Dear All Bards,

[SuperZay]

Comparing songs to Lethargy or Apoc is a really weak comparison. The whole point of being a Bard is singing songs. If someone doesn't want to sing songs then they shouldn't be a Bard. You want to just Pew Pew all day and have a lot less responsibility than be a BLM or something. I say that being a BLM main. I can only influence the battle so much with my "support" abilities but for the most part the way I help the raid is me keeping up DPS and mitigating damage coming at me. Bards on the other hand influence the raid by singing songs that benefit the party, not just themselves.

It's not about not wanting to sing. It's about songs being very circumstantial. And about demanding bad players who can only scream 'MP! MP!'/'TP! TP!' without having any idea about Shroud or being too lazy to level lancer for Invigorate.

[Clarkamite]

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Songs are circumstantial and you shouldn't have to rely on the bard to refill your mana but that is their whole purpose: to provide a respectable DPS while having a lot of utility that benefits the party in more than just them hitting something hard. I can understand not singing Paeon to a certain extent when you don't know a DPS is low on TP but refusing to sing it because you just don't want to defeats the purpose of being a Bard. I can think of plenty of times when the melee DPS in my group have NEEDED a Paeon through no fault of their own. Not to mention is there a downside to singing Foes and increasing your casters DPS in fights? I wish my Bard would sing it in more appropriate places to be honest rather than just singing it randomly and without warning.

I get what you're saying though. We don't bring a Bard so he can make up for DPS not having Invigorate or Healers not knowing what it means to not over heal, we bring him so that he sings his songs in appropriate situations to help ease the clearing of content. It's not necessary for him to. But then again, it's not necessary for me to pull 500+ DPS either, but I still do it.