The UN (official) ARCH/BARD Feedback Thread

[Silvyaniss]

This thread is to consolidate all feedback for Arch/Bard to include

Combat (combat fixes)
Animation
cross class skills
Armor gear/weapons
screenshots

There seems to be to kind of players that want to support this class

o those unhappy with the job Bard and would rather be full archer
and those happy with the Bard job.

o As it stands the Archer has many useless skills and so does the Bard like (swiftsong)

It has been my experience that the Arch/Ranger class has been neglected in almost all MMO's that I've beta tested and played and FF14 is no exception and this is unacceptable. To say that the Arch/Bard class job combo is complete needs no tweaking would be a severe understatement. I will edit this post tomorrow but you guys feel free to let Square Enix know what's going on with this class.

[Sethys]

I was rather disappointed to see that becoming a bard cost me many of my cross-class ability slots.

And I want to be able to play a variety of music as emotes.

[NeonC]

I actually like both, but the progression to Bard makes little sense to me. It would of been more logical to have a Arch->Ranger->Sniper->Musketeer(not in this order obviously) progression.

[RonPierce]

- Fix instant abilities so you don't have to press them 100 times to activate them (raging strikes is the worst about this).
- Give us a Damage limit break OR (better yet) a support limit break that increases Damage/healing done by the whole party by 5/10/15% for 20 seconds, and effect being a song.
(not exact numbers, but just an idea as for support base)
- Create on-screen visuals showing when procs show up so we can spend more time looking at the game and less looking at the UI (blood letting and straighter shot)
- Have procs show up faster so we have more time to react and we don't notice straighter shot proced just .5 seconds before the global cooldown is back.

[LunarEmerald]

What disappoints me about bard is that you can't hear a song continually playing while singing. You don't feel like a bard. You just slap on a buff that affects those around you. I think this would be useful for others to immediately know when the bard is singing. You don't always have time to look at your buffs to see.

- Better indicator when a bard is singing
- Change the limit break to something that deals damage or helps deal damage
- Make swiftsong not disappear when zoning and preferably doesn't disappear when fighting. (it just stops working till the fight ends)

[RonPierce]

Yeah, a more basic version of the song would be nice on a loop so long as it doesn't become annoying/obnoxious!

[ruskie]

The only thing that bugs me about bard is that it lossese a ton of cross class. I like having a backup cure on hand and so on. They really should have kept that(PUG, LNC, CNJ cross class would work).

The limit break I must admit could be a more support oriented or DD oriented one. Or maybe make it special by allowing to select which of the two to launch.

[Adera]

Losing ton of cross class isn't just a Bard problem. It's the same for all jobs. You win some, you lose some.

[Bije]

Give Repelling Shot an enmity dump. Please. It just seems to fit, and we could use something a little more substantial than Quelling Strikes.

That is, if we are doomed to be a DPS class. I would prefer to have a role more focused on support, but that's just not how it is at the moment.

[Lewtz]

The ability to see other's tp pools for our TP regen would be nice.