Thread: 3.2 Patch Notes

Originally Posted by Andrea

I understand you know how to play your class. I also like that you have admitted to playing songs without the need to be asked for them as I believe every bard should be.

However couldn't your claim of I know how best to play my own class be used against you? Wouldn't the healer know when they needed MP more than you would know?

Usually if a healer does tell me to turn it off after a reasonable amount of time has passed, I assume they'll be fine and/or their own regens are back up (particularly with SCH). It's only when they're almost completely depleted of MP that I kind of ??? at them for telling me to turn Ballad off just because of the slight hit to my dps (after I've already turned on cooldowns and have Battle Voice up so that the regen goes faster and thus lets me drop it quicker). At that point it makes little sense to me as both a bard and as someone who's played a healer and knows each healer's mana regen abilities and how long they take to act.

Basically if someone is telling me to turn it off when their MP is in a reasonable or manageable state, I will. If their MP is almost gone and I literally just turned on Ballad and popped cooldowns and their MP is still too low for comfort, that's when I don't because to me, it feels like a bad idea. I know how to play my class, but I can't always say the same for others - is the gist of it.

Originally Posted by Warlyx

think about for a min a party of tank , melee , bard (you) , healer , boss fight , why you would cast MP song here? u are losing 15% dmg because that , wouldnt be better if u cast FOE so the healers does more dmg? and u lose nothing casting foe (+BV), if the healers runs out of MP for nuking is the damn healer fault , no1 can blame a bard on that....

.... If the healer is prioritizing dpsing over healing the tank, I'm not going to give them Foe's. Half the time I never have Foe's up in a group with no mages because I'm there assuming the healer will primarily focus on their main job - which is healing. Just as I primarily focus on my main job, which is dpsing - until such a time as I need to use one of my support skills to assist someone (usually the healer) with regenerative abilities.

I'd be casting MP song so the healer has enough MP to actually heal the tank, rather than encouraging them to keep dpsing and ignoring the tank's health by having Foe's up.

And once again, I can easily make up for the hit a Ballad takes on my damage by popping cooldowns when I have to drop into it. Most of the time I rarely have to keep Ballad up for more than a few seconds before the healer's good on MP and I can turn it off and return to doing my highest output.