Why do people hate Bards so much??

[AskaRay]

Are you sure you're not a mind reader? I thought that was a new ability they added.

I wish
SE please replace Warden's Paen with the ability to read minds, thanks

[PotatoWafflez]

I wish
SE please replace Warden's Paen with the ability to read minds, thanks

In the coming patch following bard changes will take place:

Bards can now predict what every boss in the game is going to do after having fought them once!
Bards can also look into the future and see where AoE attacks are going to hit before they do!
Bards will now have tooltips read to them in the voice of Morgan freeman he will also narrate all the parties actions while the bard is under the affect of WM

Please look forward to it.

[AskaRay]

In the coming patch following bard changes will take place:

Bards can now predict what every boss in the game is going to do after having fought them once!
Bards can also look into the future and see where AoE attacks are going to hit before they do!
Bards will now have tooltips read to them in the voice of Morgan freeman he will also narrate all the parties actions while the bard is under the affect of WM

Please look forward to it.

Thank god
10/10 A+ Morgan Freeman will get my sub forever

[UBERHAXED]

Even with the 1 second lead, that's only enough for 1 oGCD ability which can reset its cooldown, along side other oGCD abilties. Fire I animation completes as soon as the fireball hits, or if you used an oGCD like a buff, tranpose or an instant cast thunder. The latter doesn't apply to heavy shot's proc. You will still hard cast a straight shot even if you got the buff from the previous one until you wait one second after the GCD from using heavy shot ends.

Straighter shot does not pop immediately until heavy shot's animation ends, but that happpens after the GCD finishes because the animation does not start until after the 1.5 second cast, nor does using an oGCd to cancel heavy shot's animation work.

You seem to be misunderstanding something. They way the game is now, you will cast fire, followed by blizzard III and will already be in umbral ice by the time fire starter procs. This is nothing like what you have for bard.

[Mhikail]

they do low damage even before HW and will cause the duty running slower.

and most of them don't play songs to support the others.

This is coming from someone who blatantly told us in that old famous Bard topic
"BARDS PLEASE SING" or something of another that you don't sing.
"I choose Bard to DPS, not support."

So you're right, and you're one of them lol.
And this is why Bard's suck even more than they do now.
Bard is like...the WAR/SMN/beginning of MCH of 3.0. What a shame.

[Hayward]

Because Bards' DPS ceiling is the lowest with MCH. If there are two BRDS in my party, one is going to be kicked.

And the next thing that should follow is a GM putting your behind in the penalty box for about 3 days.

[RiceisNice]

You seem to be misunderstanding something. They way the game is now, you will cast fire, followed by blizzard III and will already be in umbral ice by the time fire starter procs. This is nothing like what you have for bard.

And I can cast heavy shot, cast heavy shot again, and get the straight shot proc in the middle of my second heavy shot animation, even if I use an oGCd to cancel the first heavy shot's animation. The second heavy shot is interchangable with straight shot since you need to keep it's buff up, and the proc can still occur during that, except it's not a free shot so that's TP wasted.

[Catwho]

It's because a good bard, even if they're putting out everything they have, is still at the mercy of RNGesus for the crits to sustain high DPS. Bard owns the field if you have group AOE pulls, but even with WM has trouble getting sustained single target DPS that is comparable to the other DPS classes. I've been keeping a close eye on my damage numbers and it's really disheartening that an ilvl 176 bard, even putting everything she has into her rotation, still comes out behind the WAR on the parse in a depressing 5th place in an 8-man fight.

[Evangela]

And the next thing that should follow is a GM putting your behind in the penalty box for about 3 days.

they won't.

[Greven]

By they way, never heard someone hate bards, at max not wanting more than one in the same party.

What they hate are bad players, bad players can be bards too.