RIP MCH

[Underdog2204]

I can't help but feel they have backed themselves into a corner with BRD+MCH. They have made them both too similar whilst also making them offer something different each.

Now compare this to a SMN and BLM, they both do something different like BLM having great single target but has more cast times and SMN excelling in AoE and being more mobile. Both are interchangable but that would not be down simply to which one pulls higher numbers over the course of a fight unless one is made totally useless.

MCH and BRD seem to have to pull the same numbers because if they don't the other gets left out as they are both a battery and either way someone is going to get a damage increase.

[TankHunter678]

So random thought:

Wanderer's Minuet does not make sense for BRD because BRD is supposed to be mobile. What if it was changed so that instead of granting extra damage at the cost of cast time (and no auto) it made BRD songs apply a debuff effect to enemies instead of a buff to allies and vice versa?

Just throwing ideas out but Mage's Ballad would change to debuff enemies Magic Damage output, Army's Paeon would debuff their physical damage, Foe Reqium instead of debuffing enemy magic resistance increases the rate the LB gauge fills for allies.

[Linadae]

So random thought:

Wanderer's Minuet does not make sense for BRD because BRD is supposed to be mobile. What if it was changed so that instead of granting extra damage at the cost of cast time (and no auto) it made BRD songs apply a debuff effect to enemies instead of a buff to allies and vice versa?

Just throwing ideas out but Mage's Ballad would change to debuff enemies Magic Damage output, Army's Paeon would debuff their physical damage, Foe Reqium instead of debuffing enemy magic resistance increases the rate the LB gauge fills for allies.

I would approve of this. That would make WM feel like it fit the theme of the class better, than a tacked on mechanic stolen from another job because the devs figured no one would play MCH if bard didn't have their own version of the GB

[ChocoFeru]

MCH for Melee setups, BRD for caster setups.

They didn't really buff BRD, SE just balanced him.