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    RiceisNice's Avatar
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    Flo Fyloord
    World
    Famfrit
    Main Class
    Machinist Lv 80
    Quote Originally Posted by Maero View Post
    , people are still bringing up comparisons between Bard and black mage but have absolutely NO experience with it.
    Play both classes people and then comment as you guys are clueless.
    BLM and BRDs are only comparable in the sense that they both have the same restrictions from cast times, that BLM can't catch their firestarter procs immediately...to an extent since they can oGCD/thundercloud weave to register the proc faster, nor do they ever hardcast fire III in astral to waste that proc. BRDs have SS as a regular part of their rotation, on top of an oGCD that resets.

    Movement...not so much considering it didn't even stop BLMs from topping bards in 2.0, let alone now. It gets into a deeper mess when you consider what the reason was for BRD's lower damage output back then, where the developers themselves dance between the mobility or support aspect. Shorter cast times or not, it's still some resemblance of movement getting into your dps rotation, but honestly that has never seem to be that big of an issue now or before, for both classes.
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    Last edited by RiceisNice; 09-29-2015 at 10:01 PM.