Advice for Bard DPS~

[RiceisNice]

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If you're mishandling bluefires, that can definitely lead to your dps taking a hit.

You only need to keep up near the end of redfire's cast time. You can also apply your DoTs to phoenix and the bennies for the first and third redfires before you pick it up.

[PetiteMalFleur]

OP, is there a reason you don't use the augmented ironworks belt? It is your bis. I think it would be a dps gain over the dreadwyrm belt even un-augmented with how much accuracy you have. Use black truffle risotto for food. The accuracy on apkallu makes it a total waste.

Do you try to make sure your dots get buffed with your dps cooldowns? Are you handling bluefire?

[ChriZirhC]

dont use foe's... it drops your damage by 50% so you wont be able to deal 1k dps(but not per second). lolol

[valho]

Sorry for hijacking your topic, but what is the group dps supposed to be so we can push to third phase with four bennus? Maybe I can finally convince my static to make the SCH do bluefires instead of me.

Can't remember what's the raid dps needed but it's doable even with Bard on bluefires, you just need to push to 51.9% before the 5th bennu comes out either using LB or without using LB, my group does it without LB, on my group first clear this was when Phoenix is casting the redfire before the 5th bennu comes out. My group have both melees always on Phoenix with our Bard and BLM on bennus.

1 thing you must becareful when pushing 4 bennus is that the person doing blue/red fire did not that the bluefire at phase change, they will have gimp dps for a short duration of time until it wears off, happen to our Bard a few times cause she never pay attention to the HP % and sometimes we forgot to call out lol

[Ooshima]

1 thing you must becareful when pushing 4 bennus is that the person doing blue/red fire did not that the bluefire at phase change, they will have gimp dps for a short duration of time until it wears off, happen to our Bard a few times cause she never pay attention to the HP % and sometimes we forgot to call out lol

I don't think I'd call it short man. Bluefire debuff is 60 whooping seconds, if you happen to accidentally catch it at 52-53% and it phases, your BRD is pretty much fucked.

[valho]

I don't think I'd call it short man. Bluefire debuff is 60 whooping seconds, if you happen to accidentally catch it at 52-53% and it phases, your BRD is pretty much fucked.

oh it was 60s no wonder she was screaming and decided to sing ballad instead whenever she caught it lol

[EdgeFayth]

Bluefire is 90% dps reduction for 60s. So yes, it sucks...

[Mahes]

What I end up doing for my group that helps keep my dps up is, since I know where my healers will need ballad or my dps will need paeon (very seldom) I have worked in those songs only during phase changes minus emergencies what you could alway look at doing to is if you know your healers will need ballad going into p3 you could play a short ballad and swap to foes. Unless I misinterpreted what you typed you have 2 bards in your party as well if thats the case you could have whichever bard isn't playing foes BV a short ballad and as soon as BV falls turn it off ballad and throw it back up during the transition into p4. Then after that if possible drop ballad once the combat kicks up again.