Dear All Bards,

[NyarukoW]

Don't put the bard in danger, Foe's only good when they are close to the target. They are better off reserving that MP for ballad for the healers to res all the dead players over and over. The WHM and SMN players really do appreciate the ballads.

[Nestama]

Don't put the bard in danger, Foe's only good when they are close to the target. They are better off reserving that MP for ballad for the healers to res all the dead players over and over. The WHM and SMN players really do appreciate the ballads.

They don't need to be hugging the mob, they just need to be within "healing range" of the mob. If a healer can survive being near a mob so they can still heal a tank, then a BRD should be just fine (hell, Repelling Shot requires a BRD to be near the mob).

Anyway, I main Black Mage and not Bard, but when I did play Bard, I would always use Foe Requiem because party efficiency > personal DPS. In CT raids, I'll use it for trash mobs and bosses (though turn it off if another BRD is using it), in Light Party dungeons, I'll use it if the tank is doing big pulls. I'll even use Battle Voice if there's up to 10+ mobs.

In Final Coil content, I've found myself using Apocatastasis more often than before, though I reserve it only for the WAR (Imdugud's charge -that is magic damage, as Manaward mitigates it- and Phoenix's Revelation).