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I switched to SAFEDNS after it wasn't even patching correctly. That solved that now it is giving me the launcher error. Ugh.

http://imgur.com/ecYYLrd

Yep. I remember this happened in Open Beta and people were stuck in limbo for days. Yay.

i187 Bard, group just fell apart. I min/max on DPS best I can and your times look good. So yea looking for group again. Feel free to message me in game.

As a bard that does utilize it I can explain to you why people don't. It quite literally breaks the class. Bard was not designed around cast times it was designed around instant casts with weaving...

That's called pushing phases. If you dps doesn't suck it's easy to do.

Anyways the sw and ea nerf made no sense. It would not have put us over anyone.

I disagree. Say every dps is top notch in a group and there is no break in dps and no movement. Bard is still 200-300 dps under everyone else besides mch. This gap shouldn't be so large. Not saying...

As it is right now mch is better unless there are 2 casters in group. That being said SE is being way too paranoid about bard dps.

Okay. There are a few things I have noticed now that I have the new bard down. The main one is I don't remember ever being this far bellow other dps. I've come to accept WM as the reality now and...

I'm parsing 930ish at i183 on dummy now over 3+ minutes. Which isn't bad, but that is with flawless use of oGCDs and stuff. It's actually rough to maintain that type of management in fights with...

The logic to me is that they didn't want bard to be more appealing than MCH. They both offer the same raid utility, so they had MCH designed with cast times and realized how that would be unappealing...

I've done that. Makes opening burst greater but otherwise doesn't up dps.

I consider myself one of the top bards I have at least seen on Behemoth. There are better ones though but not many. :P

Anyways the way I have started using WM since patch:

WM is on open with...

So 3/5 of our new skills revolve around this song and outside of that one of the new skills is a song that is nearly completely useless (Warden's Paeon). So no we don't have to use WM but SE pretty...

Honestly dude, just get good as monk. Ninja is good but not nearly the level monk is. Just practice it instead of switching jobs. Monk is king right now on the DPS charts but I've seen dragoons do as...

Now for other changes:

Empyreal Arrow:
-1: Nerf to potency. I see no reason for it. I get SE wanted to be a bit careful on the changes but our damage wasn't even close to the other classes that a...

Ok going to give my impressions since the update. Going to be honest and list the positives and negatives.

The changes to WM:
+1: The instant cast makes the song actually useable.
-1: The 15s...

Ya the 100 potency nerf made me go ?????? I just don't get it.

I'm aware of that but it wasn't necessary; we're still quite a bit under the other DPS classes.

I like the WM buff but why the potency nerf on EA and Sidewinder? Come on SE!

I haven't come across a fight that doesn't require you to move. WM isn't worth using if you lose an attack do to half a second of movement. At that point it's completely lost any advantage it had...

Dude, what is your problem? Take a chill pill.

You're a monk, you have no idea what Bards are experiencing right now. The class is simple and easy to master the "rotation" if you can call it a...

Yea I think most of us lifetime bards are more frustrated with the nerfs to our bread and butter than anything else. It wasn't needed. The auto attack changes in particular then pretty much forcing a...

The argument was towards someone who isn't maxed and says bard dps is fine. They clearly have no idea what they're talking about - because that is simply not the case. bard is gimped right now.

I've played many and that's why I said you have no idea what you're talking about.