Bards are underrated

[Draylo]

They're not needed though. Hopefully more content will be added that makes BRD a must-have job.

As for Threnody procs, you can just have a BLM sub BRD, Elemental Seal+Threnody is much more reliable than trying to spam it until it sticks.

Bards were never really a must have job outside of zerging(maybe). I have done plenty of the end game content without them but its obviously much easier and faster with them. This applies to Abyssea as well.

[rog]

Bards were never really a must have job outside of zerging(maybe). I have done plenty of the end game content without them but its obviously much easier and faster with them. This applies to Abyssea as well.

They were never a must have, no, but they could allow you to do things faster and/or with less people. With everything being easily lowmanned now, bringing a brd actually requires an extra person, and since kill speed is usually based almost entirely on how fast you can proc !!s, the extra damage doesn't really matter either.