Bards, Checking In!

[Darian]

IMO bard feels like it's in a good place to me. I love that I can support the group if needed but we are also legit DD.

[Medieval]

Bards are hard hitting dps with song spells. They will stay this way until hopefully Rangers come out. I speculate they will get a lot of their support style play buffed while rangers play the pure dps classes. Or they will stay the same because sqaure enix doesn't like support classes.

Until then. Fuck it, lets party like it's 1984

[Connor]

I think it needs to be a 50/50 as well or it needs to be 70% support and 30% damage. Bard in nature have been support orientated across final fantasy games.

As for the change to Bard changes in FFXIV here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gOooN8BmhY

Go to the discussion about bards near the end to see the changes.

I agree with you, I think Bard has sort of lost some of it's iconic support capabilities. I've checked a lot of what people are saying as well as had my own experiences with it in phase 3 & 4, and it seems the general consensus is that the support capabilities have been watered down a bit. Whether or not people agree or disagree with the idea is a different story. Of course, the whole point of the thread is to open up a dialogue with people both about whether they'll play Bard and what they hope from it / think of it.

[LordMaitreya]

A question to all Bards. Since its been confirmed that you are a dps class and you queue through the duty finder as a dps.

Do you plan to play songs much if at all? Or focus on "being #1" in some parse?

[cenie]

A question to all Bards. Since its been confirmed that you are a dps class and you queue through the duty finder as a dps.

Do you plan to play songs much if at all? Or focus on "being #1" in some parse?

What drew me to Bard was that it was support and dps. That is how I intend to play it.

Also, I'm rather upset if they did drop the Conjurer secondary for Pug/Lancer >_>

[Gyli]

A question to all Bards. Since its been confirmed that you are a dps class and you queue through the duty finder as a dps.

Do you plan to play songs much if at all? Or focus on "being #1" in some parse?

I'll focus being #1 with song usage.

Once a better support comes out I'll be switching over to that.

[RockyRacune]

Not pleased about this supposed change. My only intent was to be a Bard, but as support with damage, not damage with limited support. Is this indicative of fewer job roles? Can we ignore Bard and cross class Archer, or would that be even less effective?

[Talyn]

Was planning on playing Bard. I was attracted to the Support/DPS role. I'm on the fence with the possible changes.

If I do stick with Bard, to answer Lord Maitreya's question: I care not for any parse report. I'll focus on playing my class well and doing everything I can to support my party. If I'm in a party that cannot appreciate that and relies on a parser to tell them who is "pulling their weight" then we are not a good fit and I'll find others to party with.

[Roly_]

/wave bard here checking in ^^ I love the class/job it awesome

[Ragz]

Archer with cross class ability would only give you Swiftsong as only song, which is not that useful.