Bard and TP management

[RinchanNau]

It is mathematically not worth using Paeon if only you are low on TP.

[Aikaal]

Mmmm, I have 441 Skill Speed. I forced myself to get Rosenbogen. I was hoping to get HA before but it never dropped for me lol. I'm a main BLM right now. I want to improve my second job which is Bard. I'll take account of everybody's comment :3 I know there's down time. I,m jsut slightly scared of long fights like T8.

[RinchanNau]

Mmmm, I have 441 Skill Speed. I forced myself to get Rosenbogen. I was hoping to get HA before but it never dropped for me lol. I'm a main BLM right now. I want to improve my second job which is Bard. I'll take account of everybody's comment :3 I know there's down time. I,m jsut slightly scared of long fights like T8.

RNG.... I've been waiting over 3 months for a HA bow. And the t7 mask. Switched to SMN main for a while, but I'm back on BRD as of this week except for t7 kiting. SMN is so much better for kiting.

[Aikaal]

XD My group got 3 bows in 5 kills. Then the one week it dropped, I was in the States and couldn't raid. I'm confident one day I'll get it.

[Ooshima]

RNG.... I've been waiting over 3 months for a HA bow. And the t7 mask. Switched to SMN main for a while, but I'm back on BRD as of this week except for t7 kiting. SMN is so much better for kiting.

Cos Miasma >>> Shadowbind

Welcome back to BRD... and let's hope we get our HA bow, someday. LOL.

[Ejell]

Just tell us how much Skill Speed your BRD has, it'll help!
You can try to not refresh your 3 "buffs" ("straight shot" and the dots) before they fade-off, but just after (timer at 1 or less), you'll earn 10 PT each time you do this trick.
You can also input "pauses" in your rotation to make your regeneration better, for example your dots fade in 2 seconds, wait 1 sec then refresh them, it's not a very dps loss, but it'll help your tp-managing for sure.

Remeber that only t8 requires a tp management (maybe t7 if you dont kite too) so it's not very important.

[ruskie]

Ugh I feel the pain of TP depletion. Hit it often with high skillspeed. I'm now sitting on a nice comfy 404 of it and can pace just about right. But with the rosenbogen ugh... first 2 minutes of t5 I was below 50%.

[Maero]

Not sure if it would help you any but you can use a macro
/macroicon "Ability Name"
macroicon will display cooldown time
I rarely if ever use macros but this seemed like one that may be useful
Invigorate i more or less use the same timing of when i play as dragoon.
Timing is crucial, and yeah longer fights for sure are harder to try and keep up tp

[Cspr_Answrth]

You'll rarely need to keep 5 minute uptime on any fight. Most of the large fights (primals or coils) have breaks in them where your TP is going to regenerate.
I think T8 is one of the only exceptions to this, and you'll need to use Paeon for the entire party, not just yourself.
4 minutes is pretty modest before being TP starved, Once you get high enough in level where you have a decent skill speed, you're going to notice yourself burning through TP fast... it is what it is. Invigorate helps a bit, but isn't going to last forever.

[Aikaal]

I did some research and looked with other bards. I don't seem to have TP management issue. I feel I was tricked to make a 5 minutes parser which I do great damage for the gear I have but it drops when I either TP out at 4mins or Army's Peon to continue. I'm iLevel 106 with Rosenbogen and I,m missing about 5-6 BiS so lol