Bard - they broke my job

[yamochan]

Sidewinder is best used for burst moment no ?

yes use itz in burst phase then on cd but ofc only with both buffs up

[willibra]

im enjoying it , now refreshing dots is 1 skill 60 tp , thats awesome , E. arrow hits hard , and sidewinder hits even harder , but yeah having to move hurts now , but thats the price we pay for being able to dps harder....SE needs to boost Heavy shot a bit and now Straight shot proc are rare ....since we dont spam heavy shot like mad.... so we see less procs....and ugh casting heavy shot > casting straight shot > straight proc!!!! -_-

I don't remember the number off the top of my head, but I have a decently high crit rate. I mixed and matched my right side between Asuran and Gordian to keep my accuracy up for Alexander Savage runs. I get the Straighter Shot a ton, and I've actually gotten a BL double-tap between Heavy Shots. The rotation is a bit more difficult as you can only really reasonably do 1 oGCD between skills now, but I've found pairing those with the buffs (which have much shorter animations) to be usable.

[Roshidon1]

The only thing I don't like about the current bard is what someone stated earlier. It seems you have a million buffs/bloodletter popping at the same time and you have to choose the lesser of two evils; Basically pick the best option at the time, which can be confusing because chances are they are all pretty good options. Example: You lose some dps if you skip bloodletter to say, pop another damage cooldown to renew your dots at a higher damage potential, and while this is happening another bloodletter procs. So it's almost like they are dangling candy in front of us, only to snatch it away.

On a side note, Dervy has said he is working on the stat weights: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...t_weights_yet/

[kumo21]

So, currently i184 BRD and parsing anywhere from 700-900, sometimes 1k ish depending on the fight, in A1-A4 PUGs. Usually I am among the top dps, oddly, especially over other BRDS (100-200+ more dps). However, I do notice when there's a good NIN MNK DRG SMN etc. their dps can be also be 200 dps+ more than mine. SO I was wondering, since BRD's have the unique ability to play songs, like Foe Requiem to boost mage DMG that drains MP (can't be used with other songs), but we don't always use it since sometimes there isn't a SMN or BLM in the group. Well, why not have a song that boosts our own damage further that drains MP? Maybe either another 5-10% increase DMG, increase in crit rate or skill speed (to boost our DoTs). Otherwise, we kinda sit at full MP. I think this may boost our dmg to be more competitive, especially on single target fights.Thoughts?

[StrejdaTom]

1257 on Savage Faust, around 950 on savage oppressor (at 4% enrage so I think it was 8:30?).
Not my parses, static member told me.

I am usually around 100 dps behind SMN and 50 DPS behind BLM (on oppressor, the DPS difference is higher on Faust), on par or a bit better than NIN. HQ pipira pira and NQ mega-pots of DEX. iLvL 188

Even when I was against WM and I still hate it, I must admit that from my experience BRD's DPS seems to be fine. For the utility we have I think the DPS difference is acceptable sacrifice. But it is funny that SMN outdpses BLM while SMN has higher mobility than BRD.

So, currently i184 BRD and parsing anywhere from 700-900, sometimes 1k ish depending on the fight, in A1-A4 PUGs. Usually I am among the top dps, oddly, especially over other BRDS (100-200+ more dps). However, I do notice when there's a good NIN MNK DRG SMN etc. their dps can be also be 200 dps+ more than mine. SO I was wondering, since BRD's have the unique ability to play songs, like Foe Requiem to boost mage DMG that drains MP (can't be used with other songs), but we don't always use it since sometimes there isn't a SMN or BLM in the group. Well, why not have a song that boosts our own damage further that drains MP? Maybe either another 5-10% increase DMG, increase in crit rate or skill speed (to boost our DoTs). Otherwise, we kinda sit at full MP. I think this may boost our dmg to be more competitive, especially on single target fights.Thoughts?

Honestly I thought that we would get something like this in HW for party. It is funny that we got some useless WP instead..

[kumo21]

1257 on Savage Faust, around 950 on savage oppressor (at 4% enrage so I think it was 8:30?).
Not my parses, static member told me.

I am usually around 100 dps behind SMN and 50 DPS behind BLM (on oppressor, the DPS difference is higher on Faust), on par or a bit better than NIN. HQ pipira pira and NQ mega-pots of DEX. iLvL 188

Even when I was against WM and I still hate it, I must admit that from my experience BRD's DPS seems to be fine. For the utility we have I think the DPS difference is acceptable sacrifice. But it is funny that SMN outdpses BLM while SMN has higher mobility than BRD.



Honestly I thought that we would get something like this in HW for party. It is funny that we got some useless WP instead..

Or maybe even a song that reduces piercing resistance?

[Roshidon1]

Or maybe even a song that reduces piercing resistance?

That is a good idea, and I've felt for a while that Bards need some type of physical damage increase song. There are alot of instances where you never see a caster and Mages Ballad is never needed, so all of our songs are pretty much useless then. Although a physical damage increase would be pretty OP since it will effect tanks and all of the dps if they are all physical.

[Noira]

Well don't hold your breath on the physical damage increase as MCH has that with hypercharge and rook turret.

They won't give you a piercing buff song due to DRG providing that.

What I would like is defense increase song even if it means being on a 90 mins or so cooldown.

[Delsai]

I just unlocked it and I hate it with passion right now. It's so tacky and the sound it makes sounds like two stray cats humping. Not happy that it was a complete turn around of a class I enjoyed for so long. Also, it sucks weaving in cooldowns that I was use to doing in between shots.

Leveling White Mage until I get bored then just moving on to something else I'm afraid. Bard will never be the same because SE is stubborn as hell.

[Noira]

How do you know what two stray cats humping sounds like ?

Yeah that sound is just no <.< Sounds like I'm cooking bacon.