bard mains Need a buff to party buffs

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

So you want Foe's Requiem back.

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Yes. Foe's Requiem actually required some thought. A big part of the complaints numerous Bard mains have is how the removal of Foe's and Crit scaling took away any sort of agency from the job. Before you needed to think of your Foe timings, which were dependent on your comp. And Crit scaling meant you could manipulate Iron Jaws under raid buffs. While the latter definitely had power creep issues. Instead of making meaningful adjustments, they took it all away, reducing Iron Jaws to "press this at 3s".

Passive buffs are incredibly boring and lazy design. They have no impact on the user's gameplay and if removed tomorrow (with potencies buffed to compensate) would change absolutely nothing on how Bard plays or rotates its songs. This is why despite Bard functionally being very similar to its Stormblood iteration, it went from being the most popular DPS in the game to fighting with Monk for the least.

You can kick and you can scream

But complex jobs are never coming back!

All hail our casual overlords

We will know in mid September when they go over each jobs battle changes. I hope they listened to the feedback from the bard community. They absolutely destroyed this job in Shb to make room for dancer and now it’s their turn to make it right. Yoshi said there are some jobs that got completely overhauled and will play pretty differently than it currently does. Hopefully bard is on that list.