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One significant thing about Stormblood role actions: you still had to pick 5. So the dps could…not pick any silence or stuns in favor of healing and buffs, which would mean there was noone to interrupt attacks.
i Love this new Series i love this Blast of the past
"(Blunt Arrow) (Just used it!)"
Yea you
This is a good idea for a series. But a quick suggestion: should you perhaps call it From A Realm Reborn to Endwalker instead of Now? That way it's clear from the title alone which expansion the video was relevant during if it comes up due to searches or due to algorithm magic years in the future.
I've always felt FFXIV media was lacking some "historic" content.. Thanks for this!
Would it break the game if we could pick which Limit Break we bring into fights? Like we could equip a different roles's 'generic' LB? Would progression be broken because more healer LBs exist?
Damn the nostalgia really hit home …. Also I miss Bowmage … everyone I knew back then bitched about it but I actually loved it (also bard was a PvP beast back then)
I think peloton is different from swiftsong because you can just keep refreshing it now instead of reuse ending it.
I love that I can use Warden Pean's in Delubrum Reginae to eliminate Doom status.
How many times people were screaming – we don't have a healer, we'll die one by one
And here I am, all in white (and green!), cleansing them from Doom, or staying as Last Survivor xD
tanks pulling trash out of friendly aoe because of visuals…? <Ninja Doton flashbacks> ….
Please can you do Summoner/scholar ?
I have to say, Stormblood was my favourite iteration of Bard.
I loved the Refulgent vs Empyreal gambling (as much as it was a pain for parsers). I loved how the timing of every pull was a little different as a result.
I loved being forced to think a few GCDs ahead to avoid accidentally overwriting a Refulgent proc with a necessary SS refresh, unlike now where only the current GCD matters.
I loved how crazy hectic it could be if all my procs popped at once (especially if I was also trying to handle savage mechs at the same time).
I loved how strong the DoT identity was, and how much focus there was on using Iron Jaws to snapshot buffs โ which weren't all on the 2 minute rhythm so I had to pay attention to my party and my DoT durations to constantly judge whether it was worth an IJ or not.
I loved multi-dotting in AoE โ yeah it was a pain, but you got SO MANY PROCS.
And it felt so much more like a support class: Refresh, Tactician, Palisade, ridiculously good uptime on Minne, and a really interesting element of pre-planning in Troubadour. Nowadays a bunch of the support is gone and everything that remains is stuff I'm using anyway for myself (like Battle Voice or the songs), so the fact that it's support is incidental. Back then I was actually THINKING about my party's needs.
The only part I didn't really like was the reliance on piercing debuff. It was absurd how much of a difference in parse that could make.
Oh, and the loss of Wide Volley from ARR/HW. Way cooler AoE skill than our dinky little cone.
It's funny that you put a Heavensward logo in the picture as Bards weren't in Heavensward. They were completely deleted and replaced with Bow Mages.
Hell yeah, man. Glad you're back on your retrospective videos.
So this all reminds me of my greatest bard story:
The scene: Ifrit EX duty finder, because that was a thing people did back then in ARR.
The cast: Me, the bard. Everyone else, dead. Ifrit, 10% health.
I kited Ifrit around, using everything I had to stay alive while my party said to just wipe it and try again. Even used all my TP to sprint around the outside avoiding melee range. But I saw… LB3 just seconds away. Kited Ifrit to the edge for him to start casting something, so I could run to the middle (because remember the limited range on Healer LB3?) and slammed that LB button to rez the whole party, sacrificing myself for the win! The tanks picked Ifrit back up after he auto'd me to death during animation lock, and the healers left me on the ground while the rest of the party did the last 10% of the fight and won.
…And then everyone yelled at me for wasting their time by staying alive instead of dying so we could pull again. I spent maybe 20s alive waiting for the LB, whereas another pull would have taken however many minutes 90% of Ifrit EX took back then. But sure, I wasted their time saving the raid.
So, actually jobs didn't get unique lb3s until Stormblood, not Heavensward. In Heavensward they simply created a physical ranged lb3 for bard and machinist since bard was no longer the only physical ranged dps, and it wouldn't make sense for machinist to have healer lb3.
I miss the animation of Flaming Arrow and SMN's Shadow Flare. They just looked cool.
Can Bard get a n ability like the Summoner ones have. If you DoT one enemy, use that and DoT all enemies close to it. Is really tedious and silly to lose like 20 secs to DoT every single mob one by one.
BLM next! I miss some of the old spells….heavy…apocatastasis….even drain lol
Awwww, you started with my job for life, Bard! Nine years a Bard and counting… Wish we still had raise, seeing a body lying around in the wild asking for a raise, always annoying having to switch back to Archer to raise them.
Awesome video!!! Do paladin next <3
As an Bard main – thank you so much for this <3
20:19 you didn't need to turn off WM to use Feint because Feint still didn't have a cast time while under WM. It's why it was pretty good to use because it still got the 30% damage buff and allowed movement
Might be a hot take but I feel like they could give machinist the cast times back and make it use the sniper from pvp for more damage as a stance swap mechanic
Was a BRD main back in ARR. Changed to WAR in HW and stayed, but BRD is still my second pick for everything. I too, miss flaming arrow and wide volley. Those skills were so great.
I really enjoyed this. Iโve been playing since ARR beta, and it was a hell of a walk down memory lane. Iโll definitely be looking forward to more of these.
I wasn't around for caster bard so i don't know what i'm asking when i suggest this. But i feel like an element of caster would be a nice change, I'd not want Bard to revolve around "caster bard" but maybe the next evolution of apex arrow or another song that drains over time or costs mp as that's a resource that's just sitting there not being utilized?
Although i feel like the closest thing to caster bard i (who started in stormblood) have experienced is maybe the bard normal attack in pvp?
Great video, As a Bard main this is appreciated. Keep up the good work, Haps! ๐
(Big prayge for wide volley return as an evolution of quick nock. It's long overdue.
If the wood wailers can do it! We should be able to do it. C'mon! lol)
the game was so much better back then. 2.x / 3.x was the best time to play this game for the MMORPG aspect.
This is an amazing idea especially for preservation cuz its easy for old job skills and even rotations at the time to get lost due to lack of documentations so this series is a pretty cool idea to preserve some of ffxiv's job design history
I loved Bowmage!!