Tank needing Bard's opinion

[Akirakogami]

it's annoying yes. it takes 3 hours to cast and reduces our damage and you really don't need it.

My question is for melee dps and mages. How hard is it to cast limit break when you are supposed to?

[Teleniel]

As a bard, if you don't *NEED* ballad, I'm probably not going to cast it. -20% DPS is that much longer things are alive. That being said if I'm in a party with Pld, Whm, Blm, *Brd... and the Whm wants to use Holy, then yeah I'll use Ballad the quick stun and high damage is worth making sure they don't MP-out. Now if you're sleeping pulls and doing lock-out, you do NOT need ballad.

[ExiaQuanta]

for WP Speeds i Do leave Ballad up for the pulls. but once we hit bosses, i take it off. I leave it up cause the WHM Holy Spams. The more AoE Spams we do, the harder for the Tank to Hold hate with out spamming flash. But really it depends on the Tank though.

IMO if its needed than it should be used, if nots really necessary than it shouldnt be used.

[Songi]

it's annoying yes. it takes 3 hours to cast and reduces our damage and you really don't need it.

My question is for melee dps and mages. How hard is it to cast limit break when you are supposed to?

OMG! So many times I tell the other DPS in group BEFORE the fight "use limit break at 25% of boss HP" 99% of the time they will either wait until 5% and totally waste a lvl 2 or not limit break at all. Seriously give bards a real limit break in 2.1 so I don't have to rely on someone else to do something so braindead for me.

[Leon_Stormrage]

Emmmm... really? Bards replying to this thread with things like "learn how to keep your mp" and "it's annoying cast a song my 20% of damage is more valuable "¿
I have no words to express my deception...

[Edewen]

The op said when he queued in df. End of conversation. No you don't get a mana song as a tank because I won't encourage speed run mentality in a duty finder. Period.

If you want to speed run. Make a group, and any good bard will sing for you happily. But if you queue for a duty finder run, don't expect a speed run and do not pull multiple groups.