Bard Song Adjustments on the Test Server

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Yes, please make then useable. You can even make them incompatible with boost and gain if nessicary.

[detlef]

I would like the Devs to look at Etudes, Carols, and Threnodies which were balanced around long outdated content. All of their potencies are underwhelming these days.

[Monchat]

they should have carols/etude use a different buff slot and make etude them not wear off over time. But im sure they'll use their "balance" argument and prefer leaving them in the useless spell pile.

[Kari]

I would like the Devs to look at Etudes, Carols, and Threnodies which were balanced around long outdated content. All of their potencies are underwhelming these days.

It'll be really hard to balance Etudes. Even if they remove the decay, +15 to a stat is REALLY hard to compare to a large percentage of Attack/Haste.

[Babekeke]

It'll be really hard to balance Etudes. Even if they remove the decay, +15 to a stat is REALLY hard to compare to a large percentage of Attack/Haste.

I think that's what he's trying to get at. Aside from when you have 2 bards with Daurdabla SVing an alliance and singing to both parties, you're never going to need Etudes. Therefore they need to be increased to probably double their current value and not decay. Even then they'll still probably not be used over att, except on weaker mobs when you're already capping att.

[saevel]

Etudes should scale all the way to 25 cap from skill and not decay.

Currently our BRDs do up to six buffs (one is 99 Harp other is two song BRD), in an Embrava situation we're overkill on haste yet Min III doesn't really offer much as we're already capped on attack. Being able to tack on another 25 STR would be quite helpful and at least do ~something~ to the DD's.

[Creelo]

Random, but...

Whatever happened to Massacre Elegy?

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Random, but...

Whatever happened to Massacre Elegy?

I could swear they said "maybe."

[Creelo]

Will Massacre Elegy be added

We have plans to. However, when considering the stats, we are planning to make it so this isn’t a song that can be used by just anyone.

Doesn't sound like a maybe. Granted... this was posted over a year ago. :/

I hate how SE announces shit and then never delivers decent status updates on that shit, so we are left to think that shit is just stuck in limbo. Another example that comes to mind are new Avatars for Smn...

[Reain]

In this thread in January: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...l=1#post261278

Other Information of Note
Additional planned features, such as equipment-specific magic spells and pets, have been postponed to allow for more thorough testing concerning attributes, the number of potential users and the process by which to obtain them. One consideration is whether to implement such features as another stage of the above upgrades, or to apply them to a different set of equipment. Also under deliberation is whether to limit the availability of such equipment or make it relatively simple to obtain.

I think Gjallarhorn may have become too common to just give Massacre Elegy to without an additional quest.

There's also this horn model was dat mined in May and not used.


Source: http://wilddragonchase.blogspot.co.u...data-mine.html