Quote Originally Posted by Shunye View Post
i think it's still too early to make any assumptions about how bards will play until the new bard goes up on the beta. Everything is still up in the air and no one really has any clue how the class will play. (people making assumptions on the video is pointless since all the video serves is to show the new song bar and weapon animations. they give zero context for the song duration / cooldown / abilities.
Oh I totally agree!
My claim was just an educated guess according to what we know and saw.


The poster hoped for a more simple rotation and I made 3 claims

1- Bard being one of the easiest, the odds it get simpler with the addition of new skills are slim.
Usually new skills makes everything more complicated. (Of course, "more" has a wide range, Bard got "slightly" more complicated, BLM got "annoyingly" too complicated)
Sometime it's the opposite, like the addition of the ninja Futon refresher which made mudra management much more simple.

2- Song being reworked, we know that 2 of them will have a ressource management and require a target which, in itself, means that it will require more than simply pressing the skill.
How complicated this new ressource will be to manage remain to be seen. (I'm not expecting too much deepness as it would go against their design of reducing DPS disparsity)

3- The removal of the casting time on most of the Bard skill can, technically, only result in a higher difficulty gap as explained above. If 100% of your skills are instant, there's virutally no reason for you to not dps as long as the boss is in range. Taking A12 for example, having no cast time definitely change the way you apprehend the fight.

And regarding the question about paeon and foe, I simply suggested that with the rework and fusion of many skill and the absence of foe in the video, it could mean the skill is gone. Regarding Paeon, healer loosing their ability to remove debuff, perhaps Bard would receive the same treatement.
I can obviously be wrong on both, these are just suggestion according to the meager info we have.

I didn't make any claim regarding
- How the dps will be
- How the new song mechanic will be
- The new position of Bard in the meta, especially compared to MCH.