Bard: All over the battlefield?

[Spider-Dan]

Just as speculation based on other buffs in the game, this will have a 3-5 minute duration, a 1-2 minute recast, and a relatively small AoE radius (small enough that you can hit melee without hitting mages, I'm sure.^^). So I'm just wondering...will a fight for BRD go somewhat like this now?

• Run up to party. (5 seconds)
• Cast TP boost song (10 seconds)
• Cast +ACC song (10 seconds)
  
• Run to mages, and use Invigorate(10 seconds)
• Cast MP song (10 seconds)
• Still waiting on cooldown to give mages +ACC song, so run to combo distance and pull off a combo with TP from Invigorate (10-15 seconds).
• Back to mages for +ACC song. (10 seconds)
• Act as a normal ARC for 1-2 minutes.
• Repeat?

I doubt that jobs will be able to cross class abilities.

So you won't really have to worry too much about making time to DD, because you'll get back all the time that you are no longer spending managing abilities like Invigorate, Keen Flurry, and Blood For Blood (to say nothing of Second Wind, Sacred Prism, and Raise). Plus, now you'll only have to worry about using Quick Nock once every 3 minutes.

TBH, I envision BRD simply singing TP and MP songs, and calling it a day... though it will be interesting to see what non-MNK DDs use their MP on with Cures and Raises removed from their bar.