RIP Bard

[Meleoffs]

You're a bard yourself. Join in the chorus, you'll feel a lot better to get those frustrations out in the open instead of pretending everything is wonderful. There's only so much saccharine sweetness you can sup before you start feeling ill.

And when you start seeing those brds that actually realize this is a MASSIVE buff doing 700-800 dps, and you're only doing 500 you'll realize how stupid you sound.

[Felessan]

So what "The Wanderer's Minuet" does is give a 20% buff to ablilites eg "Straght Shot" and other but add a buff timer and you cant move, right?

You can move, but not too far. You have 1.5 sec casting time on main abilities (out of 2.5 sec GCD) - its much better than what mages have, but limits unlimited movement bards had before.
Besides 20% straight buff that somewhat offset with loss of autoattack, Minuet also unlocks very powerful abilities that are not usable otherwise - semi-ofcd attack with 240 potency, dots prolongation and the most powerful bard's attack .

[ShizumiNeko]

You can move, but not too far. You have 1.5 sec casting time on main abilities (out of 2.5 sec GCD) - its much better than what mages have, but limits unlimited movement bards had before.
Besides 20% straight buff that somewhat offset with loss of autoattack, Minuet also unlocks very powerful abilities that are not usable otherwise - semi-ofcd attack with 240 potency, dots prolongation and the most powerful bard's attack .

Oh cool ^-^ and can you also use "Hawk's Eye" and "Raging Strikes" along with "The Wanderer's Minuet" to give a even bigger buff in total?

[Nikoshae]

Oh cool ^-^ and can you also use "Hawk's Eye" and "Raging Strikes" along with "The Wanderer's Minuet" to give a even bigger buff in total?

Yeah. Minuet is a song you play to give you a static buff, much like Swiftsong remains until you cancel it. So you can use buffs like Raging Strikes to further your output still.

[ShizumiNeko]

Yeah. Minuet is a song you play to give you a static buff, much like Swiftsong remains until you cancel it. So you can use buffs like Raging Strikes to further your output still.

Is the song best not to use all the time, meaning will it out put lower dps in time due to how long you use it combate compared to the faster combate with the song off / or does it not matter if you used it all the time ?

And if in short bust is it best to use on boses and hard adds?

[RiceisNice]

Is the song best not to use all the time, meaning will it out put lower dps in time due to how long you use it combate compared to the faster combate with the song off / or does it not matter if you used it all the time ?

And if in short bust is it best to use on boses and hard adds?

This is the true for machinist; as soon as you get the skill at 52, it's not exactly feasible to use it even in ideal circumstances. The 20% attack boost does not necessarily make up for the loss of auto attacks. You need the other abilities which are locked behind minuet/barrel to more-than make up for the loss of autos. That is how it currently feels on my machinist.