Bard Nerfs Offically Confirmed

[Crescent_Dusk]

I think more than the damage is the fact that manasong is mandatory beause mana regen is so crucial at the current level of gear people have.

I just don't see many groups doing Turn 4 without manasong. How in hell would they even attempt Turn 5 without manasong?

The bard songs are too essential, and they can't nerf them even though they are the main reason why bards are guaranteed a spot in a raid over other classes because if they nerf bard songs some content is going to become impossible.

Instead of touching bard damage, they need to buff base TP regen and mana regen for classes, and in turn decrease the effectiveness of the songs. Or if not they should spread these capabilities to other classes so that you don't have bard as the only option for raid resource maintenance.

There's no such thing like " We must bring a monk/dragoon/summoner/BLM to be able to do this encounter". Monks and dragoons are interchangeable, you just want one for a limit break, and the same goes for summoner and black mage. Only the bard has exclusive, mandatory perks for a raid out of all the DPS.

You can build a raid group without any of the other DPS. You cannot build a raid group without a single bard.

[Anonydort]

Instead of touching bard damage, they need to buff base TP regen and mana regen for classes, and in turn decrease the effectiveness of the songs. Or if not they should spread these capabilities to other classes so that you don't have bard as the only option for raid resource maintenance.

really? SE has already been pushing BRD towards a pure DD role since alpha, and now you want them to get rid of the one thing that makes the job unique? what they should really do is add cast time to our abilities (which changes absolutely nothing, the whole argument that bards have too much mobility is just plain stupid, but at least it'll get people off of our backs) and actually improve our utility to be more bard-like (just make songs auras or something, no mp cost, reduced potency, add more viable tunes for us to sing, i don't know), and not like some Ranger rejects with tacked on songs