Point allocation for Bard

[Reiterpallasch]

You should be putting them into piety. As a BRD you'll want to have maximum uptime on your songs. If you're not playing a song, you're not really doing your job. You're support, not dps. Crit and acc aren't going to help you support your party, but longer songs will.

[Espi]

You should be putting them into piety. As a BRD you'll want to have maximum uptime on your songs. If you're not playing a song, you're not really doing your job. You're support, not dps. Crit and acc aren't going to help you support your party, but longer songs will.

Don't do this^. Put all into dexterity. Songs are situational at best. The Battle Voice duration should be enough to to take care of what the party needs. After BV is over drop the song. Foe's Requiem is only really helpful for BLMs and it does squat for Wind Bite and Flaming Arrow.

BRD is only a support class when the party needs it (which is not much, mostly towards the end of fights) any other time (aka most of the time) you are just a DD so spec for that.

[Kolaina]

You should be putting them into piety. As a BRD you'll want to have maximum uptime on your songs. If you're not playing a song, you're not really doing your job. You're support, not dps. Crit and acc aren't going to help you support your party, but longer songs will.

lol what?
songs are situational. if you need longer songs, either you waited too long to cast, or your healers/tanks are doing something wrong for the healer to burn through so much mp. on top of that, having your songs up too long can hinder your party also when it comes to burn phases

[nathanuc1988]

I think the Piety comment was a joke.

Yes, we are support, but as the lore goes, we provide support by dealing damage from a distance and provide supporting songs when needed.

We'll have around 2,000 MP at 50 which is 'enough'.