Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part X! (General Questions)

[NakatsuShizuru]

Is the development team possibly reconsidering the alterations to Bard? More specifically, can we go into detail about what will happen to the Bard class? As it stands right now, it actually is outperformed by almost every other DPS class, and even has penalties to use the utility-based abilities (for the exception of Foe Requiem); if we look at Summoner, the amount of damage that the damage over time spells do alone would outclass a bard. A Bard falls off the DPS charts dramatically if the battle lasts over four minutes after extensive testing and is still prone to nearly all movement-based encounters as any other class is. If Foe Requiem's massive damage increase when coupled with Battle Voice is part of the problem, how about Battle Voice itself is altered? It could allow two songs at once to be placed with the same static 20% damage loss, for example. Is the Bard nerf actually necessary after any sort of reconsideration you may have?