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[Viridiana]

What's the go-to BRD rotation? I've just been spamming skills, but i need a rotation xD

It's more like a priority list, but here you go:

1) Misery's End
2) Bloodletter
3) Straight Shot if the buff is about to end (should also be your opener, before Bloodletter)
4) Windbite/Venomous Bite, if the debuff is about to end
5) Straighter Shot procs
6) Heavy Shot

Mind you, Misery's End, Bloodletter, Flaming Arrow, and Blunt Arrow are all off-CD abilities and can be used whenever. Also, don't do what I keep doing and wasting TP going back through your opening rotation when you switch mobs.

[Kagalli]

It's more like a priority list, but here you go:

1) Misery's End
2) Bloodletter
3) Straight Shot if the buff is about to end (should also be your opener, before Bloodletter)
4) Windbite/Venomous Bite, if the debuff is about to end
5) Straighter Shot procs
6) Heavy Shot

Mind you, Misery's End, Bloodletter, Flaming Arrow, and Blunt Arrow are all off-CD abilities and can be used whenever. Also, don't do what I keep doing and wasting TP going back through your opening rotation when you switch mobs.

I see, thanks for the reply, going to practice this in some dungeon to get it down.

[Impendus]

Look up Mr.Happy on Youtube, he's got a couple bard vids I believe and explains a couple macro's as well that are usefull

Edit: This was intended to be directed at Kagalli but brain is currently fried from studying for my exam on tuesday and forgot to hit reply with quote... derp

Cheers

[Evari]

Foe requiem seems utterly useless even if there are classes that it increases the damage for. I can only keep it up for maybe a minute before Im out of MP. x_x Any tips on how/win to use it, if at all? Halp!

[pandabearcat]

Foe requiem seems utterly useless even if there are classes that it increases the damage for. I can only keep it up for maybe a minute before Im out of MP. x_x Any tips on how/win to use it, if at all? Halp!

First of all, it doesn't lower your dps, and is the only song that doesn't do so (the others all lower dps by 20%).

Second of all, you use it with bard's voice to double the effect to 20%.

If you use it with a BLM's cooldowns, everything (I mean everything) will melt. A raidwide (esp if you're running an AoE heavy 2-3 BLMs for say, garuda hm) damage bonus of 20% for 1 minute every 2-3 minutes? Thats pretty good!

It -should- affect all elemental attacks, but I haven't tested.

[LunarEmerald]

First of all, it doesn't lower your dps, and is the only song that doesn't do so (the others all lower dps by 20%).

Second of all, you use it with bard's voice to double the effect to 20%.

If you use it with a BLM's cooldowns, everything (I mean everything) will melt. A raidwide (esp if you're running an AoE heavy 2-3 BLMs for say, garuda hm) damage bonus of 20% for 1 minute every 2-3 minutes? Thats pretty good!

It -should- affect all elemental attacks, but I haven't tested.

I can confirm that it does increase the damage of Holy for White Mages.

[Morkel]

Mind you, Misery's End, Bloodletter, Flaming Arrow, and Blunt Arrow are all off-CD abilities and can be used whenever. Also, don't do what I keep doing and wasting TP going back through your opening rotation when you switch mobs.

I wouldn't say they are "off-CD abilities" They still have a "cast animation" that can delay your other shots. ATM at my level, I try to fit them 1 at a time in between GCD shots.

[Viridiana]

I wouldn't say they are "off-CD abilities" They still have a "cast animation" that can delay your other shots. ATM at my level, I try to fit them 1 at a time in between GCD shots.

Well, yeah, they have the animation lock, but you can still use them while everything else is on CD. That's more what I meant.