Quote Originally Posted by Elazu View Post
Also, you have a Skill alled 'Goad'. It recovers one party member's TP.
Sure . . . IF someone specifically asks me to use it.

See, Bards have an advantage - we can see mana pools in the party window, so as a Bard I can activate mana song if I feel it is needed. And, yes, I will be the one to judge that so don;t go panicking and yelling for mana song when your mana pool is 3/4 full - I will ignore you. Really, with the BLM's ability to restore mana as part of their rotation and SMN/SCH is literally IMPOSSIBLE to make a dent in mana, the only ones I have to watch out for are tanks and WHM, so I'll toss it on if one of them is down to 25% mana. I main as a SCH, and I actually facepalm and chuckle when we do not have a WHM and the tanks are FM and a Bard starts popping off mana song (nothing like wasting 25% DPS to try and look cool playing a tune, eh?)

However, SE apparently does not consider Bard TP song to be important or Goad, apparently, or they'd slap in a UI to monitor the party's TP. So o9nly the party can determine how important it is. Therefore, when on NIN, if you do not ask me for Goad directly, I won't even use it. If no one asks then the PROPER and CORRECT assumption is that you are doing fine and actually know how to manage your TP (managing TP is like managing mana - it CAN be done, but no one bothers to try because they like to use Bards and NINs like crutches).