So how would you buff bard? (Just like to hear peoples thoughts)

[Shurrikhan]

So I misremembered the exact values of the % damage debuff on Bard songs from 12 years ago lol. That doesn’t really change anything about the point that Bard was so overpowered people were stacking it nor does it address the abject terror Bard has put into devs since that debacle. What exactly is the point of the post you’re trying to make except ‘oh btw you’re technically wrong by 5% [but also right]’ lol? Isn’t that a little pedantic?

That the entire game's paradigms regarding burst self-buffs have changed since then (hell, since 2.1), so the fear hasn't been warranted for any reason remotely approaching what you wrote in a long ass time (again, basically since 2.1).

It was overpowered only for reasons that were game wide or due simply to grossly negligent tuning to other jobs, and those issues were fixed with the gamewide changes and general job balance.

It had next to nothing to do specifically with Bard or even physical ranged. They simply hadn't tuned the game worth a damn yet and underestimated massive multiplicatively stacking multipliers (1.3x1.15x1.2x1.2x1.1").

Both your claims about the problem and solution were wrong and your conclusion wouldn't follow soundly even if they were correct. I wouldn't have mentioned anything otherwise.

Fair enough but as personal taste, I'd hate it. I don't like juggling dots, just not my cup of tea. I find the proc and priority system a lot more interesting on that job.

Outside of maybe songs... what priority system exists outside of deciding between to risk wasting a Hawk's Eye stacks when refreshing DoTs, though? As long as you're targeting correctly, there's never a time where both Shadowbite and Ladon can compete with each other, let alone Refulgent and Burst Shot.