Why do people hate Bards so much??

[Slick]

Please, Charge... Charge time. Is unaffected by Silence. I hate the 'Cast Bar' graphic. It's bloody inaccurate. The charge time does not even match up to the Cast Times on GCD spells as either. They really should do more to differentiate the two visually.

And yes, there's a highly vocal minority on these boards and a bunch of people who are sick of the discussion. Slick, I'm sorry to inform you but since you were on last the toxicity of the boards has jumped up about threefold. It's probably not going to get better as things progress, but it will at least cool off once the 'new' on the Expansion wears off and those who cannot adapt to Heavensward leave out.

I remember coming on the board here last Summer and asking a question. I could not believe how NICE the responses were. It literally made me want to keep playing the game because the community, at least on this board, was so damn friendly.

[Mhikail]

I hate when they don't sing.
People claim they aren't "bards" anymore.
but totally forgot that they are support DPS and don't support.
And now even with WM givin' a booster in DPS, they don't wanna use that.
A lot of bards don't wanna do anything but whine.
-Gets flame suit, sword and shield ready-

[RiceisNice]

They should just change the cast times to animation locks. Then they will actually have something to complain about. Ever use jump and get hit by an AOE twice?

It's actually both. Animation locks combined with cast times makes for a very clumsy gameplay if the animations don't actually accommodate the cast times.

[PotatoWafflez]

What bards want to be like : https://youtu.be/f3DMh46VhEA
What bards are actually like: https://youtu.be/o1RI53zYKSI

[Assirra]

I hate when they don't sing.
People claim they aren't "bards" anymore.
but totally forgot that they are support DPS and don't support.
And now even with WM givin' a booster in DPS, they don't wanna use that.
A lot of bards don't wanna do anything but whine.
-Gets flame suit, sword and shield ready-

This honestly all comes down to the fact that SE somehow got the idea of making the ranger, universally in mmo's the most played spec ever giving support abilities and changing it into bard.
Now that SE is going further in the support role people are flipping tables because it's getting further and further form the ranger they wanted to be in the first place.
They should have really used heavensward as a chance to split up archer jobs into bard with support role and less damage that it is now and ranger with more focus on ranged damage and a standard generic ranger/hunter.

[RyuDragnier]

They should have really used heavensward as a chance to split up archer jobs into bard with support role and less damage that it is now and ranger with more focus on ranged damage and a standard generic ranger/hunter.

Yoshi-P stated that he didn't like how the SMN/SCH split worked out, so it'll never happen, sorry.

[Assirra]

Yoshi-P stated that he didn't like how the SMN/SCH split worked out, so it'll never happen, sorry.

Well those are 2 different things. It doesn't work because 1 is a healer and the other is a dps.
Bard to ranger would essentially just be a switch of power from support abilities to straight up raw ranged damage.
If they don't do anything, this will go on forever since i like i said before, rangers are universally the most played class in mmo's ever.

[myahele]

Prior to 3.0, people didn't like the bards due to them not playing songs due to "losing dps"

Now people might hate bards due to them not using WM to boost their dps due to "losing movement"

[AskaRay]

Actually it's funny
I main bard, and so does my friend, and we both hate other bards... though I asked my friend who mains MNK and she says she hates other monks so maybe it's just that you're over critical of your own job.

/shrug

[Taeos]

because they play with bad bards