Hello, I’m a noob to Bard and FF14 in general. Currently lvl 83 and find this a very squishy job to level, it would be nice if there were less PvP circus tricks (Foot Graze, Leg Graze) etc.) while in PvE and better options for mitigation and health management. I did get Troubadour around level 60, so there's that I guess.

I recently got Apex Arrow and was surprised it is on a GCD, and considering Bard’s other oGCD abilities it feels kind of clunky. Apex Arrow also has a somewhat lengthy build up and then a little drop comes out. I would also like to see the DoTs oGCD as well, or removed altogether, they add little to gameplay and there’s plenty of other things to keep track of. It takes fifteen seconds to dot up three mobs, so now I just dot the one that looks different and call it good, there should be an AoE option for this.

Despite Bard being a whack-a-mole type job, I’m currently enjoying it. I did level a Warrior to lvl 50 or so on another character and the gameplay felt really good. Pity there isn’t a Warrior DPS job available.