Bard's 6.1 changes - why bother?

[Ayche]

I would rather have a single button that changes based on song played. It could cycle between Bloodletter, Pitch Perfect and something new for Paeon.
Pitch Perfect feels like such a vestigial button like this.

[Ralt21]

Blood letter needs to stay separate from pitch perfect as it is one ogcd that we used since the beginning of the job. but i do like the idea of giving armies something aswell. now that can obviously be combined with pitch perfect button.

also i havent removed the old pithc perfect button, which still works. so only newbies to bard and if accident ever happens to my pc or something do i have to suffer from this retarded change.

[HyoMinPark]

I would rather have a single button that changes based on song played. It could cycle between Bloodletter, Pitch Perfect and something new for Paeon.
Pitch Perfect feels like such a vestigial button like this.

Bloodletter being tied to Mage’s won’t work because we use the oGCD outside of Mage’s Ballad. Pitch Perfect only worked being consolidated because it can only be used within Minuet. That said, I don’t particularly care one way or another for the change. I will just continue to keep the buttons separate, as they have been for 4+ years. This job doesn’t have button bloat, and the consolidation wasn’t inherently needed.

Probably won’t be taking BRD into random content until they address the fact that they broke Minuet/PP, though. It would be my luck I take it into the new 24-man and there’s two other BRDs in my alliance or something equally horrible. I’m guessing the bug was an oversight but…really? It wasn’t tested? It wasn’t thought to be tested??

Who am I kidding, though. This is the same dev team who didn’t balance BRD around DRG’s piercing resistance down so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

[Ayche]

Bloodletter being tied to Mage’s won’t work because we use the oGCD outside of Mage’s Ballad. Pitch Perfect only worked being consolidated because it can only be used within Minuet. That said, I don’t particularly care one way or another for the change. I will just continue to keep the buttons separate, as they have been for 4+ years. This job doesn’t have button bloat, and the consolidation wasn’t inherently needed.

Probably won’t be taking BRD into random content though until they address the fact that they broke Minuet/PP, though. It would be my luck I take it into the new 24-man and there’s two other BRDs in my alliance or something equally horrible. I’m guessing the bug was an oversight but…really? It wasn’t tested? It wasn’t thought to be tested??

Who am I kidding, though. This is the same dev team who did balance BRD around DRG’s piercing resistance down so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

Oh I know, I was implying bloodletter would be exclusive to M's Ballad, maybe to make each song feel more different from each other.
It is just idle thoughts really. If there is actually an action that needs either removal or redevelopment, it is Sidewinder. It is just very boring after it lost its conditionality, even if you ought to have never dropped the dot upkeeps.

[HyoMinPark]

Oh I know, I was implying bloodletter would be exclusive to M's Ballad, maybe to make each song feel more different from each other.
It is just idle thoughts really. If there is actually an action that needs either removal or redevelopment, it is Sidewinder. It is just very boring after it lost its conditionality, even if you ought to have never dropped the dot upkeeps.

I’d rather not see Mage’s lock BL usage to just it. Having it lower the CD for more frequent usage is enough, in my opinion.

I would rather see Sidewinder return to scaling off of the DoTs. Maybe it wasn’t the most interesting interaction, but at least it was an interaction. That the DoTs are so meaningless now and have no interactivity with the toolkit makes me worry they will be cut in 7.0, and I really don’t want that. The job is still not the BRD I loved in the past, and I just don’t want to see it continued to be stripped down.

[Ayche]

I’d rather not see Mage’s lock BL usage to just it. Having it lower the CD for more frequent usage is enough, in my opinion.

I would rather see Sidewinder return to scaling off of the DoTs. Maybe it wasn’t the most interesting interaction, but at least it was an interaction. That the DoTs are so meaningless now and have no interactivity with the toolkit makes me worry they will be cut in 7.0, and I really don’t want that. The job is still not the BRD I loved in the past, and I just don’t want to see it continued to be stripped down.

There would just be nothing left really if they DoTs were removed. Keeping track of the timers while smashing away Shots and Arrows atleast keeps the brain cells atleast somewhat active.
Then again, I never expected 6.0 SMN to happen either...

[QT_Melon]

Probably won’t be taking BRD into random content until they address the fact that they broke Minuet/PP, though. It would be my luck I take it into the new 24-man and there’s two other BRDs in my alliance or something equally horrible. I’m guessing the bug was an oversight but…really? It wasn’t tested? It wasn’t thought to be tested??

I dunno...(sarcasm) I was told that Double Bards were easily able to easily clear the new EX trial with 1/2 of our kit messed up if both pressed WM but...nah it's not a big deal right?