Enough. 99 BRD, Still singing same song from level 60.

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Originally Posted by saevel

That is wrong, period.

While BRD isn't no where near the heavy DD's, and as a pure support job it shouldn't be. But I've seen some ridiculous BRD's in my time. Get good STR Daggers, or one of the super daggers, make a TP and WS set and go nuts. Exten or Evis take your pick.

The only way a BRD's melee capacity seems weak is that due to their role being to sign songs, when their singing their not doing damage, which is understandable. Their damage capability while their not singing songs though is quite acceptable. It's just another thing to spend that time in-between songs rather then sitting around waiting for something to happen.

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Also add to the fact that BRD has some powerful TP and WS gear options, and a free 2% haste with the angel lyre. Anyone saying

"I don't care what gear your bard has, even a full perle drk with a somewhat lousy weapon is still going to out DD a BRD; as such I wouldn't call it 'decent' by any means."

Has no idea how this game works. I've out DD'd plenty of people with mediocre DD gear. The only thing BRD lacks is native stats (STR, DEX etc) and abilities that augment their DD capability. (This is made up by constant double march, though.)

yep, brd can melee. Certainly we aren't going to out-do many jobs, but we're not just taking up space either. The main problem with melee bard is that the more we gear to hit/damage, the worse our Def tends to be, and in this day and age of AoE spam Squishy is NOT the way you want to be... The other problem of course is that unless you are rocking the 99 harp or relic horn you're probably carrying enough gear to need a road crew for your 1 man band, adding in melee sets of armor just makes the problem worse. Our sub has alot to say as well, /nin or dnc we're probably carrying daggers or maybe swords or clubs, but anything else and we're probably backline with ele staves, and staff isn't that great of a weap to begin with so 40 levels out of date REALLY doesn't help. Still, I usually melee unless i'm tasked with back-up healing or pulling, then I'm just too damn busy since everything dies so fast... especially if I'm doing my buffing job.