Retrospective of typical bard plays in HW (WM and other abilities)

[Fernosaur]

Whenever I'm DPSing as healer I'm always sad when a DF Bard doesn't think to put up Foe's . I was once in a run like that, and I asked "could you play Foe's for me, please?~"

And the Bard did play Foe's! ...for that pull only, and never again in that dungeon :'D. I thought it too much effort to keep insisting so I stopped asking, lol.

That said, I have run into some Bards that play Foe's for every pull and then switch to Mage's Ballad in-between pulls for letting the healer restore some MP. Whenever I see any of these two, the BRD gets my instant commendation.

[NovaLevossida]

Whenever I'm DPSing as healer I'm always sad when a DF Bard doesn't think to put up Foe's . I was once in a run like that, and I asked "could you play Foe's for me, please?~"

And the Bard did play Foe's! ...for that pull only, and never again in that dungeon :'D. I thought it too much effort to keep insisting so I stopped asking, lol.

That's not just an FFXIV problem. It's like pulling teeth to get supports / medics to drop ammo / health crates in Battlefield. It's like, dude, I can maintain flares on my scout 24/7 and spot all the enemies in a sizable radius near us if you'd only hit left on the d-pad just one time. But nope, they don't want official "wall hacks" since they don't supply ammo. Then you have the medics that see you with 10 health as you hold the line against an enemy offensive and just run past you, don't drop health packs, and then get killed, contributing nothing to the team effort.

Hitting one button for teamwork = too much for most people. Unless it's affecting them personally, they don't bother. It's all too common in online games.