Quote Originally Posted by mallleable View Post
I have become kind of a DOT hater as well mostly because xiv doesn't handle them well at all. I do miss how procs scaled in AOE, but that can be achieved though means that aren't DOTs like making a portion of your procs be tied to weapon skills delivered that way you get a proc chance for every enemy hit by Ladonsbite for example. On top of that, Iron Jaws just feels out of place on BRD, its animations are neither music nor archery related. If BRD really needs timers to manage, then I feel like making song upkeep a bit more of an active process would be more bard-like than DOT management.
If you don't mind elaborating, how do you feel DoTs could be made better in XIV? I can see how DoTs and Iron Jaws don't really fit the Bard aesthetic and are more of an Archer thing, but if we're being honest, that's kinda what Bard is in XIV. The only parts related to music at the moment are their buffs. Songs, Radiant Finale, and I suppose Battle Voice could be considered "musical." I wouldn't mind leaning more into the musical side, removing DoTs and providing something else to upkeep. But that's getting beyond the scope of what I intended with this post and far beyond something they could provide to us in the time span of 7.0-ish. My hopes were to bring these core issues to attention so that they could hopefully be addressed without a rework and before 8.0 or later.