Bard Limit Break

[KittytheSheGeek]

Not this again. -__-

[Nutman88]

I took my LB off my bar. If it is necessary, we should just start over.

[cenie]

The LB is fine. I'm praying they don't change it to a DPS one.

[Vili]

I have used it countless time my self as someone else has said, and one of the times where level 3 and saved the fight. WHM does not have time to use it really. My only gripe, you are stuck for way to long after you do it, which got me killed once. They better not change it to DPS, plenty of other DPS on the floor that can do it.

[Veurr]

Mages ballad is the difference between winning titan at current gear levels and losing. I'd rather see bards with sidewinder or something equivalent, but I think melee dps would pretty much get ostracized completely at that point. As it stands now MNKs have to be completely amazing to get brought to anything.

I wonder if we will see a change to the ranged dps LB when/if they add that musketeer thing they were talking about for awhile.

But yeah, enjoy the fact people rarely make you do stuff. Also I'm going to take a guess that this post was prompted by a wipe to demon wall adds. Which you should probably be able to kill with no LB anyway.

[Lecreuset]

Yeah bard is fking awesome I don't know why you're complaining so much. The regen songs+battlevoice is insane regen for 30 seconds. The debuffs is pretty sweet as already mentioned.. -10% damage done by affected target.. 10% more elemental damage taken.. SLOW from feint if you cross from lancer.. You've just about almost crippled w/e it is your party is targetting. . I've used the Limit break often when the Healer is too busy spamming heals on "oh shit" moments where everyone is low but he/she has to prioritize the tank or else it's a wipe.

Insane cross skill class from pugilist depending on what you're doing. Internal release=more blood letter spam, Second wind crits for 600 heals. Invigorate=400 TP every minute 30 from lancer not to mention that lvl 34 skill whose name escapes me right now for more insane damage. Soloing? get more defensive abilities from those cross skills or stay with those dps crosses and blow em up before they can do any serious damage to you.

Seriously I dunno why people keep complaining about Bard. Do you just want to be able to do EVERYTHING better than every other class?

[Bardo]

Seriously I dunno why people keep complaining about Bard. Do you just want to be able to do EVERYTHING better than every other class?

That's probably not far off for some.
Lots of people are probably expecting Bard to have a niche that all but requires groups to pick them up a-la FFXI.

If we want to talk about the limit break, how about we ask for it to be more powerful than a single AoE heal (~200hp) which helps VERY little.

Personally, I'm more concerned with how HIDEOUS the AF pants look than the Limit Break. :S

[Themis]

Bard current LB is a life saver in hard mode. I have now used it countless time on Ifrit/Garuda. And only Bard can use it (healers do not have time for that)

I hope SE do not listen to bard whine because this is a tool that is really needed.

It also makes sense with what a Bard is all about, at least in my opinion. Going by the official description of Bard, their role is to pick up the group when morale is low. Morale is definitely low in a fight when half of your party is dead and your mages are out of MP. As a ranged class, Bard is at a good advantage to make brilliant use of this limit break.

What I do think, though, is that when more ranged classes are added (like Musketeer, perhaps) that a damage dealing ranged LB is provided which would be used, at least, by Archer (and possibly it's branching Job if something like Ranger - something purely DPS focused).