WHY ARE YOU PLAYING A BARD IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO SING?!

[Mugiawara]

-Eats Jelly beans;
Let's see what we got here on the XIV forums this Sunday.

It is a safe assumption that the people born on god's green earth are given the blessing of two (2) functioning eyeballs that can look at the party list, and the miracle of the human mind that can make decisions based on observation independently.

I laughed so loud in rl to this .. xD!

IMO, they kinda messed up Bard...by trying to make it a support...and a DPS...whereas it should of been either or...
typically bards are full supports but I have no idea what they try to do.

- Mana lost is a rarity, unless the WHM is sitting out long fights, or died.
- The TP thing is if one of your tanks died I guess, a lot people have that one TP boost.
- Swift song...well...I think this should increase attacks in battle IMO for a while or movement speed. Will help for those and AoE hits.
- FoR - I see this the absolute most.


Also in 4 mans, they try to give you a Melee and a range DPS. So yeah. They're much more useful in 8 man or 24 man.
Though sometimes it won't hurt to ask for a song to be played. It wouldn't hurt to communicated some of the time, folks.

[Lemuria]

The big handicap for a Bard is using songs effectively. Remember, that every time they're using Ballad or Paeon they're losing out on 20% of their total damage. Which means the party is missing out. I'm not saying they shouldn't be used, but it's down to the Bard to decide when it's going to be most effective.

Sometimes its better for MP for the mob to die faster than it is to cut your damage and boost the White Mage for a bit. Natural regeneration is fairly rapid either way, so out of combat it's rarely an issue.

[Laughlyn]

I heard black mages love foe requiem & goes bonkers when used in ST.
And i give em what they want & i just enjoy the fireworks

oh ya, thats a free tip to the nub black mages... if you see that foe requiem pop...
thats your cue to go crazy with your sparkly spells.
(the bard is most likely expecting it.)

[Rhas]

Or watching a Blm just stand there for x number of seconds because they did their rotation wrong and ran out of mp.

That's what transpose is for. I mistime occasionally but it barely even affect my rotation. Just add in a running scathe or two to reposition pop off a bliz 3 and my rotation is back on. Heck, you don't even need to do that, you can use.... convert.... immediately then a bliz 3 to get back into rotation.

[IshidaTsukuyomi]

BRD is a support class so it is like telling a WHM to actually use their heals. It can be confusing going with the generic representation of BRD that's an archer with the ability to buff occasionally, rather than a buffer with the ability to hold their own. Even the original FF BRDs can hold their own, even in XI, just not on the same level as other fighters.

Regardless though, I've seen plenty of eventually wipes because BRDs who won't use Mage's Ballads after us healers constantly raise either them or other people who don't know how avoid death.

There are no support jobs in the game currently, bard is a dps with support like actions. So, your whole statement is invalid

[Tupsi]

There are no support jobs in the game currently, bard is a dps with support like actions. So, your whole statement is invalid

It can be confusing going with the generic representation of BRD that's an archer with the ability to buff occasionally

Which is exactly what I stated.

[reality_check]

DPS is NOT your job. If you are not going to save at least SOME MP to do the job that you are there for NO OTHER REASON to do, that is YOUR bad, not mine. You are not a DPS, you are a healer.

A White Mage holying trash will do at LEAST double the amount of damage you could ever do as a bard. Do your job and give them a ballad.

[Riviere]

A White Mage holying trash will do at LEAST double the amount of damage you could ever do as a bard. Do your job and give them a ballad.

If a WHM runs out of MP for spamming Holy, then he's doing his job wrong.

[Cylla]

A White Mage holying trash will do at LEAST double the amount of damage you could ever do as a bard. Do your job and give them a ballad.

Did you happen to miss the, "Balled not even strong enough to allow a WHM to keep holy spamming" or you just blind? Oh wait, guess your attitude alone answers that. No less a GOOD whm would know when to stop holy spamming and have enough mana to keep their party alive without a brd having to do balled. If they are holy spamming down to nothing in mana, they are just abusing the fact that there a bard there. Just saying.

[reality_check]

If a WHM runs out of MP for spamming Holy, then he's doing his job wrong.

The more Ballad a white mage has the more they can holy the faster you clear the trash.