Hey everyone! There are some pretty substantial updates coming to the Minstrel. Focused feedback to would be a great help as we tune these changes, so get some play time with them and share your impressions! We will be doing at least one additional round of changes.

Changes to the Minstrel are focused mainly on the Blue and Yellow lines, with a few tweaks to the red line. We wanted to make buffing as a Minstrel more streamlined and tweak their healing rotation a bit. There are a lot of quality-of-life changes also sprinkled throughout, including some new survivability options and the replacement of some of the more situational bonuses with universally useful buffs.

  • Instruments are now visible when using Coda of Melody
  • Minstrel instruments are now cosmetically equippable and show on your character when not in use.
  • General
    • Anthems stack with one another by default
    • Anthem of the Third Age is now given out at specialization
    • All Anthems now have a default duration of 3 minutes
    • Anthem cooldowns reduced by 10 seconds.

  • Raise the Spirit Changes
    • Cooldown removed
    • Induction length increased from 1 second to 1.2 seconds.


  • Chord of Salvation Changes
    • Chord of Salvation healing increased

  • Legacies
    • Minstrel Imbued Legacy “Anthem Duration” increased from 1 second per rank to 2 seconds per rank.

  • Classic Legacy “Discordant Ballads Stance Swap Buff” is now a Light Damage Legacy, which matches its corresponding Imbued legacy.
    • Rank 1: +5% Light Damage
    • Subsequent Ranks: +2.5% per rank

  • Blue Line
    • Set Bonus “Open Ears” is now “Resolute”, which provides a potent block rating buff.
    • Removed Fate and Will Stat bonuses received upon specialization.
    • Soliloquy of Spirit’s healing has been increased.
    • Coda of Resonance grants +10% incoming healing to the fellowship for 30s
    • Trait “Improved Chord of Salvation” now increases chord of salvation healing
      • Increases Chord of Salvation Target Healing. 10% / 15% / 20 % / 25%

    • Lowering Coda of Resonance Incoming Healing buff to 5%.
    • Reducing potency of "Bolster Our Courage" group heal.

  • Red Line
    • Coda of Dissonance grants 5% outgoing damage to the fellowship for 30 seconds.
    • Trait “Discordant Ballads” now grants a constant 5% Tactical Damage instead of the “Fresh Voice” component
    • Anthem of War is no longer given out via levelling.
    • Trait “Echoing Anthem of War” now becomes “Anthem of War”, which grants the skill and includes the trait’s former +10% tactical damage bonus
    • Coda of Dissonance grants 5% outgoing damage to the fellowship for 30 seconds.

  • Yellow Line
    • Trait “Extended Anthems” now increase Anthem duration by 10 seconds per rank.
    • Trait “Extended Anthems” no longer requires a previous trait to access it
    • Trait “Vocal Stamina” has been removed.
    • Hero’s Strike healing improved and now scales with class item strength
    • Coda of Melody grants +2.5% to all partial avoidances to fellowship for 30 seconds.
    • Trait “Bracing Finish” replaced with “Raise Our Spirits”
      • Grants a fellowship-wide Heal over Time to Raise the Spirit
      • Further ranks increase the HoT strength
      • Bracing Finish required luck and premeditation for a modest benefit. Raise Our Spirits has a readily apparent value for your Trait Point investment.

    • Set bonus “Perfect Ballad” now “Improved Anthem of The Third Age”
      • Damage bonus from Anthem of the Third Age - Melody increased by 5%
      • Incoming Healing bonus from Anthem of the Third Age - Melody increased by 2.5%

    • Set Bonus “Harmonious Anthems” now "Ascendant Anthem of the Third Age"
      • Damage bonus from Anthem of the Third Age - Melody increased by 5%
      • Incoming Healing bonus from Anthem of the Third Age - Melody increased by 2.5%

    • Trait “Exposing Weakness” is now “Of all Trades”
      • 3 rank trait
      • Increases outgoing damage by 3% / 6% / 10%
      • Increases outgoing healing by 3% / 6% / 10%

    • Echoes of battle now carries a Critical Defence debuff
    • New Specialization bonuses increase Light Damage by 10% and Outgoing Healing by 5%
    • Skill “Anthem of the Third Age – Melody” – Now grants incoming healing and outgoing damage to the fellowship instead of a less useful Power Cost reduction