Bard songs

[dtv20]

Does anyone else think that the bard should have a healing buff song and melee buff song?

[Defteros]

he already has these songs.
mana and tp regen are healing/melee buffs.

[Ejell]

Does anyone think the "song" system is bad? I mean, i'd rather support my team with active skills or rotations, not with a "passive" buff nerfing my dps...

The amount of supporting the brd offer to his team should have been dependent of the stuff and the skill of the player...

[Strify]

I think we should have had more than 4 songs... and losing dps to keep songs active sucks. Feels like a joke compared to ffxi brd

[Defteros]

I think we should have had more than 4 songs... and losing dps to keep songs active sucks. Feels like a joke compared to ffxi brd

you can attack while moving.
casters can't.

you can attack wherever the boss/mob moves.
melee can't.

so just stop asking for a "powerup" for a class that can basically attack non-stop, and don't and will never need it.

as for the songs, with the expansion Bards probably will learn 1 or 2 new songs, so you only have to wait xD

[KingOfAbyss]

Pretty sure something will come around with the Lvl cap raise.

I'm in for Healing, but it should be very low, not to interfere with the real Healers. (so we would have regen TP, MP, and HP)

How about a Morale song, to lift our spirits in combat? Might give everyone +3 to stats as long as MP is up.
(adjust the +3 as needed, just here for reference and we need to think the balance of the game.)

[Defteros]

Pretty sure something will come around with the Lvl cap raise.

I'm in for Healing, but it should be very low, not to interfere with the real Healers. (so we would have regen TP, MP, and HP)

How about a Morale song, to lift our spirits in combat? Might give everyone +3 to stats as long as MP is up.
(adjust the +3 as needed, just here for reference and we need to think the balance of the game.)

I think that the "morale" song wuold just interfere in some way with pvp..
and aside from that, you already have echo in most of endgame duty, so it would be kinda useless...

[KaerisKlyne]

Ballad and Paeon reduce dps output, but Foe's doesn't. I always have foes active if there's a BLM/SMN in the party and the healers have told me they'll be fine for MP. I really think Bard is less about "wow this dps loss is terrible" and more about knowing when during a fight it's ok to take that dps loss to offer party support in preparation for something else coming up in the fight. Probs not possible in every fight the game offers, but I haven't had problems doing that it way yet and I've been maining a Bard since I started :/

[Seoulstar]

I think that the "morale" song wuold just interfere in some way with pvp..
and aside from that, you already have echo in most of endgame duty, so it would be kinda useless...

Are you just sitting here refreshing the page to reply to nearly everyone? lol

[Defteros]

Are you just sitting here refreshing the page to reply to nearly everyone? lol

someone can say it is something like "having a discussion with someone", but if you put it that way, that makes me feel a stalker.
or, just someone really bored at work.