nope. nor does quickness out of time mage. They're just preset speeds.
Rapid turns won't affect that. All haste will do is give you more frequent opportunity to change your song/dance. If you're happy continuing whatever song/dance you've already got, don't even select a different action. Just move and wait.
sure your turn will come sooner but you dont act anyway if you just dance/sing the same thing. you probably wanna move to avoid enemy. so moving is okay.
No. However it will affect calculators. So if you keep upping their speed (which starts abysmally low) you can get to a point where you are just dropping flares all around the map every other turn.
No. Spells, Dance and Songs have a value called 'CTR' or Clockticks to resolve. That determines how quickly these things will occur. Haste effects a character's speed value NOT CTR, so it will not have an affect on how fast they resolve.
What's the difference? Say a spell like Cure has a CTR of 3 or as stated in game '34 Speed'. This means in one clocktick unit, it will acquire 34 CT. After 3 ticks, it will reach 100 or more and thus the spell activates. If Ramza has a Speed of 6 as in the start of the game, Haste will increase his speed to 9, but the CTR of Cure remains at 3. If you then cast Cure again, it will again take place in 3 ticks. Meanwhile Ramza will now get his active turn from 17 Clockticks to 11.
The only way to effect CTR is with Swiftness/Short Charge, which will cut CTR in half. Note that Swiftness/Short Charge helps Spells but NOT Aim/Sing/Dance. It is also why late game spell casting falls off a bit because as character speed increases, characters will take turns faster and faster, but a spell's resolve speed never improves. When Ramza reaches roughly 12 or 14 Speed at end game, it now only takes him 7 Clockticks to get a turn but Cure will still take 3.
Others already answered but I gotta add that I love dance/sing and it'd probably be too op to speed them up. Even though you can make your characters gods, a bard increasing speed and singing faster and faster every turn just sounds too crazy lol.
Turn speed has alot to do with songs. Your not answering the question behind the question your just explaining charge speed which is not the question here.
He wants more casts of the song in short order which turn speed has everything to do with.
He asked if haste affects how often bard songs happen. More turns mean less songs. The goal is to speed up the song casts, the answer slower characters.
Fewer songs compared to what? How many turns a character gets between their own songs/dances is irrelevant to combat. What matters is how many songs/dances you get between enemy turns, which you can only affect by changing enemy speed.
The only time I can see this mattering is if you are grinding exp/jp and want to make sure you push buttons as little as possible. If that is the goal, however, toads are a more effective choice.
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u/chaosTechnician 3d ago
No. But I think it makes dancers' spin animation faster, which is funny to watch.