Quote Originally Posted by ExcogEnjoyer View Post
Battle Voice and Radiant Finale are 2 of the most boring buff skills in the game, Battle Voice and Radiant Finale have 0 interaction with the rest of the kit, indistinguishable from other raid buffs like Searing Light or Battle Litany. And before you protest, no, Minstrel's Codas are not "interaction" they're vestigial organs to a functionality that square deleted from the game before we could even get to play with it. If you deleted BV and RF from the game and replaced them with Foe Requiem, Bard would be a more fun class to play almost instantly.

You're also missing a rather large part of the story in 5.X. When Foe Requiem got carved out of Bard's kit, it wasn't a simple "Ok we're taking this and giving you something else similar because we think Foe Requiem is a bit weird and we want to standardize it a bit." It was "We're taking this skill that was core to Bard's identity through ARR, HW and SB and replacing it with FUCKING NOTHING."
Sorry but I disagree, I do feel it does interact with the kit, and I do like the coda system. Is it a pale imitation/far cry of the interactivity of the Refresh/Foe's Requiem mini game we played during Stormblood Bard? Of course it is. But after Shadowbringers I've learned how important even a single action can matter to class fantasy. It might be more shallow, but it feels impactful, and feels supportive overall due to the layering of three party wide buffs at once (WM, Finale, and BV all within a few seconds).

Would I take back Foe's Requiem/Refresh in an instant over it? Yes. But I'm operating under the idea that would never be an option. Which since that is most likely the case, they better never touch BV and Finale. I dropped Bard in Shadowbringers because of the loss of FR, and I would drop it again if I lost our raid wide buffs again. I don't care if they supplanted them with some individual buffing mechanic. I like being a raid wide buff class. That's fun to me. Even if it's just a single button press, I like calling out buff times to my static, I like seeing the animation of BV and Finale go off, I like seeing all the buff icons pop up on my party, and I like watching the damage numbers skyrocket across the group in those moments. It's a good gaming feeling. And I feel very confident based on the history of this game I'm not the only one who feels that way. OP's idea would remove all of that. Screw that.