Quote Originally Posted by mero-ix View Post
You mean, like healer LB?

It seems pretty obvious that SE had BRD in mind as a support class when they created them. Not sure why you're arguing that. Who knows how they'll end up changing them come the expansion since their views on the classes has changed (possibly getting rid of the "class" and the whole split job (arcanist) they decided to not continue with, etc). I'm glad they're giving individual jobs their own LB too.

I used to raid as DRG for a year up until FCoB when I switched to BRD. It's a lot easier to maintain striking dummy dps on BRD than it is on DRG. BARDS DON'T NEED A BUFF. There are just a lot of poorly played Bards and they need to get better at knowing how to maintain dps while also playing songs, etc. Don't pop your buffs if you have a song up nerfing your damage. Don't leave songs up unnecessarily long. Work with your raid members to minimize the usage of songs as much as possible. Whining to SE for a buff to a class that's, imo, already overpowered, is not going to solve your inability to play your job.
1.0 EXISTED u know , at the time bard got awesome buffs that didnt gimped the dps
ballad didnt have 20% dmg nerf

TP = bard drained his own tp to give tp regen

minuet = song that boosted ACC and Magic ACC

battlevoice = buffed HP on top of x2 the effect of the song

bard back then was a good dps with utility. Healer LB exist because isnt a mage (so no meteor for u , and because is ranged , so why create another LB, attach healer lb and done with it....)

2- there a lot of bads in every job , telling ppl that are bad and l2p is a bad way to prove your point


As lots of ppl said Weapon dmg is a problem , and if it continues that trend will be a huge problem later on (if SE doesnt change how bard works in the expansion , something that i really doubt , since they said that dont want support jobs at all )

Bards support? , what about smn? eye for eye , virus , rez in combat? , ninja with dmg boost for the whole party , stun silence on the same job ,Goad, and slashing debuff .....

every class bring something , stun ,silence , weapon debuff , rez , stats debuffs (monk int debuff is awesome in Fcob), virus , e4e ect

Brds are still a dps class , and if things doesnt change ppl will only use bards on progression raids , then change job to another dps , because ballad is nice to have? yeah when healers are learning or gearing...after that meh.

Tp song is awesome but u can use 2x nin, while boosting the party dps by a lot with 3 slashing jobs on party (war and ninx2) , doble Trick attack / goad .

p.d SMN has issues ? yes but that doesnt mean bards doesnt need some help. U know SE can work on both at same time.

Itemization doesnt help either, S.speed everywhere...