We should have a "Lance mage", "Ninja Sword mage", "Fist mage"

[pandabearcat]

Both lancers and ninjas had pretty much zero positionals, and were given positionals.

They complained but lived with it, but I guess bards are special snowflakes.

The choice between minuet and not minuet is simple. You use the one that does more dps for your situation.

Its laughable when people say "but what about the chance of wasting a bloodletter proc" oh well. It's still a dps gain to use minuet even with casted BL.

The idea here is the discrepancy between "perfect dps given the tools you have" vs "what I want perfect dps to be". Its like in FF9 where you cannot get "the highest" stats in every stat. In which case perfection is no longer "highest stats in every stat" but "highest you can do with what you're given".

I imagine the bards complaining to be the same kinds of people that want someone to tell them what the "best dps" is.

[Aiselia]

Both lancers and ninjas had pretty much zero positionals, and were given positionals.

And that didn't completely change how the class worked and still flowed in with how they already played, so it's irrelevant.

But thanks for your, albeit useless, contribution.

[Malz]

And that didn't completely change how the class worked and still flowed in with how they already played, so it's irrelevant.

But thanks for your, albeit useless, contribution.

Empyreal Arrow and Iron Jaws are also locked behind Minuet.

No Minuet, none of those abilities.