Does movement give you any stat improvement in battle?

[HyoMinPark]

Bards don't have any positional but there is a "sweet spot" distance wise where you do more damage. I believe it's between 10 and 15 yalms. Practice with a striking dummy to get a feel for it but you will do slightly more damage than you would if you were closer/ farther than that.

Bard does not have a distance mechanic like this. Just want to point that out. You will do the same amount of damage at a distance of 5 yalms that you would at 10 or 15. You just want to be in range of all party members for them to get the passive Crit Up buffs from songs, in range for AOE heals/cards, and in range so that Foe's affects the target (fairly simple because Foe's is 25 yalms).

[CharIie]

Bards don't have any positional but there is a "sweet spot" distance wise where you do more damage. I believe it's between 10 and 15 yalms. Practice with a striking dummy to get a feel for it but you will do slightly more damage than you would if you were closer/ farther than that.

Fantastic! Thanks!

[Mysterysword]

Bard does not have a distance mechanic like this.

That feeling when you see people trying to correct misinformation and being ignored. :|

Edit: And by that, I mean HyoMin is completely right. If there is even a distance buff like this on BRD, I have never noticed it in 2 years of on-and-off BRDing. I have never heard anyone else ever mention it or bring it up, and you can bet your ass that if something like this even existed, the raiders would've figured it out 2 seconds after it was first implemented.

TL;DR: Stop spouting lies when someone is asking for help.

To answer the OP's original question: There is no such thing as the mechanic you described in your original post. This game's battle system is relatively simple, when it comes down to it.

[Lilseph]

Fantastic! Thanks!

They don't! Please read what Hyomin said! D: Only melee DPS (not tanks) have positionals.

[Vaer]

Bards don't have any positional but there is a "sweet spot" distance wise where you do more damage. I believe it's between 10 and 15 yalms. Practice with a striking dummy to get a feel for it but you will do slightly more damage than you would if you were closer/ farther than that.

In XI maybe. At one point during XIV PvP this was true (it got removed) but never in PvE.

[Shurrikhan]

Bards don't have any positional but there is a "sweet spot" distance wise where you do more damage. I believe it's between 10 and 15 yalms. Practice with a striking dummy to get a feel for it but you will do slightly more damage than you would if you were closer/ farther than that.

This is misinformation.

The only instance of this existing was strictly for PvP, and it has since been removed.

[Canadane]

The distance based damage was present in 1.0.
It was removed at some point in the 1.x updates. Hasn't ever returned.