Bard - they broke my job

[lugiaXD]

To be fair, with two or more mages it becomes fine again, but if got into an expert roulette with your BLM friend, and a healer that wasn't DPSing you wouldn't sing for your friend anymore (outside BV) the way they want it. I much prefer a buff being an actual buff, all the time, like all the other dps' buffs.

i don't want to be an ass and say "i would rather they let us play like we used to again instead of giving us some half baked design choices and cast times" especially since this is an idea that i am actually behind.

in terms of raid content you almost never play foes for the NIN so there's no point placing it in the argument, it does help them but compared to BLM it is EXTREMELY minimal.
you also need to remember that smn DoTs benefit greatly from Foes as well as all the new burst potential they have makes them get almost as much of a boost as blm.
however a pretty simple fix would be to allow only Foes through the WM support lockout. (foes already gets special treatment by not having the common misconceived damage penalty for playing it so why no allow it to be our only support ability within our kit that doesn't get locked out be that one specifically)
i mean dragoons and mnks get resistance downs within their rotation and if a nin is in party and you have a warrior they will most likely get the warrior to apply the slash resist down.
so why not let us throw the Casters a bone every now and then.

regardless of that, locking us out of support completely is the point. half the reason we don't get treated like real dps is because of our support hybrid bullshit, with this the risk is that you lose support for the party but you also need to know when you're better off letting the others have some help.
every raid team has their set ups, there's no one style of raid team that we MUST adhere to to clear. not to mention most times foes is played is only when BV is up except for on certain fights because you might need to save your MP for some emergency support.

while i know that most just play to 50% and then leave the rest if you're in an extended fight both brds and the melee become TP starved eventually so you'll need a lot of your MP to live till the next invig.
not sure if others notice but that 50% MP mark is really only good for MB when it comes to AP you want something closer to 80%+ otherwise you barely get any TP out of the song.

i will say i like your argument but i personally find that most of the time foes gets played during battle voice only so that we can save mp for other things. regardless the actual bonus you gain from foes for the casters was always pretty small, most just used it cause it was the only song we could play without a damage penalty which idm having FR be exempt from the suggested change we're discussing but I do really wanna point out that if SE really cared about our kit at all they wouldn't have let wide volley become useless.