BARD resource?

[Hybris-Maenad]

Thank you for the help and how direct it was. Very much appreciated

Wide volley and rain of death are outdated. Quick knock is 20mp less than wide volley with the same potency and has a much larger area once you get your positioning down and can visualize your range. Free rain of death procs are nice, but unreliable. RoD was nice back when it had the damage debuff, but it's definatly not worth the gamble now that it only affects accuracy.

[Laraul]

Wide volley and rain of death are outdated. Quick knock is 20mp less than wide volley with the same potency and has a much larger area once you get your positioning down and can visualize your range. Free rain of death procs are nice, but unreliable. RoD was nice back when it had the damage debuff, but it's definatly not worth the gamble now that it only affects accuracy.

Well it takes 6 2/3s Wide Vollys to get a free Rain of Death TP which saves you the amount you'd save using nine Quick Knocks. Rain of death also lowers every target hit with a -10% evasion debuff.

I guess it's choose your poison...

[blowfin]

Wide volley and rain of death are outdated. Quick knock is 20mp less than wide volley with the same potency and has a much larger area once you get your positioning down and can visualize your range. Free rain of death procs are nice, but unreliable. RoD was nice back when it had the damage debuff, but it's definatly not worth the gamble now that it only affects accuracy.

Yep, and 2.2 saw a range increase for Quick Knock too, which was really it's only downside. Using Wide Volley for the free RoD is a good way to burn TP faster.

Kind of silly that BRD's two highest level AOE attacks are just about pointless, but it might change in the future:

On a somewhat related note, however, Yoshida mentioned during Letter from the Producer LIVE XIV that we will be looking into making adjustments to actions that are not used very much by each job.

[Shadygrove]

Macros....

PC player here, my only macros are my OCD buffs, all on one spammy macro. Just the way I play is all.

On our AoEs, I prefer I prefer WV because of distance and circularity. I will close to QN range and use it, but honestly I so rarely have to pop invigorate I see only range and positioning as the differences between the two.