Bard - they broke my job

[Sessurea]

xD yeah funny.. is blm doing well too ?

Blm is currently the hardest job to play atm. Many blms are rerolling to summoner.

[LLamaPie]

Regardless of using WM at just the start of the fight bards are now Gimped. Every other class got a significant DPS boost that didn't change the core of how the class was played. The problem is even if we keep WM up we're no where near the rest of the DPS classes. I know bard isn't meant to be top DPS but they're so bad right now people are actually refusing to take bards into DPS checks like Bismarck EX. I have a few questions for SE.

1) Why kill bard's mobility?
2) WHY remove our auto attack potential in both the Barage nerf and WM?
3) Why does Bard damage scale so poorly with new gear?

A few things I can think to fix it. If they really want us as a turret they need to buff several things. Make WM an instant cast, allow it to have auto attacks again and buff the damage bonus of WM to at least 30%. The auto attack addition is the biggest thing they need to put back.

[LLamaPie]

Blm is currently the hardest job to play atm. Many blms are rerolling to summoner.

I would prefer Bard just being hard, not sucking ass. Lucky BLMs.

[SasakiNori]

Dev's are aware of the issues people have with WM and WP. (What a suprise)

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...45#post3089145

[Sessurea]

Dev's are aware of the issues people have with WM and WP. (What a suprise)

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...45#post3089145

bloodletter got fixed my friend said

[Lewtskie]

xD yeah funny.. is blm doing well too ?

It's got some damn heavy wrinkles post-expansion just like Bard. I'd say given a few patches things might iron out well, but even still Summoner got ripped with HW. So you can't go wrong there.

[xClaves]

Blm is currently the hardest job to play atm. Many blms are rerolling to summoner.

hard because the rotation is too hard ? and deal the same amount of damage like smn ?

[SasakiNori]

bloodletter got fixed my friend said

Yup, it did.

[yamochan]

snip -

wow at least a tiny step up a big big mountain of crap ^^

so here is the what the dev post says basicly:
Wanderer's Minuet:
Development team is aware of the following:
Generally, DPS is larger when not under Minuet.
Bards' specialty of "Ability to attack while moving" is impacted when under Minuet, hard to see benefits of being in Minuet.
Unwieldy to change stances.

Due to the degree to which the above points are felt by the community, especially the first point (Less damage in Minuet), the development team is looking into changes.

They're looking to change the effect (but not increase damage too much), make it easier to switch between stances, and reduce the difficulty and general clunkiness with the current Bard.

Warden's Paean:
Generally treated as hard to use/low value, development team is looking into it.

Bloodletter Bug:
Fixed in hotfix.

Also a bit about waiting for player feedback from Alexander before committing any further changes

Black Mage changes when/where?

[Sessurea]

hard because the rotation is too hard ? and deal the same amount of damage like smn ?

Rotation is becoming such an obsolete word these days....anyways blms have to maintain enohian and astral fire/umbral ice. it looks absolutely head wrecking. Yh smn OP atm , go jump ship.