Buff Bards or Riot

[Mirakell]

Post #112 really does sum up how most of us are feeling.

We are NOT wanting to be top dps, we never were - but we had reasons before as to why our dps was so low, we had more to offer... now the game has evolved while bard has not.

[Minfillia]

Patch is comming : THANK YOU YOSHI-P

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen..._bards_minuet/

[Kayote]

Patch is comming : THANK YOU YOSHI-P

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen..._bards_minuet/

make it easier to switch between stances,

Great ... stance dancing .... joy. Seriously, just let us chain cast, bring back auto-attack (or at least half it rather than remove) and we should be fine. If not, go from there!

/sigh I cant wait for another Archery class already (fat chance considering MCH just came out). We look like clowns half the time and punished for filling a role that doesnt even exist (which other classes have their own flavors of). At this point ill even take a pet class like Ranger just to get away from this mess ... and I hate pets!

[Scyris]

lol really dont know why people are Q.Qing nothin wrong to the changes with bard imo.. every1 expects to be legolas these days?? run all around the place n still shoot some1 between the eyes?? the changes to bard now is actually is more like an archer than what it was b4

They are complaing because, the skill makes bards have to use a entirely diffrent playstyle, nevermind the fact the stance even with all the skills at 60, is barely is better than just not using it at all, insted all it does is turn us into a gimped to hell black mage wannabe. Now I will admit if you could autoattack with Wanderers on, I'd let the other stuff slide, but as it is the dps loss is far to big atm with the skill in its current state. All other dps get nice useful stuff, why was bard shafted so damned hard on the 52-60 skills? Its made me wanna just quit the game entirely because other than a pld, I got nothing else close to do the new content.

[Yoruichi4478]

I have to say that when I heard we would be charging our attacks I envisioned the way archers in TERA charge up their attacks to make them more powerful by keeping the button pressed down til either it hits its max potency or you decide you don't need that much power in the shot, not being forced into a caster role. I have to say that TERA's archer is far superior now. When they buffed archer and a few other classes in that game while I played, they BUFFED them, they didn't say well you get this buff but you have to be in this role now. They made the job more viable by making them hit harder which pleased the player base 100%. This is what SE should do. Not piss us off by doing what they have done. The devs for TERA never nerfed to buff or gave restrictions, dps were free to play the style they liked and still do great dps numbers.

[Yoruichi4478]

lol really dont know why people are Q.Qing nothin wrong to the changes with bard imo.. every1 expects to be legolas these days?? run all around the place n still shoot some1 between the eyes?? the changes to bard now is actually is more like an archer than what it was b4

Not really. Archers are always mobile and OP in their own right.

[Yoruichi4478]

yet 95% of people complainin about how bard is destroyed now are complaining about not being able to attack like used to while moving lolz

just to use an example some1 in the FC im in ranted and whined for good hour yesterday about how bard is utterly destroyed n not worth playing cause cant attack while moving .. wanna know the funny side of it?? his/her bard was level 51 so how would he/she know??

Perhaps they saw lvl 60 bards in action and saw that would be them soon enough?

[Yoruichi4478]

WM isnt even my favourite new bard skill.. sidewinder for the win lol that can pull off massive numbers biggest crit ive done was 3200 lol

Just wait til u see 5500+ on a sidewinder crit.

[Yoruichi4478]

The simple fact that parties were stacking bards to rotate their songs back in 2.0 shows that the nerfs to BRD were very much needed. Other jobs have utility, yes, but none as incredibly potent as BRD and MCH have. You can argue about it as much as you like but it doesn't change the facts; we've not seen parties stacking other jobs for their utility as we saw with BRDs.

Actually if you want to talk job stacking, we stacked lancers in 1.0 for Ifrit when it first came out and you had to have Sentinel to survive. Then archer for Moogle, then blm for Garuda. In fact, for most things til the end of 1.0, the job stacked was blm. 2 brds isn't stacking imo. Making all the dps 1 job type is.

[Cakekizy]

I wonder how many ppl didn't even bother doing the new bard job quests.