The harp is a lie.

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By being excited for Barcher, I also harbor a good many expectations. I suppose in the end the whole "harp is a lie" debate was more of a debate of hope vs doubt.[/COLOR]

Ditto. I'm moving this over because I think it fits the direction this conversation has gone on, as well. If they do this wrong, it'll be a clusterf**k, but there is a chance it'll be done effectively so that Archer has more responsibilities than just "Don't take hate" and actually gets the minstrel into some combat as opposed to playing a job as simple as casting songs that, unless they want you to pull, can be botted without anybody even noticing.

Both jobs needed some more shit to do, imho. Anyway -

Hypothetical Endgame Battle:

Battle starts, barcher knocks an arrow, but casts haste buffs because he's not an idiot that needs to be told that his attacks take hate way too godsdamned fast to be doing any damage yet. While the other members use their haste to get their first round of true buffs in place... - barcher knocks another arrow. Waits.

The party is ready, barcher hits the attack and accuracy songs, and the tank calls that hate is secure - barcher EXPLODES out of the gate with three arrows to the mobs back and starts building TP while the rest of the party begins the grind.

Repeat?