As I expected the merit categories that replace Foe Sirvente and Adventurer’s Dirge are not good enough to warrant giving up 5/5 NT merits.

Pre-adjustment → Post-adjustment
Foe Sirvente → Con Anima
Adventurer’s Dirge → Con Brio

Con Anima
Decreases own physical damage taken while singing a beneficial song. Decrease damage taken by 1%.

Con Brio
Decreases own magic damage taken while singing a beneficial song. Decrease damage taken by 1%.

Hopefully this not the ONLY adjustment bard gets, because it's really disappointing. Does not really help the job at all, sirvente and dirge are very limited in use because there are other songs that are more beneficial to battles.

SE please if you're going to make each job unique PLEASE read the forums. I have posted many issues about brd. The highest priority to me is the ballad overwrite issue.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...verwrite/page2

Followed by the spell icons for bard, could easily color each different song type a different color, IE attack red, defense blue etc.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...-Icons-for-BRD

Be consistent about bard songs affecting pets. Mob bards can buff Mob pets, yet players cannot buff player pets. It should be the same, why do beastman bards have more power than player bards in this respect. Either remove Mob bards song effects on mob pets, or allow player songs to affect player pets.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...cc-Regen/page2

and lastly finally giving us the player bards massacre elegy

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...Massacre-Elegy