Bard ~ Job Manifesto

Fair enough. Back on topic, it's a bit annoying that we won't get Lightning Carol II until 99, as if it were something that would break the game in the wrong hands at 95.

A real BRD would have got Mandau instead.

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Originally Posted by detlef

Fair enough. Back on topic, it's a bit annoying that we won't get Lightning Carol II until 99, as if it were something that would break the game in the wrong hands at 95.

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Yar, looks like we aren't gonna get Light/Dark Carol II. It's not really a big deal, but it makes me sad for whatever reason... ._.

I miss the days when we'd get a new song every lvl lol

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Originally Posted by Creelo

Yar, looks like we aren't gonna get Light/Dark Carol II. It's not really a big deal, but it makes me sad for whatever reason... ._.

I miss the days when we'd get a new song every lvl lol

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I do too. They need to have a healthy mix of upgrades and new songs, and the carols are powerful songs that really shouldn't be skipped over imo.

They're saving a lot for what they call "merit adjustments". It's quite possible they intend to make light and dark carol into meritable spells, along with barlightra and bardarkra.

anyone want to help me get mages ballad? im a bastok hume on pheonix

You know, fck it, BRD is the master of buffing people, so allow them to give three buffs each. Make the third buff unlock-able at 90+.

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Originally Posted by saevel

You know, fck it, BRD is the master of buffing people, so allow them to give three buffs each. Make the third buff unlock-able at 90+.

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It is already!

I need a good song to pump up my Monday bards!

In exchange for some good jams (which I know you will deliver), I bring you some fun info. In the upcoming version update we will be reducing the recast times for Pianissimo and Tenuto from 15 seconds to 5 seconds. This is not reflected on the test server, but will be in once the update goes live.

PIANISSIMO ALL THE SONGS!

Could make giving specific songs to key members a bit more useful now.

Thank you. With all the song casting time reduction on AF3 and atmas, we have had to waste that benefit when using pianissimo back to back.

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Originally Posted by Camate

I need a good song to pump up my Monday bards!

In exchange for some good jams (which I know you will deliver), I bring you some fun info. In the upcoming version update we will be reducing the recast times for Pianissimo and Tenuto from 15 seconds to 5 seconds. This is not reflected on the test server, but will be in once the update goes live.

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Nice :) Thanks Camate

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Originally Posted by Camate

I need a good song to pump up my Monday bards!

In exchange for some good jams (which I know you will deliver), I bring you some fun info. In the upcoming version update we will be reducing the recast times for Pianissimo and Tenuto from 15 seconds to 5 seconds. This is not reflected on the test server, but will be in once the update goes live.

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That was a really fast way to react to player base's requests, I like it! :D

Here I am...my day almost done and no one recommended any fresh beats to listen to while I work. :(

Need to make a FFXI bard room on turntable.fm

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Originally Posted by Camate

no one recommended any fresh beats

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Who needs fresh beats, when you can always revisit Distant Worlds?

In case someone might not know, this is the ending for the Chains of Promanthia Storyline, and in many regards, it is the main FFXI story, mostly because of how epic it was. I have to say that if anything made me feel like I "beat" FFXI, it was finishing the CoP missions.

I hope that SE can make something that is as epic as CoP was, I want to save the world again. If there was ever a reward for finishing a storyline, it was this cutscene and song too.

Spoiler: Distant Worlds, with ending Cutscene from CoP.

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Who needs fresh beats, when you can always revisit Distant Worlds?

In case someone might not know, this is the ending for the Chains of Promanthia Storyline, and in many regards, it is the main FFXI story, mostly because of how epic it was. I have to say that if anything made me feel like I "beat" FFXI, it was finishing the CoP missions.

I hope that SE can make something that is as epic as CoP was, I want to save the world again. If there was ever a reward for finishing a storyline, it was this cutscene and song too.

Spoiler: Distant Worlds, with ending Cutscene from CoP.

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So nostalgic! Man...I still remember the day I beat CoP, so so long ago.

Distant worlds house style!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWjp284mSLg

Kinda disappointed no BRDs thought of this video for Camate's BRD music needs...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so46BU_Hm-M

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Originally Posted by Camate

So nostalgic! Man...I still remember the day I beat CoP, so so long ago.

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I went to that ffxi concert, and I didn't even recognize the cutscene songs haha.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Here I am...my day almost done and no one recommended any fresh beats to listen to while I work. :(

Need to make a FFXI bard room on turntable.fm

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I'm kinda surprised at the lack of music, particularly in a brd thread.

Perhaps it'd be helpful to post what kinda music you like, or don't like to give people ideas.

For now I'll post FFXI related since that's far more likely to be within your taste and at least your Tuesday can have some music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtI4XE7Pwr0&

Hey Camate, why not just tell your boss to get you a copy of the distant worlds concert CDs to listen to? I really like the music on those, particularly the black-cover one. That way you can feel all nostalgic as you listen to all the music from the classic FF games too :)

Here's one

Here's another one

Yet another

Victory Theme from my sig :D

I'm not sure what your tastes are so I'm not sure what you like to listen to my moogle compadre.

Megaman is more your style?

Megaman 3 vocalized

Megaman 2 opening with lyrics

Several Megaman themes done in mario paint

If you're a fan of zelda

Zelda in mario paint

If you get in trouble for watching all this at work, I didn't do it...

A tiny bit of amv hell just for good measure.

@Camate

Zach Deputy = Caribbean Soul-Ninja Bard

His music does a body good.


and for the bards out there.... Greg Pattillo - Fluteboxin

Here's something unique and Final Fantasy related for you to gnaw on, Camate!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxc5QCpEOJo

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Kinda disappointed no BRDs thought of this video for Camate's BRD music needs...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so46BU_Hm-M

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That was great! :)

yo Camate is there going to be another set of missions/story line added on to game?

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Originally Posted by Ryanx

yo Camate is there going to be another set of missions/story line added on to game?

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If its going to take them THREE DAMN YEARS to fully release the entire content of said expansion then id rather they not bother. >.>

I dont remember over half of the wings of the goddess missions because it was so stop-start-stop-start-stop-start that I pretty much forgot everything about it. I did something in the castle vhalz last I checked and some demon was there and he did some paralyze thing and then I warped with some other elvaan dude.

So retarded when you have to spend YEARS doing one particular expansion - not because you dont want to do it - but because you arnt allowed to do it.

I remember all the story lines. Flawlessly. o_o And yet I always seem to forget what day of the week it is... But that's not why I came here! I thought Camate might check back here so I thought I'd post more FFXI remixes.

Aht Urhgan Pants (remix of town theme)
Ballista Ballistics

... Bah! All the music on my iPod isn't on youtube! I very well might have to upload them myself... ~.~

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That was great! :)

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No joke Mizu. I don't know how you found it, but I want you to know somewhere in Texas, while a paramedic is thumping chest and pushing epi on a cardiac arrest, this is in his earbuds now.

EDIT: Didn't quote Flion's quote, but it's to the guy who posted the video, not Flion.

Awesome! Thanks for all the jams bards! Lots of good stuff :)

Some of my favorite FFXI songs are the remixes done by the Star Onions:

Sanctuary of ZI'tah (Star Onions)

Gustaberg (Star Onions)

"Assault Theme" (Star Onions)


Theres also this from the Black Mages:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jh89VELCo4

and another version (not BLM): (Spoilers in this video FYI)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVYhcXmXSB0

I like the second one better, Nostalgiabomb, Dunno why, Distant Worlds always makes me tear up...

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Non Final Fantasy related?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anLfo...yer_embedded#!

This is my personal favorite tune!! :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

Very emotional piece... :(

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Originally Posted by Creelo

This is my personal favorite tune!! :D

RickRoll

Very emotional piece... :(

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Save people the trouble :3

Wasn't going to click on it because I was just skimming through before getting ready to level NPC, then I saw Karbuncle said it was a RickRoll...

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What a silly waste of job discussion space. Those last replies should have went into general discussion and has nothing to do with bard.

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Originally Posted by Covenant

What a silly waste of job discussion space. Those last replies should have went into general discussion and has nothing to do with bard.

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Check Page 10. All of these posts are in line with a Rep response. If you wanted the Discussion to continue about BRD, try adding something other than a complaint.

I dont know if anyone's noticed yet, but there are also 2 other 'new' songs that the dev's havent talked about yet...

Chocobo Hum (Bar-paralyze)
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Cactuar Fugue (Bar-gravity)

I say 'new' because they're currently not in the old spell list, but they are on the test server... i'm thinking this may be the case of 'Banishga III and Banish IV' where they were going to be implemented, but never got around...

I think you may be right. If you do /recast "Chocobo Hum" or /recast "Cactuar Fugue" on a normal server it doesn't come up with a command error. They may already exist but were never given scrolls or added to bard mob's spell list. I think the devs enjoy paralyze owning playable characters.

@ Karbuncle, just because he's a rep doesn't mean he can derail the discussion with idle chatter. "what music people like" IS a general discussion topic. Just like when people talk about gear choices... This topic was "manifesto" discussion. NOT being a bard I wanted to see what people thought of actual/wishful abilities and the "future" of the bard job. Not musical likes.

Not that this will make any sense realistically, but what if bards could equip "musical instruments" like melee weapons and strike mobs...with an additional sound? For example, the bells..could "ring" as they strike. I also don't mean "fun" weapons, but musical instruments that actually cause good damage.

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Originally Posted by Covenant

@ Karbuncle, just because he's a rep doesn't mean he can derail the discussion with idle chatter. "what music people like" IS a general discussion topic. Just like when people talk about gear choices... This topic was "manifesto" discussion. NOT being a bard I wanted to see what people thought of actual/wishful abilities and the "future" of the bard job. Not musical likes.

Not that this will make any sense realistically, but what if bards could equip "musical instruments" like melee weapons and strike mobs...with an additional sound? For example, the bells..could "ring" as they strike. I also don't mean "fun" weapons, but musical instruments that actually cause good damage.

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I see where you're going with that (Edward from FFIV!!! <3), but do you really think they'd implement something like that now? :/

They already have similar fun event weapons like that. So let's be realistic, that's way more than likely not going to happen.

Personally I think SE should look into fixing up Pining Nocturne. The fact that it can't be stacked with a Whm/Rdm's Addle spell just isn't like Brd at all. I always liked fact that Brd could always add to others with their debuffs (Ex. Carnage Elegy adds to someone casting Slow on the same Mob, Threnodies stack with Ninja spells, Requiem adds another DoT (when the mob isn't immune lolol...)).

I hardly doubt that if Addle/Pining Nocturne would stack it would be all that groundbreaking, so why can't it stack like all other Brd Songs? I really hope SE looks into fixing this.