2.3 BiS Bard Equips?

[Zerker]

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You could stand behind Nael until you need to move in for fires and beam, a lot more movement is required and greater chance of missing a fire in or getting clipped by a thunder. You might not always be able to be behind Nael while waiting for novas and you generally won't be behind it for divebombs. The grace period after divebombs you can attack from behind. There's enough times in the last phase when you will be attacking from the front to try and get as close as 515 as possible. So much BiS bard gear already has plenty of accuracy, so getting close to 515 isn't difficult.

[Ooshima]

You could stand behind Nael until you need to move in for fires and beam, a lot more movement is required and greater chance of missing a fire in or getting clipped by a thunder. You might not always be able to be behind Nael while waiting for novas and you generally won't be behind it for divebombs. The grace period after divebombs you can attack from behind. There's enough times in the last phase when you will be attacking from the front to try and get as close as 515 as possible. So much BiS bard gear already has plenty of accuracy, so getting close to 515 isn't difficult.

The thing is whether you do have those accuracy pieces or not, some people don't.

And really it isn't necessary. Throughout all my clears, I don't remember I am in the frontal zone in phase 4 other than stacking for Lunar Dynamo, Fire or maybe Thermionic Beam.

I am aware that some teams stack with the tank almost all the time, but this isn't my play style.