Let's Talk About Bard

[Myrha_Lhlalheva]

Apex>Silence>Empy>Blast,20k with silence.
Less reliance on teammate follow up than a Resolution just hitting 8k and thats it.
You can hit more if you use corps and displacement, but seems kinda wasteful blowing your movement on that unless you are sure it'll get you a kill.
You're pretty good at being willingly ignorant to the pros of your class, at least I hope its willful.

20k huh. So less than half the hp of the squishiest jobs. Let's toss the entire BRD combo in there and bring the total up to 47270, which is...still not enough to kill literally anyone with literally zero responses. Sure, Repelling Shot isnt included in there, but the likelihood of you getting two full 8820 PPs and ALSO getting close enough for RS are very slim. Everything outside of the silence window you can also just literally walk/sprint/dash away from, and how is the BRD gonna safely chase you? They can't.

"Blowing RDM mobility for dmg is weird unless you're going for a kill", well last I checked RDM wasn't a phys ranged designed to poke from the fringes, and was designed to go in and deal damage and gun for kills. That's like saying spending High Jump or Thunderclap for dmg is weird unless you're going for a kill.

[kayll]

I'd rather have a 25y line aoe silence that sits on the GCD over an oGCD silence that forces me into melee territory on a job that loses damage the closers you get to your target. Resolution is way more destructive when placed correctly than a single silence from a job with no real burst. RDM also has an aoe debuff or an aoe buff depending on their stance and has a real burst combo.

I already said its silly that BRD silence lost range, it makes no sense and I agree that should be reverted to its full range.
I never said Resolution was a bad move,I implied it was RDM's best move in my opinion. The comparison to Nocturne just makes no sense because the skills function differently and are used in different ways during a match.
Not sure why you're bringing up RDM burst or its AoE buff/debuff.

20k huh. So less than half the hp of the squishiest jobs. Let's toss the entire BRD combo in there and bring the total up to 47270, which is...still not enough to kill literally anyone with literally zero responses. Sure, Repelling Shot isnt included in there, but the likelihood of you getting two full 8820 PPs and ALSO getting close enough for RS are very slim. Everything outside of the silence window you can also just literally walk/sprint/dash away from, and how is the BRD gonna safely chase you? They can't.

"Blowing RDM mobility for dmg is weird unless you're going for a kill", well last I checked RDM wasn't a phys ranged designed to poke from the fringes, and was designed to go in and deal damage and gun for kills. That's like saying spending High Jump or Thunderclap for dmg is weird unless you're going for a kill.

I'm not sure why you think a class designed with a supportive role in a team based game should be 1 comboing half the classes in the game within a silence window,20k is pretty respectable damage to be hit by in the middle of a silence, You throw it out on people who are in a weakened state, not tab target on to full HP targets who will be able to just recoup after.
You keep summing up the overall damage BRD deals with all its abilities as if its the only important thing.
The burst being able to weave in a silence as well?
Being able to do it safely from ranged?
Being able to hotswap your burst onto priority targets?
Stopping CC peel during it with Peaen?
All if it coming out faster due to weaponskill cast time reduction?



Please reread what I said, the point of the comment was to explain that if you used both your oGCDs on RDM after Resolution it would net you an extra 8k damage within the silence, But it seems wasteful unless you are to get a kill within the silence, as it would place you too far to follow up with a melee combo unless you use another gap closer charge further adding to the waste. The comparison to DRG and and MNK make no sense in this scenario,DRG has no CC, and MNK thunderclap doesn't even deal damage to the enemy.