WHY ARE YOU PLAYING A BARD IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO SING?!

[Razzle]

I dunno, I find this weird.
Is the rest of your DPS really bad?
In my experience you dont need 30 Holys to kill a group of mobs...

You don't need 30, but you do need more than 2-3. And that's *per group* adding up

[JayCommon]

You're never gonna get it, never gonna get it.

Neeever gonna get it, never gonna get it.

Neeeeeeever gonna get it, oh oh oh ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!










aw snap you meant in game?!

[Kayo]

WHY ARE YOU PLAYING A BARD IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO SING?!

Just because you CAN sing, doesnt mean you SHOULD sing ....

[Razzle]

If Bards don't sing it doesnt mean the WHM will spam Holy until he runs to zero MP, it means he can spam less Holy than he would be able to with Ballad.

Anyway some parties care for holy spams and some dont. Don't see what's the big deal see how your groups want to play and adapt to it... If its a PF claiming SR then its a diff story and you can expect the Bard to do everything in his power to speed things up just like the rest of the party and even if it means to sing songs.

[RyuDragnier]

It's their job to sing songs. As someone earlier said, it's like a healer not using medica in a massive AoE spike damage situation, or a tank not using combos to keep hate. Monitoring a situation as a bard is vital. If, for example, the healers are continuously having to raise people, then it's going to absolutely destroy their MP pool(it shouldn't be happening, but it does). A good bard will watching closely and use ballad..

At the same time, depending on which fight it is, a healer needs to know when to not revive. I was healing Titan HM as a SCH, and 2 DPS kept dying over and over again during the final phase (a DRG and a BLM), so I just stopped reviving them, they weren't surviving even with Galvanize, Sacred Soil, and Stoneskin on them (they couldn't dodge WotL properly), so there was no point.

[Cspr_Answrth]

It's their job to sing songs. As someone earlier said, it's like a healer not using medica in a massive AoE spike damage situation, or a tank not using combos to keep hate. Monitoring a situation as a bard is vital. If, for example, the healers are continuously having to raise people, then it's going to absolutely destroy their MP pool(it shouldn't be happening, but it does). A good bard will watching closely and use ballad..

Sooo, basically what you're saying is - When other people fail to do their jobs correctly (i.e., dying and requiring a raise), Bards have to go out of their way to correct their mistakes.
Got it.

[Tupsi]

Sooo, basically what you're saying is - When other people fail to do their jobs correctly (i.e., dying and requiring a raise), Bards have to go out of their way to correct their mistakes.
Got it.

It's really not that hard to use your support abilities.

[LalaRu]

a healer needs to know when to not revive.

Sorry to correct you, but I think it is more appropriate to say that people needs to know when accept ress. Healer will ress when have the time to do it, and it may happen that is also not the right moment to instantly accept it.

[Velhart]

Some people don't appreciate it when I try to sing.

[Lemuria]

It's really not that hard to use your support abilities.

Hard no, but it does come at a cost. Bard loses 20% damage while using Ballad or Paeon, so that's ultimately costing the party. For prolonged fights, sure, but lets be honest, most basic content is pretty faceroll easy now, and doesn't require bards to sing ballad.

Foe Requiem, on the other hand, is always worth casting when you have a caster. It's just common sense to increase the damage output overall.