Let's Talk About Bard

[Myrha_Lhlalheva]

BRD falls pretty heavily into the basket of jobs that are focused on AoE pressure and peel. DNC or SCH are other culprits, but not as much as BRD and they have other strengths.

It has very poor AoE per rotation/combo for a DPS, and it has next to no protective ability--certainly no AoE protective ability.

I wouldn't say 16400 in-line AoE every 20s over 2 GCDs even qualifies for AoE pressure. Peeling with BRD is a very catch-22 situation: if you use Paean for someone else, you become much more vulnerable for the duration of its cooldown. If you use silence or Repelling Shot to peel/shut down a combo, then it's no longer available to lock down a kill.

With the Nocturne range nerf, BRD is no longer in the business of creating opportunities. All it's good for now is being a buff totem, punishing mispositioning, and gunning down fleeing enemies who have <20% HP left.