Quote Originally Posted by Kaurie View Post
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).
I understand, and frankly I admit I don't watch Scholar's MP as much as the other healers, because frankly you guys have insane MP management (I know from experience of playing one myself, it's my favorite healer!). Most of the time I try to play Mage's if the healer is way below half on their pool, and a little less than half during more erratic content like Void Ark (ESPECIALLY on Chulainn, that boss can be a nightmare for healers). I rarely use Army's unless multiple melee dps in the group are super low on TP, or the tank is super low on it - most of the time it's rarely needed, seeing as ninjas can goad people, dragoons have Invig, etc. Honestly my primary song usage tends to be Foe's or Mage's.

And well, I usually try to pop a few of my damage cooldowns for when I have to drop into a song that cuts my damage. It won't entirely make up for it even while paired with WP, but it helps. Always feels kind of fun when I see a near 2k crit on Emp Arrow while I'm dropped in Mage's with just WP and some cooldowns going to make up for the hit I take.