Bard Nerfs Offically Confirmed

[Leonas]

Same for dragoons. They used to have archer as cross class which was great for raging strikes and straight shot and now they have MRD.
That being said fracture and mercy stroke arent too shabby, considering its coming from a tank.

Ooooops. I actually meant DRG instead of MNK there. I dunno where my brain went.

Anyhow. BRD is probably the only class with two USEFUL subclasses, well, that I played or my wife has. I kind of think they'll switch out LNC from BRD's subclass set and probably make some of its better attacks a cast time.

Hell, its even possible that they mgiht put a cast time on songs and leave the attacks as they are. Either a mildly long cast time or worse, make songs channeled so you have to stand in place and do nothing else except song. However, they'd need to increase song gain on MP/TP etc from that. /shrug

[Klutz64]

They could always just fold the Bard's DPS role into its Support role by giving them a party-wide damage buff.

[Leonas]

They could always just fold the Bard's DPS role into its Support role by giving them a party-wide damage buff.

They can't exactly do that don't think, or they'll have to give them a unique que slot as support instead dps.

[Bongcrosby]

They could always just fold the Bard's DPS role into its Support role by giving them a party-wide damage buff.

omg a reasonable and sensible post!

you win the internet

[Misaky]

Ooooops. I actually meant DRG instead of MNK there. I dunno where my brain went.
Anyhow. BRD is probably the only class with two USEFUL subclasses, well, that I played or my wife has. I kind of think they'll switch out LNC from BRD's subclass set and probably make some of its better attacks a cast time.
Hell, its even possible that they mgiht put a cast time on songs and leave the attacks as they are. Either a mildly long cast time or worse, make songs channeled so you have to stand in place and do nothing else except song. However, they'd need to increase song gain on MP/TP etc from that. /shrug

I always tout it was weird for monk and lancer not have the archer skills... anyway, i think it would be much more fair if they just made monk/lancer get the skills from archer instead of marauder.

Btw.. the songs already got a cast time, and is a big one.

edit: scholar and whm also got the 2 best sub-classes they could ever had!
scholar goes grab swift-cast from blm and the wall from whm.
whm goes grab swift-cast from blm and virus from arcanist.

[Supersun]

I always tout it was weird for monk and lancer not have the archer skills... anyway, i think it would be much more fair if they just made monk/lancer get the skills from archer instead of marauder.

Btw.. the songs already got a cast time, and is a big one.

edit: scholar and whm also got 2 good sub-classes!
scholar goes grab swift-cast from blm and the wall from whm.
whm goes grab swift-cast from blm and virus from arcanist.

And Smn gets Swiftcast from Blm and Raging Strikes from Arc.