I have some issues with bard since I’ve been maining it when I started playing in the tail end of Stormblood, so this is a loose collection of my problems with bard and how we can hopefully see them fixed! I hope you enjoy and would love to hear your ideas on the matter!
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Music: 3’44” by John Cage
Stormblood tool tips from the “A Bard’s Life in Stormblood” guide by Oisty Te ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UTCG3tqgWpTNjH8l_ch0yV3y9vqC_NAiKd4KkNH817M/edit )
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I feel like I actually learned something from this.
Hoping EW brings the changes you want
Performance is my favorite combat midi player
All they need to do for dot aoe is make iron jaws apply them to all enemies near the target
No 5% party in B-roll? I can't take you seriously
Can't relate to your ails, I don't play diversity hire roles
If anything, I'd only request to consolidate ranged regardless of magic or physical, and give them a line or circle variation of LB respectively, but that's just my OCD
I actually hope in DT, they change the songs to where we don't need a target in order to activate them. Just make them an AoE centered around the PC almost like DNC and the Step Finishes.
The party buff is 2/11/2. i thought it was 3/12/3 . Not like it matters
As someone who doesn't play bard because it feels like shit and leveling it was pain:
Shift repertoire procs to occur not on server ticks, but on the usage of weaponskills. Having all your procs happen on timings desynced from your inputs feels like absolute shit.
Take a page out of reaper's book, and have iron jaws add duration onto the dot (for the sake of snapshotting, it would reapply the dot with a new duration of current remaining duration + 45s, to a max of 50s or so). Now you basically always get full value out of the dot refresh without having to grief yourself.
Two charges on empyreal arrow. For how powerful it is, drifting it feels extremely bad, but also using it when near cap can cause a lot of issues for yourself. Yes this is simplifying the job, and quite frankly bard needs that simplification anyway.
Songs shouldn't need a target. Like, why is this still a part of their design. Literally who thought this was a good idea? Also this is veering into crazy redesign territory but: remove song cooldown altogether, and also remove their duration (note, you wouldn't gain repertoire out of combat because repertoire would be gained from hitting enemies with GCDs, however bard can be given a downtime GCD that gives a repertoire proc 100% every time). If you sing another (different) song after your current one, you get a bonus. Currently army's paeon has this, but I propose it on all 3, this encourages swapping to each. For finale, you need to have sung one of each song for max bonus. This lets new bards keep full uptime on their singular song, while making a song rotation desirable at higher levels. Effectively, each song would be more of a stance than a buff, and we don't really have any stance based jobs right now.
Do this and bard will feel amazingly good to play.
I am a Bard main. I love it. Not having an aoe poison sucks, but I love running and gunning
Phys range is in such a weird spot and it's probably no surprise that the most recent released one is the only one with a solid identity.
I hope 7.0 brings some decent changes for the other two after DRG and AST, but considering how MCH went through like 3 reworks I doubt it'll get any further. At least that leaves BRD to be the most likely to have some changes left.
As Bard main, I always hate my main job LMAO
Bard is heaven… In pvp… lol
I play bard so women at the gym will like me more
Bard holds a special place in my heart as it was my main when I finished ARR for the first time…alas Ive been playing it less at endgame because of these issues…it feels wonky to play, hard to keep track of somehow. I hope it gets some nice changes in DT…I would love to play it more again.
I just wish they have bard as a separate job and archer was made into a ranger