Thread: 3.2 Patch Notes

Originally Posted by Kaoru_Nagisa

What boggles me is when the healer themselves, with only 500 mp left, are telling me to turn off Ballad because it's cutting my dps. Friend, I know that - I don't care, I'd rather my dps go to crap for a few seconds than have the tank die because you can't even get off a heal due to no MP.

Like I'm sorry, but my job is a hybrid support. I'm gonna support when it's needed, and I've played the class for 2 years so I feel like I can fairly well judge when I need to drop into a song and deal with a little bit of dps cut.

Originally Posted by Kaoru_Nagisa

It's baffling how many people don't want Bards to play their class properly.

....u arent a hybrid , because HYBRIDS dont exist in FFXIV , u are labeled as DPS , and if u dont dps to the max when u should be dpsing (burning adds , burst phases) , u arent helping your party , and if a healer is at 500 mp and tells u to stop is because the CD to regain MP (Shroud of Saints , atherflow ...) is almost ready.

in the whole 3.0 i casted ballad, almost never usually when learning a encounter and healers go all out to keep pushing phases, but for normal/farm content ....uhmm....in A4s , and A1s when bosses jump (not for healers here SMN and DRK mostly )...a3s sometimes if the whm overhealed but 90% of the time is has been Foe , Paeon rarely , but i raid with nin.

im not topping the meters , because the job is unable to do so by design , but im not dragging my party down singing a song that isnt needed in the 1 place...or ignoring that im dps , and that as brd we have CDs for spike dmg that u should use when needed (chained toguether and u reach really good dmg) , and of course songs. But 3.0 has been a dps race/check.

is like saying that nin arent DPS because goad , trick attack , shadewalker , smoke screen....yeah all the jobs have some kind of utility , that doesnt make this jobs "hybrids".

SE doesnt help at all adding dispel to BRD...1 step forward and 2 steps back with this job. Mch getting a +10% physical "song" now...is the cherry on top.