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    Archer/Bard Rotations?

    Sorry but searched around 20 different pages of threads and could not find anything.
    I just recently made a new Character on a different server and am rolling as an Archer.
    What sort of rotations do you all use?
    Currently only lvl 11 Archer (lvl 15 on the on my other character)
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    It's about priorities. Check out this video on youtube.

    He covers the abilities and shows you how to prioritize them.
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    Adventure, that's the life for me!

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    Thank you very much for the link
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    Alizebeth Bequin
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    Well the video is mostly wrong in the beginning.

    There are two priorities, one for on GCD and one for off GCD.

    He explains that later, but also the priority for on GCD abilities is wrong.

    The priority is more like
    1. Straight Shot (no Buff)
    2. Windbite
    3. Venomous Bite
    4. Straight Shot (proc)
    5. Heavy Shot

    Theres no reason to use straight shot (proc) immediately, unless you are following this attack with a heavy shot.

    If you need to refresh DoTs, do that instead.

    He also doesn't cover cooldowns at all (unless i missed it, i skipped around), which are a pretty important part of Bard.
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    Tele Nariel
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    Panda pretty much has it, there is no rotation for bard. Personally I end up needing to watch for an interrupt (silence) or needing to cast/swap song so my DPS suffers occasionally... but to me keeping up the support is as much my job as pure DPS.
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    Thanks Panda and Teleniel. My one character i have all classes i am levelling and archer for my blm and it felt like grinding levelling.
    Now i created a new char on another server and starting as Archer has been good so far
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