Bard gearing question

[Judas_Ramirez]

That's very unfortunate. It would literally take one person (who understands bard) 5 minutes to check the substats to make sure gear/weapon upgrades are tied to ilevels. SE certainly has more than enough resources to do that.

This is Square Enix & Yoshi's development group at there best.
They don't check, They don't test. They don't care unless it means money
Think i'm wrong log into the mogstation & compare costs to other games, Log into Amazon.co.jp & check merchandise that come with codes for in game, check your subscription costs that are for 8 chars instead of 1 which is utilized by RMT's (the majority of the FFXIV playerbase to date) & makes the average 1 char player overpay for his subscription! Once again Mogstation check it, Its correct, Legit & True.

The games in a sorry state behind the scenes, Fan Boi's will argue otherwise but it really is. They rince repeat everything (including bad stuff), add "End Game" to gathering (scripts) which already has/Had a bad end game to begin with (timers on gathering) which isnt what players asked for at the time. Crafting basicly the same since SE didn't do stat controller. ARR>HW>SB now have mixed markers that mean the same or different things which is confusing.
Actually i'll give some specific examples on this to ruin some of those Fan Boi's fantasys & have reason to report Forum CM's if they try to ban me for speaking the truth!
Bardam's mettle - Rush = move away
Amdapor Keep HM- Valfodr = Run to boss
Same marker (one small exception if you are far enough for "Rush" [Stormblood] Arrows appear, Very important you need to have decent distance for them to appear, to show its a distance lowering damage mechanic as first appeared in Heavensward - Alexander if memory is correct), same mechanic (more or less) different actions for same markers.

Purple Single Marker - Five-headed Dragon (World of darkness) = Stack
Same marker as Scylla lighting ball one from Sycrus tower which is a run orb to pillar, but also looks like single damage/AOE attack on player marker.
(4) Arrows pointing inwards - Most content mainly SB - Stack

I was originally going to point out on bard rotation is also as important as gear, theres 3 you can do, all do around 5-7k dps. all lose around 1k DPS if you don't keep DOT's up 100%
Actually to add to above Bard would be in line with the other classes if they tested it & added the Straight Shot Additional Effect: Increases critical hit rate by 10% to apply on Refulgent Arrow use so you can refresh DOT's in every fight at 0-3 seconds (some people wont understand this). Testing is key, shame they never do it! then again if they had a better combat designer they could of removed iron jaws & made the double dot refresh on Windbite/Stormbite. while adding another skill/dot/Self buff.....
As i said Square Enix for ya expect what you currently see because they live in hindsight while players have Foresight & the Fan Boi's are Submissive!