|
Cougar |
33.3 |