LF BRD : a solid opener + rotation

So i decided to take a break from SMN for a while and I've been testing my Brd rotations with the a12s dummy. I can break the dummy with 12-16 seconds left on the clock (ilvl 269) i feel way behind everyone else (with my SMN I can break it with 46 secs left) . I must be missing something somewhere. When watching a video to compare is o difficult to follow a brd rotation cause RNG (blood letter procs etc)

Could someone be kind enough to help with a good opener and first phase rotation?

Thanks x

(My stats : Acc 672 no food Critical 1182 det 440 SS 800+) around this numbers

Hope this helps :)

Thank you deer I'll have a look! Thanks for replying!

followed that link to the openers. I mained bard for a good while till my company need a tank. that opener is garbage. Foe's requiem ONLY helps spell casters. It does not help monks, dragoons, ninja's or tanks to DPS much. People seem to miss the tooltip "Reduces all enemy magic resistance by 10%." If you wan't doing magic damage, than you're wasting MP and your own damage by putting this up. Poison from venomous bite isn't magic and the only magic damage bards do is the little bit from windbite. not worth throwing your MP around for 10% increase for just you. Bards are meant to be ranged support, you have to weight which songs to use and when. if you waste your MP for minimal boost to only your damage and your healer needs mana for some reason, you have no MP to help. Things to think about

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Originally Posted by drgnmstr44

followed that link to the openers. I mained bard for a good while till my company need a tank. that opener is garbage. Foe's requiem ONLY helps spell casters. It does not help monks, dragoons, ninja's or tanks to DPS much. People seem to miss the tooltip "Reduces all enemy magic resistance by 10%." If you wan't doing magic damage, than you're wasting MP and your own damage by putting this up. Poison from venomous bite isn't magic and the only magic damage bards do is the little bit from windbite. not worth throwing your MP around for 10% increase for just you. Bards are meant to be ranged support, you have to weight which songs to use and when. if you waste your MP for minimal boost to only your damage and your healer needs mana for some reason, you have no MP to help. Things to think about

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Foe req doesn't lower your dps. Dunno why so many bards think it does.

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Originally Posted by drgnmstr44

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Windbite isn't magical. To be exact, BRDs do no magic damage what-so-ever. Throwing your MP for increased magic damage is more useful than not using it at all. All casters, including healers, in your party benefit from it. Foe's Requiem doesn't reduce your DPS except for the short cast time, so why not do it? You only sing MP/TP when needed later in the fight, most of the time it isn't even needed (read: all casual content).

Did you really main BRD?

If you're in progression and worried about healers going OOM, the answer is to have some ethers handy so that you can sing even if you burn your MP out. You realistically shouldn't need Pots for prog unless they do another Gordias, and by the time you're clear-ready and pushing final enrage the healers shouldn't have surprise mana issues.

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seriously hoping this is a troll post. to answer the only potentially valid point in your post, if your healers need mana before you can refill your ENTIRE mana bar after singing foes for the duration at the beginning of the fight, something probably went terribly wrong. even if this isn't the case and you do need mana early on for your healers, you can at least sing foesfor the duration of BV and then recharge your mana early.

So coming back to this thread i made few weeks back. I'm comfortable with my opening now but for some reason i cannot pass 2100k dps

I'm ilvl270
Accuracy 703
Skill speed 818
Critical 1120
Determination 565

I decided to go into videos and have a look at what am missing or what I'm doing wrong.its impossible to follow a rotation due RNG procs.

I can break the a12s dummy conformably with 7secs left. my top one was 17 seconds left no idea how.

I've done this without food or pots. Could someone be honest enough to tell me what's the time left on the a12s dummy with your rotation? With no food or pots.

I need to understand where I'm going wrong and i think is on the second raging strikes and hawks eye.

Thanks in advance

(Only started using bard since the day i posted this thread)

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Originally Posted by Mature

I need to understand where I'm going wrong and i think is on the second raging strikes and hawks eye.

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I'm no BRD main and I don't know if this applies to maximizing SSS, but are you doing the following:
-Always use Hawks Eye and Blood for blood together?
-Always double Iron Jaws during HE+BfB, once at start and just before buffs fall off?
-Always Barrage Empyreal Arrow in the same window?
-Use your oGCDs in the right potency priority if you have many available?