BRD needs a consolation song

The worst part of playing BRD is how if you die at the wrong moment, your rotation is a mess for the next two minutes. I crave a crappy song without a cooldown so that my bard can go doot doot rather than spending 45 seconds with nothing to do because I died or am at level 50. Level 50 bard only having two songs is also miserable.

This song could be strictly worse than the main three, as long as I don't stand there like a moron who lost all my sheet music and needs to wait for the rest of the band to stop before I can come in late.

Let me play a sad trombone.

I think BRD needs more attack rotation mechanics that don't require a song be active so that when you do die, and get back up, you can at least still have a game to play. BRD's only damage that exists in complete isolation from its songs are Barrage, Raging Strikes, its dots, and Sidewinder. You die during Wanderer's, you lose Pitch Perfect procs. You die in Mage's, you lose heartbreak Shot cool down reductions. you die in Army's, you lose the haste buff that affects Burst Shot, and Refulgent Arrow. You die during any song, you lose your gauge, you lose Apex, and Blast Arrow -- as well as Empyreal Arrow losing value from not being able to force Repertoire procs, and drifting. Your job stone may as well break when you die. It's too much.

I actually like the concept of requiring you to sing, but it needs recoverability. If I could go doot doot it would be okay. I want to go doot doot. I hate not having a song buff on my allies.

They just need to find solutions allowing to remove the recast on songs, but that would require extensive reworks or additions.

Simply don't die.

There's nothing wrong with a job being punishing. People have been begging for a 'fail state', here's a fail state.

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Originally Posted by koko-on-da-forumz

Simply don't die.

There's nothing wrong with a job being punishing. People have been begging for a 'fail state', here's a fail state.

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Omg, nobody had ever thought of this before! Bards are saved!

Skill wouldnt mind something of an encore skill that replays the last song used...

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Originally Posted by koko-on-da-forumz

Simply don't die.

There's nothing wrong with a job being punishing. People have been begging for a 'fail state', here's a fail state.

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Being punished with a worse song is still a fail state

If they made this song say “x echo” where it replays the song for half the effect, half the buff and half the proc chance you are still being heavily punished for dying but it doesn’t completely ruin your song rotation for like half the rest of the fight

Fail states are good, fail states that functionally can’t be fully corrected even with time are bad, even BLM you can fix it’s fail state by simply returning to ice and starting again

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

Being punished with a worse song is still a fail state

If they made this song say “x echo” where it replays the song for half the effect, half the buff and half the proc chance you are still being heavily punished for dying but it doesn’t completely ruin your song rotation for like half the rest of the fight

Fail states are good, fail states that functionally can’t be fully corrected even with time are bad, even BLM you can fix it’s fail state by simply returning to ice and starting again

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Yeah, exactly. I'm not looking for it to not punish you for dying; I'm looking for slightly less of a dunce cap each time you die where you're stuck being a silent bard. A song of shame that's simply worse than your normal song would give more recoverability while still giving plenty of incentive to not die.

Bard is currently the class with the biggest case of "don't die lol" and would benefit from a consolation prize. Dancer can get its dances back up quickly; Bard is stuck unable to build gauge for up to 45 seconds if you die. It hurts.

Concept: the song you're singing remains your song when you die. Dying gives you The Show Must Go On debuff that halves song efficiency for the next 30 seconds.

Alt: 5s cooldown terrible song called Miniscule Violin.

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

even BLM you can fix it’s fail state by simply returning to ice and starting again

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Oh man, I've had some good times after doing savage recently. Brain gone completely smooth from playing too much and just keep pressing the Fire IV button even though it's doing nothing. Lose Enochian and now have no MP to cast Blizzard. Good times lmao

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Originally Posted by koko-on-da-forumz

Simply don't die.

There's nothing wrong with a job being punishing. People have been begging for a 'fail state', here's a fail state.

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Yeah, let me just uh...teleport my stack partner to my position so that I don't die even though it's not me who messed up. Or ask Black Cat not to break the tile when a genius decides to aim themselves at the entire party.

i like the idea but think the problem is that your also an archer

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Originally Posted by Selvokaz

i like the idea but think the problem is that your also an archer

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What does that have to do with Bard’s song rotation though? And I mean, you stop being an Archer at level 30 lol, unless you want people to make Reddit posts about you on tales of DF