How to Bard?

[Obysuca]

Don't play songs when you don't need to. Except foe requiem.

Just like to point out, when not in a fight, constantly keep swiftsong up, it makes running to the next fight a lot quicker. Even if it's only a few second run, still makes it quicker.

Try to keep an eye on your healer's MP and if falls to 20% or lower, play mage's ballad.

Personally, I do it around ~45%. Depending on what you're doing, 20% could be too low if the whm has to spam cures to keep people up.


Now for my brd advice >.> You need to see everything. It's quite different from the standard DD where you just look out for AoEs. As brd, you should be constantly checking over at the mages mp every so often, while looking out for AoEs and anything you should or can if theres nothing dangerous, like a magic AoE like Fire or something being casted, silence. Also, I see so many brds not doing this, but keep your DoTs up as much as possible. Theres so many brds out there who just spam 1-2 skills instead of using their DoTs (actually this applies to a ton of people who never use DoTs lol). Drg spamming their AoE? Paeon. As that image said, it doesn't matter if it lowers your damage, you're support, you help the pt overall do more, not to mention theres damage buff skills you can use if you need more while having ballad or paeon up.

This bugs the crap out of me when I have other brds in my pt. Check the other brd before using a song, it's a waste to have two of the same song up. I've come across so many brds who, while I already have ballad up because of low mp on the healers, that they go and decide to throw it up too and completely ignore that mine was already up and I still have a good chunk of mp left. Not trying to be rude or anything, but is it that hard to take 2 seconds to look at what song, if any, the other brd is using?

Also, bring elixirs and stuff, you can never be too prepared.