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  1. #21
    Player
    mirth12's Avatar
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    Uld'ah
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    Mirth Alfa
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    Gilgamesh
    Main Class
    Arcanist Lv 50
    BRD seems to be one of the best healer/caster interupt classes atm, they have decent sustained damage and can ever burst if you pop all your CD's at once and hit something. Unfortunately BRD suffers from the fact that other classes atm fill their role much bettter specifically SMN. There is no reason to bring a BRD over a SMN.
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  2. #22
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    nickx's Avatar
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    Character
    Calien Nightstalker
    World
    Odin
    Main Class
    Archer Lv 70
    After about 400-500 games, I can tell you that BRD is in a good spot. We are not overpowered, but not weak. Shadowbind has proven very useful to rooting melee/tanks off you or your teammates (especially your healer). I highly recommend using this ability as often as possible, even right at the beginning to maybe force an enemy to use their purify off the bat. You also have the ability to constantly interrupt casting on a caster if you are able to stick on them and attack, as well as silence a caster for 1 second. In higher level play, this silencing shot has proven very useful. For example, if your kill target is a summoner, set the healer as your focus target. Make a macro to set your silencing shot to shoot your focus target. Then, when the summoner is under 30% health, make sure you are in LoS of both the healer and the summoner and focus silencing shot the healer to lock him/her out and hopefully finish the summoner.
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  3. #23
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    Jadi's Avatar
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    Jadi Kama
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    Sargatanas
    Main Class
    Conjurer Lv 50
    Quote Originally Posted by x037x View Post
    From a WHM perspective, Bards are my worst nightmare. 2x Bards is hell, it is very difficult to kite 2 bards, and when I say difficult I mean Im going to be at or under 50% HP the entire fight. With the horrible lag and such in this game, kiting around walls doesn't do much, the arrows seem to have heat seeking sensors and that turn corners and bullseye me between the eyes everytime. I'm not complaining, more power to you guys, if I had a bard, I would always go after healers for the interrupt potential and sustained damage.
    ^ this. BRD's are quite good and they destroy caster jobs.
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  4. #24
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    Cymoril's Avatar
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    Cymoril Kinslayer
    World
    Gilgamesh
    Main Class
    Arcanist Lv 50
    Maybe the bards are playing their class wrong? I don't have one, but from what Ive read its an excellent harasser/interrupt class for casters.
    What I think it needs is a TP buff if it doesn't have one similar to Ballad, a higher resistance to sleep, with an extra skill in its tree to cure sleep. The downfall would be a weaker resistance to Cold and Disease.
    I saw a convo in this thread about Dots breaking sleep. What I have tested, the first tic of any dot breaks the sleep. So, if someone can time their sleep after a dot or 2 go off then the person being Zzzzd will tic down and slowly die.
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    Someday I will find a PvP oriented game that will be as much fun as Dark Age of Camelot was in its heyday.. <still looking>

  5. #25
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    Yrusama's Avatar
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    Limsa Lominsa
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    Character
    Y'ruh Tia
    World
    Sargatanas
    Main Class
    Botanist Lv 99
    I think BRD, like a lot of dps, suffers from really long queue times. On top of that it doesn't have nearly the success rate as a SMN or BLM. I'm starting to see a huge gap between the people that started as tanks and the people that started as dps, at least in terms of gear. Having better PVP gear amounts to having more wins, and the gap widens.

    A lot of balancing needs to be done, particularly in the area of BLM, SMN, MNK, and DRG, and it takes too damn long to learn skills that you can't use nearly often enough. I fully buffed Purify, but I still can't use it more than once per fight unless it REALLY drags on.

    I think I'd mostly be happier if there was more reward for winning. How does 100 marks and 50 wolf exp sound? It's taken me since the patch came out to get my i70 bow, and shortly after I found out it wasn't worth it compared to Relic +1.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rukkirii View Post
    I'll save you Yoshida!

    /casts Raise

  6. #26
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    Epistane's Avatar
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    Character
    Epistane Havoc
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    Midgardsormr
    Main Class
    Archer Lv 50
    So far 516 games played and 327 wins (which isn't really great but it's decent I spose) and just like nickx said, we're not overpowered, but not underpowered. We're just right for PvP IMHO. Get a good scholar, and a good warrior/marauder and you you're good to go. Add a summoner to and its gg
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  7. #27
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    Midara's Avatar
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    Character
    Midara Meseta
    World
    Odin
    Main Class
    Archer Lv 50
    Bards are just good in chasing on the Paper, they can use Sprint cause if Invigorate, but if the fight goes on you'll need Icarus Wing or the PvP TP skill, otherwise you'll run out of TP very easily.
    You can only chase a BLM rly good, a SMN/SCH can easily apply heavy on you and just backpaddel away, especially SCH are annoying, WHM just can kick and sleep you, cause you cant rotate while bind.

    At least the most guys underestimate me or are just bad and i can chase them easily due to not getting immobilized.

    I managed to get a 89% Winrate atm and i only do duo queue with a MRD and no fotm combos.
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  8. #28
    Player LongNu's Avatar
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    Longnu Era
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    Zalera
    Main Class
    Lancer Lv 50
    Quote Originally Posted by Midara View Post
    i only do duo queue with a MRD and no fotm combos.
    MRD is FOTM...
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  9. #29
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    Midara's Avatar
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    Midara Meseta
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    Odin
    Main Class
    Archer Lv 50
    Quote Originally Posted by LongNu View Post
    MRD is FOTM...
    Ye, thats why i dont play with SMN, BLM or SCH, cause my melee mate is fotm enough to rule them all.

    MRD does a bit high dmg, but he suffers like every melee from that imbalanced kiting, so he cant be fotm.
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  10. #30
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    NightWrath's Avatar
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    Character
    Night Wrath
    World
    Behemoth
    Main Class
    Archer Lv 50
    fotm stands for?

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