Bards - Help me understand

[Aiselia]

According to certain other DPS classes here, we're support, not DPS, and our DPS doesn't matter and nobody's counting on us to do the damage, so if we don't like it, we can just turn it off.

I suppose you could also ask them why they tell us that.

[Ranen]

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It's possible that there's no other class that they enjoy. In my case I just got Ninja to 60, and while I like that class the mudra lag is a complete loss of dps for me and therefore renders it unplayable, and there goes the only melee class I enjoy.

I tend to prefer being ranged anyway..and well the only ranged are all casters...and I dislike those...so I'm pretty much stuck with bard or MCH (and not a fan). I'm still gonna try SMN and see how that goes, but until then I'm stuck with the new Bard....yayyy.

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Lol I'd love to find out why they say that, cause clearly they don't understand how frustrating it is to be lvl 60 and only able to use 1 ability from the 50-60 range outside of WM. We might as well just remain lvl 50 and be done with it. xD

Black "standing still and using Enochian to blow shit up with really long cast times just fine" Mage says hi.

Except that BLMs/SMN/Healers all chose that class knowing what they were getting into..and that is cast times. Bards were advertised as a class with mobility and now it's pretty much taken away. And saying we don't have to use it..well see above point.

Anyway this isn't really a thread for that...but meh. It's here to stay and slowly but surely I'll get used to it and those that are intent on playing the class will have to do the same. Sad thing is being out of WM isn't an option if we want to progress in the game, be it the EX primals, and even savage alex..I just hope SE finds some way to work out the kinks.