Kytio said:
Bard gets 3 different skills. Singing Skill, Wind instrument skill and String instrument skill. With no instrument equipped, your total skill would be your capped Singing skill at 75 which is 250. But any sane person equips an instrument on brd^^. Therefore you combine the skill from Singing + the skill from either Wind or String instrument (250). So the total skill would be 250+250=500. And that is without merits and skill gear, so it isn't all that bad.
You sure that the skills stack? I'm bard 75, among other jobs, ofcourse im no dedicated bard but use it to merit and in sky/dyna every now and then. I'd say if the skills really do stack and equippping a wind instrument, getting a total of 500+ skill you should be able to land anything on everything, considering that Red mage have enfeeb skill A+, capped 276 @ 75, yet the rdm's in my dyna shell lands their sleeps and slow more easily then i land lullaby and elegy. I know they are different, lullaby is light based and sleep dark based, but it shouldn't matter really. Just saying, if bard have skill 500 as base, + merits and skill from equips it seems to me that everything should land, always, if they stacked.