Does archer get more interesting at end-game?

[Sinaloa]

If you are interested in clicking many buttons bard is fine. Easy to Play and screwing up things (progs, prio, rota...) doesn´t hurt as much as with other classes. That said bards do also get duties other dps don´t get. Addkiting, interrupting, songduties... Fullfilling those duties and keeping up a-game rises the difficulty to lets say moderate.

Hard to Play? No - Interesting? Yes. - Usefull? Yes. Your pick.

[Satsui]

Remove your BL and ME from your heavy shot macro (you're hurting your dps by having oGCD attacks on a macro with a GCD). This makes bard more interesting as well because you have to weave in oGCD abilities that can refresh at a extremely fast pace between your GCD's in order to maximize dps.

General rule for playing bard the right way: Never macro oGCD abilities onto a GCD (unless you want to do less than optimal dps and sleep while you are playing your class).

[Lecreuset]

off topic but I'd pick a summoner over a bard, even though I am one, anytime for the instant res just because the other people in my coil group aren't bad and actually know how to silence(scholar/monk included)

[energeisT]

No, BRD is super easy and super boring.

[Black91CRX]

I love Bard. It may be the simplest rotation but that's a good thing in my eyes. Let's me concentrate on what's going on above my hot bar.

[Alkimi]

Remove your BL and ME from your heavy shot macro (you're hurting your dps by having oGCD attacks on a macro with a GCD). This makes bard more interesting as well because you have to weave in oGCD abilities that can refresh at a extremely fast pace between your GCD's in order to maximize dps.

General rule for playing bard the right way: Never macro oGCD abilities onto a GCD (unless you want to do less than optimal dps and sleep while you are playing your class).

Having the 3 in 1 macro is fine, just always have Heavy Shot first so the GCD ability is always prioritised over the other 2. Forcing yourself to pay attention to Bloodletter resets and Misery's End recasts and instantly react accordingly would just be a decrease in damage for most people.

[Mikedizzy]

Bard is very interesting at end game in my opinion and some fights are all on you with having to Silence certain abilities like:
1. Chimeras Ram's Voice
2. ADS's High Voltage on T1 and T2.
Of course every job is subjective to who is playing it...I think Bard is very fun and rewarding to play. As I am on my 3rd 50 which is my WHM...I am finding that playing a Healer class is VERY AWESOME and rarely boring. At low levels not too much to do but a ton to do on harder fights. Melee DPS Dragoon is fantastic and really fun.
Hope this helps you decide.

[Satsui]

Having the 3 in 1 macro is fine, just always have Heavy Shot first so the GCD ability is always prioritised over the other 2. Forcing yourself to pay attention to Bloodletter resets and Misery's End recasts and instantly react accordingly would just be a decrease in damage for most people.

Yes, it is fine if you mind doing sub optimal DPS. There is another thread regarding this if you want more information as I don't want to get off topic. TLDR = Playing bard sub optimally by using a 3 in 1 macro makes it a boring class. Playing one correctly as I have stated makes it much more difficult as you pointed out (most people can't because it is too difficult so they go the easy road). To the OP, if you want to play the class correctly, there is a lot to pay attention to playing an end game bard.

[SkyHighDN]

Do everyone a favor and stop gloating about how much better of a DPS you are than everyone else....

Not everyone plays this game on PC..... Macro's are definitely useful for the PS3 gamers that get the core 10 abilities, 5 class abilities, and 5 cross class abilities with only 16 button spaces per page without having to use the L1 rotate skill sets to access the one global cool down that gets mixed into your rotation....

If we could set 4 full pages of skill sets on our main screen... sure, we'll do it your way.

Myself, being an end game bard.... dont see any problem putting BL and ME onto the HS macro.... as long as it is in that order with no waits in between. they fire off in priority. and saves me needed space for other buttons...... or is it not important to have Quick Nock at the ready than having to flip pages to look for it while dodging AOE's

[Satsui]

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SkyHighDN, I apologize for coming off as gloating as that was not my intent (I don't think I ever said "hey look at me i'm an awesome dps). I was simply trying to advise the OP that playing a bard "CAN" be more than just spamming keys 1-4. It seems the OP was wondering if the class ever gets "more difficult", in which my answer is, "Yes it does, if you want to play it at an optimal level and squeezing out the maximum dps from the class".

I understand that macro's do help people especially for people playing on gamepads. You can get by all content in this game by macro'ing your oGCD abilities to your GCD's if you want to. If you want to squeeze that extra 10% dps from your class, you can do that as well while adding more difficulty.