Angry Bards

[RussW]

For me, it's not that it's hard to play, it just seem boring to play BRD as of now. All the complaints about it certainly doesn't help.

Which is why I decided on MCH as my support dps

Bard was my first 60, but I eventually made a MCH. I like how its got more OGCDs and reload/quick reload can make it mobile.

[rappa]

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Report me or ignore my words.

BTW, you could read this part of the conversation and follow the discussion. You could learn a lot. I left my "elitist enlightenment" to talk about rotations.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post3399656

[TiaHeart]

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What for? Is making discussions repitive against the rules?

or ignore my words.

I considered that but its hard for various reasons. Mainly me being unhappy and you advocating stuff i blame

BTW, you could read this part of the conversation and follow the discussion. You could learn a lot. I left my "elitist enlightenment" to talk about rotations.

Im sure i at least skipped over most of those posts. They do not help my personal situation much without the ability of me parsing myself. Thats a topic I participate in as well.
I just feel Im supposed to swallow whatever is on the plate, hence the sheep remark. Learning stuff, gathering experience, coming to conclusions is a totally different thing. You can write down a perfect rotation and its cool, as long as i cant judge it comfortably my game will be different. I mean imagine i was followin wm fans and their perfect rotations at the time where wm was attacked by the theorycrafters as well, prebuff. Wouldnt i be darn stupid to coope with things I dont like, to get even more "punished" for doing it?

The point was it seemed the 50 aoe is vital to ARR rotation. Obvious by the numbers and side effects described in the game, to the player. You would want the freeshots generated by it, because brds would run out of tp eventually and the game tells you tp song hurts. They removed those. I removed the 50 skill from my bar, and the 45, spamming the 30 skill only. Thats probably not "the right way to go", but the hilarious part is how i could even possibly start feeling that way, and ignore most high level skills only to "be told" our raid is not at acc cap here, pls use 45 aoe (on single targets at that).

Goin by potency, tp cost, and side effect 50>45>30, while all being used worked fine for my understandin of game complexity. Eating another persons forum posts just to understand how the higher level skills might at times be useful to optimize yourself doesnt. Im comin at it from a way different angle than you do obviously, and thats fine. My problem is how your posts seem to not pick up the specific argument and help people understand where they are wrong. You will likely make points, but they are just to easy to miss in a "l2p" way. You say it adds depth to not multidot for good dps. I feel it doesnt, it removes depth. You say its good for an aoe to be used on single targets, not groups. The logic escapes me, and why I should like the idea. Not the fact that it might be still true. You say it adds depth if there is one skill considered "core mechanic" that has to be used to even gain access to the all the other skills. I dont. I feel there is 0 depth in a game that tells me how A B C B C D... Is the only best way to go. And that the margin for doin any different wont be starting at 1% worse, but instantly 15%+ or whatever the significant number will be

[AkashiXI]

Report me or ignore my words.

BTW, you could read this part of the conversation and follow the discussion. You could learn a lot. I left my "elitist enlightenment" to talk about rotations.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post3399656

Side note: why do you think it's better to use EA over Bloodletter? Mathematically it's proven that two BL procs is more dps over the course activating EA (if BL procs again during your EA cast).

[Felessan]

The point was it seemed the 50 aoe is vital to ARR rotation. Obvious by the numbers and side effects described in the game, to the player. You would want the freeshots generated by it, because brds would run out of tp eventually and the game tells you tp song hurts. They removed those. I removed the 50 skill from my bar, and the 45, spamming the 30 skill only.

Multidotting and spamming rain of death off BL procs (Rain of Death now OffCD AoE that resets together with BL) gives you more dps on average number of targets (3-4) than simply spamming Quick Nock.
Bard now have 3 setups - single-target, low number of enemies AoE and high number of enemies AoE that makes different use of skills.

So now we have 2 usefull skills and 1 very situational instead of 1 that used always and 2 quite situational.

[Lancerz]

I'm an angry Bard! Actually just downloaded and installed FFXI to get ready for the free login week on Friday. http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/van...wcb/index.html I think I've had enough of FFXIV honestly, I only log in to fish or do mining right now. It's like SE is doing the exact opposite of what the players want...

[Felessan]

As their revenue from MMO segment steadily increases - it seems to be opposite of what you think.
It's just not that everyone taste got satisfied.