Quote Originally Posted by nexas506 View Post
And "able to sing with other songs" is ridiculous. Have you ever tried to sing 2 different songs at the same time? Go on. Try it now... i but it didn't work out very well.
Oh, I dunno. Ever heard of a medley? In music, it's a composition comprising of multiple songs rolled into one. Medley also makes for a nice ability name.

To be honest, I don't like most of the songs they've given us. Ballad is great, but the Paeon rarely gets used because there are so many better ways to recover TP now. There's no attack, defense or speed buffs either. No songs to rejuvenate HP or enhance your stats. In FFXI, the first songs you ever get are a defense buff and an attack buff! They decided to focus squarely on the DPS aspect of FFXIV's Bard instead of support, which begs the question why they didn't just name the class 'Ranger' and remove the songs entirely. Let's be honest, at this stage most jobs can manage their MP fine enough without a bard, and most bards don't like to use it anyway because of the DPS drop.

Wanderer's Minuet is just another example of SE ignoring the players. No one asked for it, no one wanted it, but we got it anyway. A single skill to upset the status quo and make your 50+ levels feel wasted since it does nothing to prepare you for your final levels. The cast time is just long enough to be annoying, and not long enough to justify giving us a stronger attack boost. Long enough that weaving in bloodletter results in forced pauses. A small pause no doubt, but those little moments add up considerably over time.

I've noticed a considerable lull in the number of level 60 bards when running dungeons and raid content. They're still out there, and still playing, but certainly not in the numbers that they were before Heavensward was released. I would be very interested to see a census about how often classes are actually used, rather than simply how high people have levelled them up.