Oaks and I are considering the possibly of improving barding vs. super critters that are normally unbardable.

Here is the proposal.

1. Cap barding difficulty @ 150160.
2. For discordance, scale its effect based on its success chance, but only do so if the original chance of success (before the 150 cap) is 0.
3. Probably put noprovoke on super critters, but allow them to be provoked onto...

Example: If a 120 legendary discord bard has a 45% chance to bard something that would normally be unbardable, then the discord effect would be 45% as effective. (i.e., 28% * .45 = 12% rounded down)

With peacemaking, it doesn't appear to be an issue because critters will break out of it fast, and even 45% is not reliable with the delay timer. It will still take a few bards working together to keep a paragon or a doom boss calm.

With provocation, this doesn't appear to be an issue either because provocation would primarily be used as a distraction tactic.

What do you all think?

Leurocian (Designer, Ultima Online)

From my recollection, a bard can keep retrying targeted peacemaking without skill delay if the creature is already calm. However, on failure, the delay is 10 seconds. With a 45% chance at best (and that would be with a 120 musicianship and an aligned slayer instrument), peacemaking would not work 100% of the time. Oaks and I are going to run some tests tomorrow and see if peacemaking vs. the 'Unbardables' needs to be scaled as well.

Leurocian
(Designer, Ultima Online

Not etched in stone, but perhaps the scaled discordance difficult would be equal to the success rate * 1.5.

Example: 30% chance to discord a currently 'Unbardable' critter (this would be with 120 discordance, 120 musicianship, and an aligned slayer). The discordance would be 45% as effective (30 * 1.5). 28 * .45 = 12%.

The reason I'm considering adding the extra scaling factor of 1.5 is because I felt 8% may be a hair too low.

Leurocian
(Designer, Ultima Online)

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