RIP Bard

[Magnus]

Either they're wrong or we can't auto attack while running. No auto attacks would make Barrage a useless ability, in the literal sense.

Edit: Hm, if he says that then that worries me. Barrage is best used with blood for Blood and Hawk's eye, so "Putting all your abilities on and going nuts" is definitely out of the question.

If you look again at the new job abilities video, you'll notice that the BRD uses Barrage while still under the effects of the new song stance. I'm going to take a guess and say that Barrage can be consumed to buff the new attack skill that she used afterwards.

[Lemuria]

If you move... AT ALL... the effect disappears. This seems like a seriously situational skill at best. The bonus damage would have to be very significant for me to give up my mobility, auto-attacks and attack speed just to use a handful of skills with long charge times.

I'll reserve judgement until I've had a play with it, but I'm not thrilled by the immediate prospects yet.

[Lillia]

I'm actually pretty sure that the act of moving pops off the song. This means that you have to recast it every time you want to dodge out of the way of something.

Edit: nvm, you're right. Bayo just put that up in the text trans. :O

[The_Last_Dragoon]

Edit: nvm, you're right. Bayo just put that up in the text trans. :O

What's really funny is that if you actually do have another song on when you have this stance up then you're really doing it wrong...

[Lillia]

What's really funny is that if you actually do have another song on when you have this stance up then you're really doing it wrong...

Yep but you can technically still use the song for when you're just standing at a bosses butt and buffing. So I accept this change. .-.

[Kikoten]

Weren't people worried about BRD DPS before?

Look! DPS! Sure, you can't move while you do it, but that's game balance for you.

This makes me want to level a BRD all that much more. I like the thought of hunkering down like a tank and blasting away the enemy.

EDIT: By "tank" I mean the one that demolishes, not the one carrying a sword and board or mama's big axe.

[Seifa]

If you move... AT ALL... the effect disappears. This seems like a seriously situational skill at best. The bonus damage would have to be very significant for me to give up my mobility, auto-attacks and attack speed just to use a handful of skills with long charge times.

I'll reserve judgement until I've had a play with it, but I'm not thrilled by the immediate prospects yet.

Wow, i didn't understand that Minuet disappears if you move, i understood that you lose the cast time of the spell, obviously. This is just a clunky mechanic for the sake of being clunky. The prospect of playing a physical BLM isn't appealing at all.......

[The_Last_Dragoon]

If you look again at the new job abilities video, you'll notice that the BRD uses Barrage while still under the effects of the new song stance. I'm going to take a guess and say that Barrage can be consumed to buff the new attack skill that she used afterwards.

That is extremely weird, but if Barrage actually does something akin to modifying all of your skills while under the new song so that each attack hits 3 times then yeah, the song will be broken as hell.

[Kiroh]

It was directly stated.

RIP Barrage.

[Blueyes]

I'm actually kind of surprised they added this type of mechanic to Bard. When they talked about Machinist having an optional stationary stance that would let them turret like a Black Mage I assumed that would be a key mechanic that would make the job play differently, but now they both more or less have the same capability with Bard seemingly being less intuitive about it.