Marksman jobs and keyboard faceroll playstyle

[SaitoHikari]

Thing is, the only time that ranged had a relatively high skill ceiling which allowed better play to show, people complained that they had short cast times, that mch was too complicated and double ranged meta became king (don't know why thats necessarily a bad thing though)

And not just that, double ranged meta only became a thing because of piercing debuff from Dragoon, not because of anything the ranged actually did. You can’t blame the Bards for wanting a free damage buff along with a crit chance skill, but the way the devs treat Bard now, you’d think they blamed us for how the meta turned out in SB, when we just merely benefited the most from everyone else’s buffs.

Bard also did have a very high skill ceiling in Stormblood, based around manipulating your proc rates around party buffs. They took that away from us in ShB with the across the board utility nerfs to every class at once, along with splitting our procs away from crit chance. The more I play current Bard, the more I become convinced that the current 40% repertoire proc is nowhere near enough to recapture the pace that SB Bard had in a raid setting. In the devs justification for making our class less reliant on RNG and thus more easily accessible, they gave us a proc rate low enough that we’re actually even MORE at the mercy of it due to the inability to manipulate our chances higher, especially in a single target setting.

Do you know how it feels to get only one fully powered Pitch Perfect in your 20 second raging strikes window? Not only does it mean you missed out on additional uses of one of your core burst skills, it also means the charge up time for Apex Arrow got pushed further into the fight. The RNG likely won’t make it up for you later. It’s absurdly inconsistent as is, one opener I get procs like crazy and leaving Minuet with 23k+ rdps, the next opener I’m barely doing more than the tanks.

Granted, I was the person that made the pre-expansion thread telling fellow Bards to calm down and that things weren’t going to be as bad as they seemed, that we still had plenty of advantages. I completely regret ever making that thread now.

These days I’m leveling Ninja since I’m interested in how it plays. Enough to consider taking it into raids, when I exclusively played Bard in a raid setting for the past three years and achieved 97+ percentile across the board for the current raid tier and UwU pre-expansion. If my first week performance as a new Ninja somehow ends up contributing more rDPS than literally one of the top ~150 Bard performers in the world... That’s going to be a really bad feeling.

[Neela]

These days I’m leveling Ninja since I’m interested in how it plays. Enough to consider taking it into raids, when I exclusively played Bard in a raid setting for the past three years and achieved 97+ percentile across the board for the current raid tier and UwU pre-expansion. If my first week performance as a new Ninja somehow ends up contributing more rDPS than literally one of the top ~150 Bard performers in the world... That’s going to be a really bad feeling.

I guess it will end up with way more rDPS... if it even can beat Sam in some tiers like e1s or ultimates... : /