Patch Notes Up

[kyuven]

Its resource management, as has been stated many times before. TP-based DPS get Goad or Paeon. Very rarely will Ballad be played in Coil situations, but one of those 2 TP abilities will always be given.

Well, Ballad DOES get played, but usually for the healers, not the summoner.
A good bard can make a summoner shine like a newborn star...at the cost of shaving 20% off his/her own DPS.

[Itseotle]

Well, Ballad DOES get played, but usually for the healers, not the summoner.
A good bard can make a summoner shine like a newborn star...at the cost of shaving 20% off his/her own DPS.

Yes, exactly. Ballad usually only gets played in situations where either A) The BRD cannot DPS, such as during Flames phase on T12, or B) The healers are almost depleted. Typically scenario B doesn't happen unless mistakes are made, and A is fight specific. Paeon on the other hand will always be played if there is no Goad available and the BRD or other Melee DPS is out of TP.

I'm curious as to what is being dat-mined when the patch isn't even ready for download yet.

It was mined from the last patch.