Quote Originally Posted by Aiselia View Post
No, I'm pretty sure that how punctuation works is rather objective.
That sounds subjective to me, ironically. I'm literally telling you what I meant yet you are seeing it the way you want to. Can't help you there.

Because we're talking about non-raids. Y'know, things like soloing or roulette dungeons. Things where you won't always have a caster.

I mean, I could have said "A song that increases magic damage when you may not even have a caster because you don't control roulette groups".
Healers do magical damage, healers always count. Also, what makes you think a drg/nin/monk will be using any of their utility correctly? They are not really required or expected to in df parties. As for pre-mades then taking a caster is always a choice. The thing about low level or easy content is, the teamplay is very poor, it's basically everyone for themselves .


For someone who griped about me missing context, you certainly seem to have forgotten that. We're talking about non-raids, remember? Where either you don't control the makeup of your group (roulette) or things like TP/MP songs are not needed because fights don't last long enough.
Maybe you are the one constantly talking or being limited about dungeons, however I'm not so don't think that please. Also, I do understand the implications of what could happen if jobs were balanced around dungeon content not raid, because lol I do raid.
Would I favour a DRG who does more damage and can increase damage of the entire party plus the healing of the healer (Extra crit chance on a SCH makes for lovely Adloq shields that let me pop into Cleric stance for a while longer) over a BRD who can refill TP that won't need refilling, refill MP that won't need refilling, or potentially buff caster damage if we have a caster or they happen to play it during a time the healer has a chance to attack?
Or buff the healer's damage with foes while they are on cleric? didn't think you'd miss that one. Believe me when I say, a healer would prefer that lovely foes to dps over a crit adlo.

"but why would anyone jump off a cliff to begin with?"
You are not going to jump off a cliff unless someone pushes you off by telling you not to bring a bard along for difficult content.

What am I expecting? Nothing.

What am I hoping for? Their play style back, and hopefully equalized weapon damage, even if it means moving that loss of weapon damage to the penalty for playing songs.
Not gonna happen, gotta work on them hopes.

Actually, they'd most likely not stack, like how Dancing Edge and Storm's Eye don't.
So you want to take one of drg's utilities and pass it to a bard so then drg won't be as desirable for utility purposes. For that to be viable drg must remain top melee dps over monk and ninja. Which means that it won't be balanced, also means that it is not fair for other melee jobs. A piercing buff though shouldn't be applicable during minuet because then with minuet that's a 40% damage buff, that's too much in one go without even off GCDs. This won't be dynamic for a priority system job like bard that's all over the place, this will actually increase the skillcap even more. I would suggest you forget about the piercing damage buff altogether because it doesn't make sense with the current bard gameplay.