Most difficult DPS class to play?

[KingSora]

Being a main Bard myself I have to be honest, from a pure DPS standpoint, it is easy. You can be mobile and still do damage, and the pressure is not on you to deal loads of damage because you aren't expected too. However, there is an aspect of Bard that sometimes gets overlooked. I was doing Ifrit HM the other day and both WHM started running out of MP and we wiped. Who do you think took the blame because he didn't pop up Mage's Ballad? This guy. While not entirely my fault that they weren't managing their MP, it still didn't make me look good. No doubt the DPS aspect is easy peasy. Just don't forget everything else with it.

[LetBloodline]

Being a main Bard myself I have to be honest, from a pure DPS standpoint, it is easy. You can be mobile and still do damage, and the pressure is not on you to deal loads of damage because you aren't expected too. However, there is an aspect of Bard that sometimes gets overlooked. I was doing Ifrit HM the other day and both WHM started running out of MP and we wiped. Who do you think took the blame because he didn't pop up Mage's Ballad? This guy. While not entirely my fault that they weren't managing their MP, it still didn't make me look good. No doubt the DPS aspect is easy peasy. Just don't forget everything else with it.

Where the "everything else" is watch WHM's MP?

[Selli]

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As a WHM main, I can tell you that if you have to raise 2-3 people within about 10 minutes. You're mana is going to be incredibly low, even with proper use of Shroud. Raise is incredibly costly.

However, as a DPS, you shouldn't be babysitting the MP party list like a healer looking for something to esuna.

If a WHM or a SCH or whoever else needs a song played, they should be asking. If they were spamming a macro asking you to play Ballad 20+ times in the chat with those annoying twinkly sound effects; then yes, that's 100% on you for not paying attention. But if they're not saying anything at all even when their MP is in the triple digits, that is on them.