A Bard Thought

[ty_taurus]

Ehh?! No bueno senor. I don't agree with this idea. While I am all for a discussion in regards to having different "stances" as it were, I don't think we have to make any significant changes to the tool kit already available to bards. The only change that I would like to overall see is that while in, let's call it bard form for now, that our songs include an "inspiration" to the party in form of a buff at the cost of personal dps while ranger form stays as bard is currently designed at the present, which is more focused on providing dps and their "songs" procing the repertoire they need to sustain that.

That will never work either. All it takes is for Bard Form's support to increase rDPS by even as little as 100 and suddenly no one will ever tolerate any Bard playing in Ranger Form. The same is true in reverse. The Support has an overall decrease in rDPS by as little as 100? Now every Bard that chooses Bard Form will get kicked from statics.

The only way a form system will work is if the rDPS of the group is 100% identical for both forms OR one of the forms is worse, but brings something required for Statics if another job can't bring that. The later just creates a world no one wants: Some aspect of DPS support is required in all forms of content making Bard form Bard or Dancer mandatory, and all Bard players are forced to flex between both styles, not just choose the one that fits for you. Basically, you would want Bard form Bard and Ranger Form Bard to be Selene and Eos.