New Class: Minstrel (Radical Change to Bard Job)

[Duelle]

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Might want to add a little more burst healing, otherwise it would be very weak in 4-man dungeons.

I'm not keen on the buffs because you're essentially making this proposed class mandatory for raiding. You have a healer than can increase accuracy AND raid damage, whereas WHM and SCH can't even hope to match that. You followed the one-buff-per-class rule, which is a plus, but you're essentially forcing at least one minstrel into every party.

Using SCH as a comparison point doesn't really work since the SCH has to sacrifice healing potential in order to pull out Selene, while Selene's buff doesn't last long enough to make a difference and is generally not counted on because of that. The devs went to great trouble to limit buff reliance in the game so far, and I don't think it'd be good to go against it at this point.

[Warlyx]

you're essentially forcing at least one minstrel into every party

and thats why we wont see any buffers in FFXIV , reliance on 1 class to show up or there is no point in trying (because SE will balance the game based on minstrel present ,because if u balance around not being present , when is....the game is easy mode), bard isnt gamebreaking because they do the lowest dps in similar gear/skill to other dps , but since bard boost mage dps and regens healer mp isnt that bad that is /isnt required in order to raid.

in other games with bigger party yeah u can have buffers (tho devs are removing that overtime) , 20+ u are guarenteed that even 1-2 players are buffers, with 8 slots , 2 taken by tanks 2 by healers....ugh....no way

Buffers are and always will be the least played role (ask any EQ/Eq2/FFXI player) , why is that? because u arent tanking anything or healing any wounds or casting nuke spells , meleeing with a badass weapon , u are on the sides looking pretty , u make every1 around better but thats it.

[DoubleT]

(ask any EQ/Eq2/FFXI player)

uh, in every pt i was ever in xi, be it xp or endgame, there was almost always at least either a brd, cor, and/or rdm, an usually a combination of 2/3 of those. I had a cor, an my wife had a rdm an a brd, an we were constantly dragged along on everything even if we didnt want to go lol

[Warlyx]

uh, in every pt i was ever in xi, be it xp or endgame, there was almost always at least either a brd, cor, and/or rdm, an usually a combination of 2/3 of those. I had a cor, an my wife had a rdm an a brd, an we were constantly dragged along on everything even if we didnt want to go lol

u are agreeing with me, no1 wanted to play brd / cor , and was harder to get ppl to play those jobs in endgame content , and every party wanted support jobs because the dmg boosted by brd/cor was just awesome

i remember a poor guy playing bard in endgame he was our only bard ...his "endgame" bosses strat was > join party 1 , sing songs for melees / for mages > debuffs , left party 1 , joined party 2 singed for melees / ranged , get kicked > join party 1 ...

THF had it worse.....stay there > join party at 5% for TH