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

[Fyce]

Re-read my post and you'll see I saw if they screw up an "unreasonable amount", 1 death during a primal and I'll raise, if they die again I'll only raise if I consider them to be worth my Mana, it's rare for me to raise the same person twice.

My exception to this is if the other healer dies (on HM primals), i'll leave them dead and not raise them even once, that is because I get more commendations this way ;D mwrhrhr

P.S. "Sudden lag spikes" somehow seem to happen to the same people over and over ^_-

I don't understand.
At first, you said that you prefer a bard who never supports his party and keep DPSing, no matter what happens.
And now, you're just talking about a bard who won't sing for someone who made an "unreasonable amount" of mistakes?

Read my little chart again.
A bard who know when to sing and for who and manages to have a decent DPS is, at least "very good".

So yeah, I don't really see your point anymore.

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But my point is there is no fight where the DPS, once raised, would run out of TP maintaining their normal rotation. All those fights have breaks where Titan/Garuda/Ifrit/Whoever jumps or becomes invulnerable for a few ticks. Enough for TP to regain and for the DPS to at least maintain TP-equilibirum, more likely gain TP. Singing a song in this case lowers the overall party DPS by lowering your own.

You are contradicting yourself here.
If there is a phase in a fight when you can't DPS, allowing TP users to recover a bit, then same goes for the bard.
If you sing for TP during these phases, lowering your damage doesn't matter since you can't DPS anyway.

So, a good bard would take this opportunity to do a TP song to give a few ticks of TP regen for the team, and then turn it off when the "invulnerability phase" ends.

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It's your job as a healer to properly manage your mana, and not just chain-res stupid people until you have zero mana. Yes, sometimes mana runs out - but at this points it perfectly clear that party is just bad. Very bad. And then you can start spam your BRD with <se.10> to get ballad.
This is how it should be in a perfect world. But reality is much simpler - most WHM have no idea how to manage mana and heal properly, have overheal more than 50% and thus often have problems.

And if a WHM dies for whatever reason and get insta rez? You won't sing a balad to get him back up on MP? You prefer mocking that WHM saying "HAHA, YOU ARE BAD" and seing his MP sitting at 0 rather than singing a balad?

That's a bit cruel and unforgiving. Some might say "disgustingly elitist".