3 BLMs, 1 BRD and no Foe's = Sadness

[pushin_tin]

This works both ways.

1 BLM, 1 SCH, Foes on every pull, BV enhanced on bosses. No commendation. As much as forumgoers complain about BRDs not singing Foes, it wouldn't surprise me if 99% of the casters I see in DF don't even know what Foes is.

[SaitoHikari]

This works both ways.

1 BLM, 1 SCH, Foes on every pull, BV enhanced on bosses. No commendation. As much as forumgoers complain about BRDs not singing Foes, it wouldn't surprise me if 99% of the casters I see in DF don't even know what Foes is.

It does go both ways. Noticed a DPSing Scholar in a leveling roulette run, so I used Foe. Got told by the tank to turn it off because it doesn't benefit him or the other DPS.

Generally bards not singing AT ALL seems to be the norm though.

[Aomine1992]

I'm one of those healers that likes to dps the hell out of instances to save us all some time on these repetitive runs. Every time I get a Bard that doesn't use Foe's (which is pretty often), I die a little inside. And we shouldn't have to ask for it either. It's your job. You see a caster in your party, you use Foe's... which is clearly beyond most of their comprehension and ability.

Granted if it's just a WHM or AST foes should be asked for...half the time SCHs don't even dps so why waste mp when it's not making any difference...and I say that cause I've played foes for the healers before and they are dps'n like 30% of the time or not at all

[AskaRay]

Granted if it's just a WHM or AST foes should be asked for...half the time SCHs don't even dps so why waste mp when it's not making any difference...and I say that cause I've played foes for the healers before and they are dps'n like 30% of the time or not at all

I usually wait to see the first couple pulls if they're doing DPS or not.

Besides what are you saving your MP for? Paeon??? Pft.

[Fynlar]

Went into a Duty Roulette Trial and got Ramuh. Party consisted of 3 black mages and 1 bard. Now, I main bard so when I see three black mages in my group, my first thought goes to putting up Foe's. So, this was my expectation with this bard.

This was your first mistake.

[FoxyAreku]

Had a bard start the fight with Army's Paeon once.

WHY?

[RyuSaarva]

Had a bard start the fight with Army's Paeon once.

WHY?

I do that sometimes in dungeons when tank pulls half of the enemies in there, it's fun to spam aoes.

[AskaRay]

Had a bard start the fight with Army's Paeon once.

WHY?

'I had to BEG a bard not to do this once. I was leveling MCH, I begged them not to start with Paeon, we had wiped like five times already.
Her excuse?
"My DPS is good enough already." Implying...mine isn't? huh? Doesn't change the fact that you SHOULDN'T START THE FIGHT WITH IT ON.

I do that sometimes in dungeons when tank pulls half of the enemies in there, it's fun to spam aoes.

DON'T DON'T DON'T start the pull with it on.
Literally take the three seconds out of your AOE spam after you're about 400TP left AFTER you used Invigorate.
Even better just switch to dots > IJ > Rain of Death, assuming there's like 4 or less left.

[Skivvy]

This works both ways.

1 BLM, 1 SCH, Foes on every pull, BV enhanced on bosses. No commendation.

I'm not quite understanding where commendations come into play here. "I'm not going to get commendations, so why should I use Foe?" is horrible reasoning if that's the implication. :X For what it's worth, I will always commend the bard who uses their songs.

People looking for steady commendations should stick to healers and tanks.