bards and their ...

[Ooshima]

- army's is another 30 tp every tick on top of the usual 60 (your melees gonna love dat)
- mage ballad tops off your healers, opening room for oshit ress or maybe dps

1) Something's wrong if your raid's melees ask you to play Peon during a raid. Something's VERY wrong. They need better TP management.

2) In a raid/specific fight, there will be a planned time for Mage's Ballad. From T1 to T7 my healers almost never called for it. Times when they need it is when WHM dies and was raised, or during progressions there were mistakes and deaths and WHM expanded MP a little faster, then they'll call for it. A bard doesn't simply play Ballad for fun and keep healer's MP over the top. Good healers knows good MP management.

[Argyle_Darkheart]

1) Something's wrong if your raid's melees ask you to play Peon during a raid. Something's VERY wrong. They need better TP management.

Turn 8. Although, other than that, Paeon is pretty much uncalled for (was pretty useful in early Turn 4).

[Ooshima]

Turn 8. Although, other than that, Paeon is pretty much uncalled for (was pretty useful in early Turn 4).

Yeah, the few exceptions - which I trust experienced players already know it.

T8 on later stage might not need to call for Paeon though (just something I feel). Probably like T4 when people just started, Paeon was used more frequently until people were more geared and were able to deal more dmg per TP spent and thus, reduced the need for Paeon.

But again even for progression, Paeon is hardly being called for. The MP have priority on Mage Ballad to sustain heals and Foe for hard DPS checks.