Direction of Bard?

[carraway]

I love BRD in its current state, but it is most assuredly a type of support class: very solid single-target DPS buffeted with songs. Others who play/played ARC may prefer a pure ranged DPS role, but I appreciate how much BRD can influence a fight positively or negatively. BV Paeon in particular is beautiful to watch when you have several melee DPS jobs in the party.

In a dungeon like AV, the BRD can serve an absolutely pivotal role as a co-leader with the tank, grabbing chests, swapping songs, pulling, etc.

The only adjustment I might want is some way of dealing a portion of elemental damage.

[NickZenith]

I feel an Attack/Magic attack song would be more useful than an accuracy + song considering a full party boost to accuracy is already in game when a group is formed. The 15minword ability feels mildly weak as well. Ballard of the magi, and the tp song are fine ^^

[Estellios]

I feel an Attack/Magic attack song would be more useful than an accuracy + song considering a full party boost to accuracy is already in game when a group is formed. The 15minword ability feels mildly weak as well. Ballard of the magi, and the tp song are fine ^^

Most players won't have accuracy as good as they used to before 1.21 since they fixed a bug in the accuracy calculations that was pretty much giving us perfect accuracy. Not to mention having the accuracy/maccuracy song up lets them go full on attack with gear. It's not useful all the time but still worth having when those situations arise.

It is an interesting question as to what exactly would distinguish a rdm class, since convert has been given to blm. I suppose refresh is still an option.

They could forgo following in FF11's footsteps and make Red Mage play like it used to in older games, giving it a wide variety of spells for versatility and Doublecast.

[AceofRains]

I love BRD in its current state, but it is most assuredly a type of support class: very solid single-target DPS buffeted with songs. Others who play/played ARC may prefer a pure ranged DPS role, but I appreciate how much BRD can influence a fight positively or negatively. BV Paeon in particular is beautiful to watch when you have several melee DPS jobs in the party.

In a dungeon like AV, the BRD can serve an absolutely pivotal role as a co-leader with the tank, grabbing chests, swapping songs, pulling, etc.

The only adjustment I might want is some way of dealing a portion of elemental damage.

Elemental arrows would be nice.

But then again no ones stopping you from making a mage-bard build. Possible, but it just doesn't compliment that your songs are buffs.