Is bard in a bad spot right now?

[Taranok]

BL charges should start at lower lvls once u get mage ballad for example

Honestly, I just hate how mage's ballad works. It's wanderer's minuet but with a more annoying rotation. In my eyes, they could delete AP and MB, cause BL to upgrade into PP, and a significant chunk of Bard's problems would be fixed, while also breaking the one thing giving Bard anything resembling a theme which, in this case, is actually not good.

Even having 2 stacks, it will overcap because you can get 2 procs at once, so now you just have even more button spam without fixing the underlying problem of mage's ballad. Quite an interesting solution that also just flat out arrives way too late.

[Grimoire-M]

Honestly, I just hate how mage's ballad works. It's wanderer's minuet but with a more annoying rotation. In my eyes, they could delete AP and MB, cause BL to upgrade into PP, and a significant chunk of Bard's problems would be fixed, while also breaking the one thing giving Bard anything resembling a theme which, in this case, is actually not good.

Even having 2 stacks, it will overcap because you can get 2 procs at once, so now you just have even more button spam without fixing the underlying problem of mage's ballad. Quite an interesting solution that also just flat out arrives way too late.

Honestly at the 40% rate you'll have enough time to deal with it more often than not. The only way you get screwed is if you get a double proc into an uninterrupted string of single procs (as many as you want within the duration, the cooldown timer and GCD alignment will ensure you'll always have to press something) into another double proc. That's fairly unlikely to happen in the first place. More often than not you'll get no procs at all at least once in between the doubles and singles and be able to get out of the potential logjam in time (It's a 2.56% chance of happening assuming we ignore any interim singles) so your best bet is to make sure you enter the phase with no Bloodletter stacks at all. I can see the uninterrupted cooldown timer and that moment screwing it up a bit, but those aren't the worst thing. I do agree it probably should have more charges regardless, just to account for the cooldown ticking over that duration and actually giving you an out.

Pitch Perfect's honestly worse in terms of feel because the odds aren't in favor of pressing it at 2 stacks like it used to be. In that rare window where crit buffs aligned perfectly it basically had inbuilt overcap protection. As a result if you knew you were 63% crit it was always correct to press it at 2 stacks and hold on 1, making it impossible to ever lose a stack outside of that last tick window.

[Warlyx]

Honestly, I just hate how mage's ballad works. It's wanderer's minuet but with a more annoying rotation. In my eyes, they could delete AP and MB, cause BL to upgrade into PP, and a significant chunk of Bard's problems would be fixed, while also breaking the one thing giving Bard anything resembling a theme which, in this case, is actually not good.

Even having 2 stacks, it will overcap because you can get 2 procs at once, so now you just have even more button spam without fixing the underlying problem of mage's ballad. Quite an interesting solution that also just flat out arrives way too late.

mage ballads is how brd worked in 2.0 all the time and for me it was tons of fun , annoying because BL could proc back to back too , the 2 stacks has been asked since forever , before that it was based on crits and once u were geared it was a proc fest sometimes , 3.0 well lets say that bowmage was a mistake.

its sad that SE didnt touch the enhanced paeon trait come 6.0 its a wasted opportunity to give paeon a buff , maybe give a free apex arrow cast after u gain 4 stacks something to make it fun :/

songs should buff the party harder but for less time but thats just imho ...ballad 1% dmg feels like a joke .