Bard - Opening Rotation and basics video guide to keep your DPS high and consistent

[Anias]

Hey guys I just made a new guide for Bard and will be making a ton more in the next few days! My next ones will cover SMN, BLM, and MNK. Check it out and tell me what you think. It's my very first video so the quality is pretty low but it will get better as I get better at making videos! Hope you enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNnOgQmdYas

[xEscaflownex]

I prefer to put down Flaming Arrow when the tank pulls > Straight Shot > RS/HE/B4B/IR > Heavy Shot/Blood Letter/Barrage/Silence Arrow > Venemous Bite/Repelling shot/Windbite for opener.

[Anias]

The reason I put flaming arrow down close to last is so that all the buffs are applied to it, the way you're doing it, your first two skills aren't getting any types of buffs so you're losing out on at LEAST 30% dmg increase from the buffs.

[xEscaflownex]

Post some parse results on dummy or real fights and well compare =P

[Mikedizzy]

I do all buffs up, straight shot, Flaming Arrow, Windbite, Blunt Arrow, Venomous Bite, repelling shot, Heavy Shot.
My Bloodletter and Misery's End go off Automatically so I never miss one. Works out great.

[Anias]

The great thing about Bard is that there are a bunch of different possibilities, your rotation is very nice and I like it .

[Anias]

I blacked out peoples names just in case but here is our Twintania parse from this week. http://i.imgur.com/PVw0rZu.png This is our groups bard who uses a very similar rotation with slight changes.

[xEscaflownex]

Hmm, you guys kill twin in under 6 minutes? that's pretty amazing...

Twin has 514,546 HP, Scourges have about 20k, Conflags 10834 small snakes 16251, Asclepius 189,598, Dreadknights 11250, total around 900k dmg to be done to end fight - most groups with good DPS end around 11 Minutes, yet somehow you did it all in 5 minutes, I don't think this is a legit parse?

And also that the BRD out does both the MNK (You), SMN (Dimach), and whatever the 4th Job was that isn't in your FC, this parse seems all messed up =P

[Anias]

No it's 9:57 min parse but that's how long we were actually doing damage for since she goes up a lot :P

Edit: This is our bards opening rotation : http://www.twitch.tv/foldasaurus/c/3887015

[xEscaflownex]

No it's 9:57 min parse but that's how long we were actually doing damage for since she goes up a lot :P

Edit: This is our bards opening rotation : http://www.twitch.tv/foldasaurus/c/3887015

Hmm ok, my ACT keeps recording duration during kill snakes and such, so end up with 11 min, not sure why ours count the fight different, ended up with exact same DMG as your BRD using my different rotation, with a bit less gear and messing about towards the end trying to get same duration ha =P, essentially a wash either way I suppose. I still don't see how he's hitting 331 over the entirety of T5 though =P.

Do you have the encounter culling set really low, and just combine the separate broken up encounters? (I would think this would result in inflating everyone's numbers compared to someone encompassing the fight in a single encounter)

Ill post capture in a moment, I just saw hes using a DEX potion =P, I'll redo adding that in, maybe I'll do more then him then =P

Ha, new to using twitch, didn't know you had to check the auto archive to have it save your broadcast, here's the parse at least, Ill make video later

http://i.imgur.com/Pzl8E55.png

I'll try his way tomorrow, but since it looks like we are equal with our slightly different rotations I would think I would pull slightly ahead if I had equal gear? Either way, both fairly similar overall I suppose, whatever's more comfortable for someone.