Quote Originally Posted by Kaoru_Nagisa View Post
I get what you're saying, but the example I provided was something I had happen at least 5 separate times with a WHM and AST (it was never a SCH, if they were low on MP I'd be worried). I tend to watch the healer as far as what they're doing, because you're right, if their own MP regen skill is about to come off CD, popping on Mage's isn't always needed and thus I got in the habit of watching the healer's skill usage whenever I looked up to their MP (I do this a lot, I guess 2 years of having to watch MP made me do it unconsciously).All the times I had a situation like that, with the healer's MP dangerously low, they never had their regens up because they'd already used them once they got down to half MP pool. Thus why I ticked on Mage's for them, because yeah at that point they had no way of their own to regen and if I didn't, the tank had a high potential of dying because they had almost no MP to heal with.


Even then, I still find it baffling when someone is telling me to turn off a song while in non-hardcore content, even if the song is desperately needed by someone in the group. Like, I'm not telling people to turn off CS even when the tank is nearly dying due to them tunnel-visioning into dpsing, I'd appreciate someone not trying to dictate when I should be using my song. I've played Bard for nearly 2 years. I have my timing down to a habit.
I see. I don't wish to tell you how to play, but from my perspective, I cringe when I see Army's Paean and/or Mage's Ballad show up in non-hardcore content. It could be useful for some however, I guess. For me, I know how to manage my own MP and do not require the aid of those songs. As I said, I could be wrong, but I am fairly certain Paean is generally a DPS loss for a team of 4. The biggest exception to this is when I do 14 raises on tentacle boss in Void Ark (true story, and for reference 14 raises = 37k MP and max 13K MP)

I do, sometimes, mention to the bard, "Hey thanks for Ballad, you can turn it off now ". I'll throw this out if they are playing Ballad and I am 50%+ on MP (often more).