Discordance

Discordance is a bard skill that debuffs a creature with jarring music. The prose is community-derived (paraphrased from the uorenaissance.com skill list plus ServUO behavior) pending field verification; the stats table and effect formula below are source-verified against ServUO.

What it does

Discordance plays disharmonious music at a target to lower its stats and combat/resistance skills for a time, making a tough foe noticeably easier to fight or tame. It is one of the three bard skills, and arguably the most valuable for PvM because the debuff applies to nearly anything.

How to use it

Equip an instrument and use Discordance, then target the creature. The attempt rolls against the creature’s difficulty (modified by Musicianship); on success the debuff is applied for a duration. See combat basics.

How to train it

• Low skill — discord weak creatures with a quality instrument.
• Mid/high skill — discord progressively tougher creatures; harder targets keep you in the gain window. A high Musicianship is required so attempts don’t simply fail.

See skill gain.

Mechanics & numbers

Primary stat	Dexterity
Secondary stat	Intelligence
Title	Demoralizer
Mastery skill	Yes
Gain notes	skill-ups can raise Dex +0.25, Int +0.25 (per-use stat gain weights)

From Scripts/Skills/Discordance.cs: the debuff magnitude is effect = max(-28, Discordance / -4) — i.e. up to −28% to the target’s stats and skills at GM (scaling as skill/4). In PvP the effect is halved. Musicianship above 100 reduces the difficulty (diff -= (music - 100) * 0.5), and there is roughly an 8-second reuse delay reduced by the mastery bonus.

Related skills & synergies

• Musicianship — required for every attempt to succeed.
• Provocation + Peacemaking — the full bard trio; see the Bard build on seven-GM templates.
• Animal Taming — discording a tough creature before taming lowers its effective difficulty.

See also

• Combat basics
• Skill gain · Skills index

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