RIP Bard

[Zhexos]

Greetings,

If you move... AT ALL... the effect disappears. This seems like a seriously situational skill at best. The bonus damage would have to be very significant for me to give up my mobility, auto-attacks and attack speed just to use a handful of skills with long charge times.

I'll reserve judgement until I've had a play with it, but I'm not thrilled by the immediate prospects yet.

Wow, i didn't understand that Minuet disappears if you move, i understood that you lose the cast time of the spell, obviously. This is just a clunky mechanic for the sake of being clunky. The prospect of playing a physical BLM isn't appealing at all.......

Actually the effect from Wanderer's Minuet does not disappear when you move, this is our mistake, and we apologize for the confusion. It is as Seifa mentioned, that if you move while using your actions, then that action will be interrupted.

We have updated our post with the correct information in the digest thread here.

[ExiaQuanta]

Its probably something that will let others differentiate those who care to those who dont. A bard who is able to effectively use this song gets even stronger. However a bard that doesn't know how to use the song and doesnt want to use it, still does optimal minimal BRD dps. The only way this skill can potentially hurt someones numbers is if they don't know how to use it but still use it anyways with no knowledge.

I guess there giving us BRD mains a reason to NOT mess up as we dont really get punished for messing up like BLM or the melee's do. If you can do it correctly more deeps, if you cant well.....back to the drawing board for you.

[Dhex]

We have updated our post with the correct information in the digest thread here.

Praise be to the bomb for it's scorching clarity is brightest in all the land!

[Dualblade]

I much more wonder how the hell we're supposed to be able to sing two songs at once in the first place. Should've just called it a "Stance" or "Mode" like for other classes, really.

According to some other threads I've seen XI did allow not only two songs at once, but even four at once! Which is even wierder. Mayhaps its more of when you sing both songs, you kinda combine them into one. Mash-ups and all that.

[Warlyx]

cool , thats what i have been asking for , a butt that let me do more dmg in exchange for being able to move and dps ! , our gameplay will be like a "caster" with that buff but i dont mind :3

now the animation ....:S , why dont use a full animation of picking arrow puting it on the string and charging the shot instead of being stuck picking the arrow from quiver? D:

[Lillia]

I just saw the update! That means it lowers dps if you're moving with the song on because no auto attack nor skills can be done but doesn't restrict your movement.

I'm glad that got cleared up, thanks Zhexos. ^^;

[StouterTaru]

According to some other threads I've seen XI did allow not only two songs at once, but even four at once! Which is even wierder. Mayhaps its more of when you sing both songs, you kinda combine them into one. Mash-ups and all that.

You could have two songs up on each party member per bard, but it required having an instrument equipped offhand, and you couldn't have double of a song up. There were also about 20 times as many songs.

[Dualblade]

You could have two songs up on each party member per bard, but it required having an instrument equipped offhand, and you couldn't have double of a song up. There were also about 20 times as many songs.

Still not exactly something that would be easy to do, and thats BEFORE we start talking about doing so in battle. That said it makes sense, more so if one song is considered voice and the other instrumental I guess.

Though now I wonder where I got the "one person could do 4 songs at once" thing from...

[Duelle]

Still not exactly something that would be easy to do, and thats BEFORE we start talking about doing so in battle. That said it makes sense, more so if one song is considered voice and the other instrumental I guess.

Though now I wonder where I got the "one person could do 4 songs at once" thing from...

If I'm not remembering wrong, the maximum number of songs that could be affecting you was 4, but that would require two bards in the party.

So according Zhexos' update, the buff doesn't prevent movement like I originally though. It basically turns BRD into a caster. I'm still not happy to hear that and question why that wasn't reserved for a future ranged DPS class.

[Seifa]

Greetings,


Actually the effect from Wanderer's Minuet does not disappear when you move, this is our mistake, and we apologize for the confusion. It is as Seifa mentioned, that if you move while using your actions, then that action will be interrupted.

We have updated our post with the correct information in the digest thread here.

Oh wow, i didn't expect my emo rant to make a community team member to post and clarify this mechanic a bit.... I should do this more often. Still, i'm eating salt because i'm not sure i like this mechanic or not >.<