Bard - too few skills?

While I am only 70 on bard, so far feels really good, it is a pretty busy job when you are fully utilizing procs. That being said, really miss foes, MP buffs, and misery end. Straight shot gone will take some time getting used to.

So for the first time since release I am going to switch to something else. This class is now boring beyond comprehension. It's like they decided to restructure the class and forgot to add back anything to balance the stuff they took out. Why does my Tank Gun Blade have a better and more interesting DPS rotation than my DPS Bard?

The class has been reduced to mindless mashing buttons on cool down. If you are going to trash the job like this, just unlock macro limitations so we can fully automate the rotation and turn the job into a glorified screen saver.

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Originally Posted by MOZZYSTAR

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They totally over-pruned it, and made some really weird decisions on what they pruned (instead of sidewinder) and made... an AOE sidewinder (why).... Oh, and and hopefully arms length will be able to negate Suzaku's songs, but if it can't: the addition will just makes no sense. Head grazes will probably be rare, Bind hasn't been like useful since PVP was introduced, and a single target heavy isn't useful to Physical ranged classes. So, it's just Second wind and peloton as the only useful/practical skills in all types of content. The changes to EA hurt as well in pre-lv 70 content

If you guys like talking few buttons, you should try MCH lol

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Originally Posted by Priya

Welp, guess I'll be looking into Bard. RDM has more active abilities than I'd like, now. An AoE rotation for dungeon trash doesn't need 4 unique abilities.

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Well I've got bad news for you then, because the interactions bard got in this expansion make dungeon aoe at max level more involved than it was at 70. You have the 2 dots, 2 aoes, and apex to manage, and now with apex you have to think more about the dots as well beyond just "how many do I need to keep my RoD procs constant", because you want those extra repertoire procs anyway for the soul gauge.


WRT ability prune, it definitely feels like a little too much got taken away, but in general I'm not too worried about it since the 40% repertoire proc rate means we have more procs to deal with (outside of army's) anyway. My one main beef with the class is that apex arrow is a GCD instead of an OGCD, it just feels so bad to use.