2.3 BiS Bard Equips?

Considering you can reach 390+ on T8 with macros with a novus wep and a dragoon, using macros is fine on my book. Mr Happy most likely has the 3 in 1 (GCD, BL, ME) macro or 2 in 1 (GCD, BL).

EDIT: Though I wouldn't normally use macros, especially not on T8, but they work fine especially if you are learning a new fight like T9 after 47% where you would most likely miss several of your BL procs.

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Originally Posted by Ooshima

Huh, the only time in T9 you will be attacking from front is:

1) If you are tanking the blue golems
2) Lunar Dynamo if you are not holding the thunderstruck debuff, by conventional strat

Why would you attack from the front most of the time in phase 4?

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For phase 4, my group has everyone stacked on tank for fires and thunder runs behind.

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Originally Posted by Zerker

For phase 4, my group has everyone stacked on tank for fires and thunder runs behind.

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Which is what I meant in point 2) Everyone in front of Nael with tank and thunderstruck behind Nael.

Other than for this situation and tanking blue golem, as a BRD you don't attack from front and demand the 515 frontal accuracy anyways.

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Originally Posted by Ooshima

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You could stand behind Nael until you need to move in for fires and beam, a lot more movement is required and greater chance of missing a fire in or getting clipped by a thunder. You might not always be able to be behind Nael while waiting for novas and you generally won't be behind it for divebombs. The grace period after divebombs you can attack from behind. There's enough times in the last phase when you will be attacking from the front to try and get as close as 515 as possible. So much BiS bard gear already has plenty of accuracy, so getting close to 515 isn't difficult.

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Originally Posted by PROBOUND

Out of curiosity would any of you know which set of BRD Macro's MR.Happy uses all the time? I always hear that macro usage is frowned upon but i see many BRDs still using them.

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Currently Mr.Happy only uses a macro for his buffs. It's debtable whether his dps has improved by doing bloodletter and misery's end manually. He misses a lot of procs.

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Originally Posted by LunarEmerald

Currently Mr.Happy only uses a macro for his buffs. It's debtable whether his dps has improved by doing bloodletter and misery's end manually. He misses a lot of procs.

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I can really only recommend not using macros for those with quick reactions. It requires a lot of dexterity (lol) to pull off each proc automatically, not with practice but practicality. The macro way is perfectly fine, and if you have a trigger finger the no buffer becomes less of an issue.

Also using the heavy/blood/misery macro is perfect in learning content that requires attention with mechanics.

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Originally Posted by Zerker

You could stand behind Nael until you need to move in for fires and beam, a lot more movement is required and greater chance of missing a fire in or getting clipped by a thunder. You might not always be able to be behind Nael while waiting for novas and you generally won't be behind it for divebombs. The grace period after divebombs you can attack from behind. There's enough times in the last phase when you will be attacking from the front to try and get as close as 515 as possible. So much BiS bard gear already has plenty of accuracy, so getting close to 515 isn't difficult.

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The thing is whether you do have those accuracy pieces or not, some people don't.

And really it isn't necessary. Throughout all my clears, I don't remember I am in the frontal zone in phase 4 other than stacking for Lunar Dynamo, Fire or maybe Thermionic Beam.

I am aware that some teams stack with the tank almost all the time, but this isn't my play style.