Bard needs a new support:

[RogueSpecter]

Lets have a little fun! I would like to see people vote on which ability you would like to see return in XIV from prior Final Fantasy titles.

Taken From Final Fantasy IV:

#1
Lullaby; Initial Puts enemies to Sleep.

#2
Alluring Air; Initial Confuses enemies.

#3
Life's Anthem; Continuously restores party's HP for a period of time.

#4
Hastemarch ; Casts Haste on the entire party.

#5
Hero's Rhyme; Boosts all stats of party by 10%

There were plenty more, but most would not be fitting with FFXIV in mind (I mean, casting Toad would be a little weird lol.)

[Kaela]

<.< I dunno about anyone else but I want the charm that the moogle bard uses during King Moogle Mog.

[RogueSpecter]

First off, Why isn't haste in the game?!!! I mean with Skill speed being so unatractive at endgame, and everyone only choosing DTRM on gear, having haste on a bard would be benifical for wiping trash mobs! Granted I would like to see a huge Cooldown Reset option to keep it balenced!

Lullaby! This is something I don't understand, BLM can use Sleep, but I cant sing an opponent to sleep?!?!? Kinda making the role-playing of bard pointless... This needs to be added!

Alluring Air, needs to be in game, in fact Confusion in general needs to be added as a status effect!!!!

Hastemarch. Same thing here, need haste in game!

Boost all Party by 10%, would like too with a OGCD 180sec timer would be fair!

[Jinko]

Lullaby and charm are all well and good but don't provide much utility when it comes to single target boss fights. (reason I say this is, chances of getting one new skill is good, asking for multiple new ones is unlikely)

Haste would be a nice idea, a regen ability would also be good similar to Army's Paeon in FF11.

To the above, haste is in the game, Selene would like a word with you, of course nobody uses her in dungeons/end game content. (I think she would like a word with everybody >.>)

[Skivvy]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post2070291

[RogueSpecter]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post2070291

I disagree with the OP on this! Bards have a history of healing in FF games! Granted they don't have a consistent healing ability in this one, but the LB should remain the same! It's the only link remaining to a true bard!!!!

[Skivvy]

I disagree with the OP on this! Bards have a history of healing in FF games! Granted they don't have a consistent healing ability in this one, but the LB should remain the same! It's the only link remaining to a true bard!!!!

Sorry, I think i must have had the other thread on my mind. I had taken "support" to mean purely the LB. If that's what this is about, I would then still refer you to add your comments to the other thread, but in rereading, I think you mean more for songs/battle support, etc.

[DarkStar]

A Bard ability from previous FFs? Hmm, how about Hide? I mean, it was Edward's personal ability in FFIV. >w>

[Inosaska]

The bard in this game is more of a DPS class then a support class as it doesn't have a huge amount of support abilities to aid the party.

[RogueSpecter]

The bard in this game is more of a DPS class then a support class as it doesn't have a huge amount of support abilities to aid the party.

And that is why it needs more (job based) abilities! Having only 3 major songs is kinda lame.... 2 of which are only useful if coordinating with party. Which brings me to my next point! Army's Paeon, why is there no TP meter to see in game for PARTY?