Bard Songs for Crafting

What would everyone think about giving Bards songs that gives crafters (or gatherers) a boost to their stats?

For example, party members within a close distance get a certain percentage increase to control/craftsmanship for 30-45 seconds.

Thought this might be a cool way of encouraging players to be social while crafting.

Crafting is already not useful enough without having to pay bards in order to do it.

It's a neat idea, keep em coming.

I'm not sure about those circumstances in particular. But we could use something to spice up bards and also crafting.

/agree

Better would be to talk with a NPC in (as example) the carpenter guild to get a carpenter buff for the next 30 minutes

What is this, Star Ocean? :) Let my bard play a sax while you're at it.

This idea will actually make bards have an unfair advantage over other classes on affecting something else outside of combat, making players feel obliged to level one. SE made each classes' role to stay in where they are, I mean having a combatant learning skills that doesn't benefit themselves at all during fights are kinda strange, right?

Also having a bard as main, I don't feel like getting hounded by other crafters asking me for that song buff whenever I'm around. If crafter/gatherer want some boost they can always ask FC leaders to activate the company action, rather than spamming "LF BRD for boost" in cities all the time. Just saying.

So Bards pretty much just get nothing out of it? ._.

how about we mix it up...

how about a class called... say... "Song Writer", and they can create and play music on their instruments.
Think of it like the system from that Mabinogi game where you create a short tune out of music sheets.

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Originally Posted by Radxen

So Bards pretty much just get nothing out of it? ._.

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People will tip you if you are good. Just like a street artist...

So your telling me you want to waste the next battle ability for bards on crafters? After they already recived a nerf & ninja nerf for battle already.
Hmmm somehow i get the feeling people dont understand what a battlesystem is for or just want to screw with classes to make them useless..

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Originally Posted by Jeykama

What is this, Star Ocean? :) Let my bard play a sax while you're at it.

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Hey, if I could play something other then a Harp as bard, I'd do it lol.

Basically all I got an image from this was - tying a bard to a post and force them to play songs while you craft. lol

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Originally Posted by prymortal

So your telling me you want to waste the next battle ability for bards on crafters? After they already recived a nerf & ninja nerf for battle already.
Hmmm somehow i get the feeling people dont understand what a battlesystem is for or just want to screw with classes to make them useless..

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Not sure I understand your post...this wouldn't have any affect on battle abilities. Just an extra ability you can quest for that can help FC mates or friends.

I think its a bad precedent to mix DoW and DoH classes.

Sounds fun! It would be refreshing since I'm always spamming songs in Ul'Dah.

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Originally Posted by Wolf_Gang

I think its a bad precedent to mix DoW and DoH classes.

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This is gonna come off sarcastic but it's not meant to be....care to expand on that? Just curious as to why that's a bad thing.