Another Bard post, changing mains? Discuss!

You know, brd wasn't even my original main. I started out as a drg, then swapped to main smn when I started doing endgame around the second coil era, and eventually swapped to brd around Final Coil. Now, I'm really looking at going back to my original mains. DRG for raids and trials, smn for dungeon burns. I love my brd, and I am good at my job, but hell, no matter how good I am, I'm always gonna be the sandbagger until there's a fix. I don't feel comfortable with that. I will keep my brd current and up to date in anticipation of it becoming viable again, OR if brd songs are as needed in Alex as they were in FCoB. But otherwise, yeah, putting the bow aside for now.

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Originally Posted by Kelevra

I don't plan to switch mains.

I'm in the minority and like the idea with Minuet. My problem with it isn't the loss of mobility, but the dmg I should be able to do with it should be much higher than what I can do with it right now.

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Also, I feel the same way. I like the concept of minuet, and I would be fine with seeing it stay. But yeah, the reward for what you give up is, very much not worth it.

Honestly, I think just the simple act of lifting the AA penalty from it would make enough of a difference to make it worth using outside of AoE situations and fight openers. One way or another, it needs some sort of a boost.

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Originally Posted by Professional

You won't see anyone playing the class if it isn't fixed because right now it's quite frankly garbage. Sadly I need to stay on it for progression and can't find any relief from MCH since that's garbage too.

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Level your MCH to 60 and practice more on it. It doesn't deal much better DPS than BRD yes, but game play wise it is smoother.

I swapped main to SMN/SCH at lvl 53; no regrets. First time though my highest levelled class/job wasn't Archer/Bard. The cast time with WM didn't bother me so much as I already knew how to play casters... the lower DPS from the insufficient trade-off between loss of autoattacks and the 20% Dmg increase (when not interrupting attacks by dodging) did. Actually getting new useful, fun skills every two levels for SMN and SCH now off that base ACN class. I'll probably get back to bard eventually if/when some of its DPS issues are solved. I don't expect them to go as far as people are asking, or do anything that could be seen as being an admission of having made a mistake with 3.0 bard design- that'll never happen.

I have a theory that every new SMN I see running around is a jaded former BRD. Myself included.

i honestly have no idea what to do.

leveling machinist at the moment just because i think machinist will be "fixed" sooner than expected. like fixing potency numbers and reducing the rng factor. unfortunately for bard WM is going to stay for a while till we see a fix. :(

Bard is definitely broken right now and anyone who says they are okay with WM and is staying in WM stance 100% are probably, most definitely bad bards. No offense, it's the truth. Not like I'm coming back in here to read replies anyway, lol.

Wait, this isn't the place to say I'm changing my main to Bard? Bu- but the HW skills look so cool.

In all seriousness, are there any videos of someone parsing less with WM on than without it? I can't seem to find any.

Next update: All bards can delevel their job to level 1.

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Originally Posted by Kitria

Wait, this isn't the place to say I'm changing my main to Bard? Bu- but the HW skills look so cool.

In all seriousness, are there any videos of someone parsing less with WM on than without it? I can't seem to find any.

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On a dummy? If you find any, send me some, please, I'll put a dislike on it or something.