Bard - they broke my job

[agroyboy]

I love brd now. Dps easy 800 to 900 np. But each to thier own. People will cry about anything.

[FateAudax]

I love brd now. Dps easy 800 to 900 np. But each to thier own. People will cry about anything.

Would love to see a screenshot of your parser for educational purpose sincerely, without sarcasm.

[agroyboy]

Would love to see a screenshot of your parser for educational purpose sincerely, without sarcasm.

I mean you guys aren't hitting for 5k plus with barrage and empy. And I've crit up to 3.8k with sw.

[awesomeuno]

I mean you guys aren't hitting for 5k plus with barrage and empy. And I've crit up to 3.8k with sw.

Burst =/= DPS

[Misery1337]

Okay so imagine this all you BLMs out there. Imagine if all your cast times from every skill were removed, you could freely move or even jump around the entire arena while casting ANY spell at your disposal instantly. Would you be happy? Yes? I thought so, now imagine all that happiness...are you imagining it now? Good! Imagine the same level of anger and frustration and that is what us Bards are feeling at the moment.

[AskaRay]

Okay so imagine this all you BLMs out there. Imagine if all your cast times from every skill were removed, you could freely move or even jump around the entire arena while casting ANY spell at your disposal instantly. Would you be happy? Yes? I thought so, now imagine all that happiness...are you imagining it now? Good! Imagine the same level of anger and frustration and that is what us Bards are feeling at the moment.

Don't assume all bards hate it........

[Misery1337]

All Bards who don't hate it are pretty bad at the job then. No offense.

[FateAudax]

Don't assume all bards hate it........

Well, not all bards likes it either. Not a single person's opinion can represent the masses but you can't deny that there are players who plays Bard due to the mobility and lack of cast time.

[FireHands]

Wanderers minuet increases damage by 20% and disables auto attacks... Guys... our auto attacks are around 20% of our damage. And to further make it even worst, we can only use 1 off global per GCD which means in an overall fight we're doing even less dps with Minuet.

You can never efficiently use all off gcds under Minuet... fitting blunt arrow/repelling shot/ buffs/ bloodletter/flaming arrow/sidewinder/empyreal arrow just leaves us with not using stuff right away which is a further dps loss.

Wanderers Minuet is only useful for start burst to buff empyreal arrow damage, after that... it's useless.

Make wanderers minuet a full support song and give us empyreal arrow without the need to have minuet up. Lets be honest... Bard was never designed to cast with how many off globals it's built on.

[Boss_Koivula]

After start burst you just reapply buffed dots and ignore WM for the rest of the fight. Thats pretty much it until they tweak it somehow. I was supposed to roll as a bard for our static in the expansion, but WM being completely useless I dont know what to do anymore. Geared DRG can pull off 1200parses, and it feels like we are completely left behind.