Bard Nerfs Offically Confirmed

[Woodberry]

Being last does not matter if ALL classes are close enough to each other.....

They are a good 15% behind.

[Alexandermaximillion]

than you so much for the Nerf. Bard use Arrows and can run around. I got a great idea let make Whm have the highest dps and heals where we all can be whm, Or any other Magic user. Heaven forbid, that and spell casting and running around is not good. Have you ever thought that when your a spell caster you need to concentrate for there spells y dont we take that a way where they all round around with no wait time. Just venting cause people who cried where spell casters. Thank you have a NICE DAY

[Mattaus]

Since myself is a Bard main, and have played Ranger to lvl 99 in FFXI i feel really if they want to nerf bards damage they could just put in the same thing ranger had in FFXI.

This was you do less damge depending on how far away you were to the target and you had to find the "Sweet Spot" as they used to call it to gain max damage output.

I feel that this is all they would have to do, as staying in the "Sweet Spot" would be hard for bards especially in Titan where you are constantly moving and dodging.

[Lecreuset]

Since myself is a Bard main, and have played Ranger to lvl 99 in FFXI i feel really if they want to nerf bards damage they could just put in the same thing ranger had in FFXI.

This was you do less damge depending on how far away you were to the target and you had to find the "Sweet Spot" as they used to call it to gain max damage output.

I feel that this is all they would have to do, as staying in the "Sweet Spot" would be hard for bards especially in Titan where you are constantly moving and dodging.

Not a bad idea but I think I prefer Incrased action damage I and II only working if you stand still for atleast 3 seconds and instantly lose the benefit if you move

[Nyxia-Salix]

People who are complaining about how BRDs do in battle are insecure about their own class. We have our issues like everyone else, like not being able to move when casting songs that -HELP PARTY MEMBERS-. We can't move while casting Ballad for your WHM MP, we can't move for any other songs for TP or elemental resistance either.
WE ARE MEANT TO BE A RANGED CLASS. Just like BLM! MNK is obviously impossible to be Ranged, and so is Dragoon! It's like asking WAR to heal a dungeon! We all have our jobs to do, BRDs just do it differently!
The 20% argument is also stupid! Our cool downs last a while too, we run out of TP fast, and every time we have to pop a song, we lose a lot of damage that can be done. This nerf makes me not want to play the class I started as. I chose this class for the freedom it gives you as a DD, and now all that is going to be taken away? We have bad HP, our attacks get weaker through fights, and now you're going to make us do LESS because some people cry about it?

[Guilty_King]

As far as Bards are concerned, yes they are DPS role based, otherwise they would have their own icon for groups. If SE really wanted them to be a support roll, they would have more support powers, or more buffs.

My main is a Dragoon, and yes Bards have it easy, do they deserve a nerf? No.
I'd rather see melee DPS get a buff then see Bards nerfed.

Or if they would split up the Bard role, and the Archer role. Kinda how they have Summoner/Scholar role, both based off (arcanist?). This way we still get our range DPS with no cast times, and we get our pure support role.

I love my Dragoon, but after playing an Archer to 32 so far, it is much more fun.

Are endgame fights easier for Bards? Yes because they are ranged, are they focussed in on one aspect? No. They micromanage their group. Every MMO always nerfs classes left and right, SE for once, please just do a buff to melee.

[Charas]

Can you plz explain me how a Bard could have it easy compared to a dragoon, or even a monk, while in most of the end game content we have way way more things to take care of than any other DPS?
Do others DPS really concider that keeping up their rotation, sitting on the flank, sometimes going to the back of the boss, and dodging a timable red circle on some encounters is really something hard?

Jealousy and rage of ppl who fail to kill titan won't stop to amaze me... and even there! (did it several time on my monk) it s way easier to be a melee than it is to be ranged (way less probability to be surrounded by a nasty field of plumes)

so what s the point of all that crap?

[Kolaina]

Jealousy and rage of ppl who fail to kill titan won't stop to amaze me... and even there! (did it several time on my monk) it s way easier to be a melee than it is to be ranged (way less probability to be surrounded by a nasty field of plumes)

i started with a bard. got my relic bow, then switched to dragoon, now relic'd also. was telling my friend/fc member this same thing. i found doing the titan dance a joke on my dragoon compared to when i played bard having to run through multiple plumes to get to a safe spot as opposed to side stepping for a second.

[Arkh]

i started with a bard. got my relic bow, then switched to dragoon, now relic'd also. was telling my friend/fc member this same thing. i found doing the titan dance a joke on my dragoon compared to when i played bard having to run through multiple plumes to get to a safe spot as opposed to side stepping for a second.

^ this

or do we want to talk about tanking titan?

[Aureliami]

i started with a bard. got my relic bow, then switched to dragoon, now relic'd also. was telling my friend/fc member this same thing. i found doing the titan dance a joke on my dragoon compared to when i played bard having to run through multiple plumes to get to a safe spot as opposed to side stepping for a second.

It's impossible for titan to be easier on dragoon than it is on bard, because as a bard you can stand in the exact same spots dragoons are standing.

Melee can only have it harder, not easier, unless there is a specific mechanic that only targets ranged and that doesn't exist in this game.