Quote Originally Posted by Rathael View Post
I tried bard in Stormblood. I love the concept and I love hooking up our digital piano to my laptop to play in performance mode directly from my piano...

But I really do not like the execution of the class. I do not see what the point of just rolling one song after another is. I don't find it terribly engaging or interesting. I also don't feel it really reflects the class fantasy. there is basically no decision-making with regards to song. You just have to make sure you have one playing. That's it. There is probably hardly any difference in playing them in a different order.... or if there is, it is EXTREMELY stretched and you have to seriously min-max for minimal gains. It could be done so much better.

I would prefer something much more involved with songs.

I think it would be interesting if you had high pDPS as a bard but you could sacrifice pDPS by playing songs instead to buff your party. Then they might have both a pDPS rotation and a "song playing" rotation that involves "combos" or something like that.

Song combos would be pretty sweet.
We will see what we get tomorrow patch 5.05. Pretty sure it will just be brainless damage number.
The songs and improved ability design will have to wait till next expansion as always.