Anyone have bard as main?

[Sylvain]

I noticed they all had a 30 second timer, do you think that timer is now a solid 30 seconds or do you think it is based off of the Bards current MP?

Things like E. Arrow could go from "only while under minuet" to using the charges.

Foes and The Warden's Paean I would like to know more about.

Well, for the 30sec duration I can't answer you as we've never seen the action bar while he was changing song. At this point no matter what I "believe" would be the case is very personal and purely based on what I would expect them to do.


First, It shouldn't be based on the Bard current mp as each time he changes to a new song, the new song has 30sec. Which suggest that 30sec is the default basic duration.
Now, do the song have cooldown? Hard if not impossible to say.
Maybe their cooldown is related to the time you used the song.
For instance, you used the song 10sec, then it has a 10sec cd. You used 30sec, it has a 30sec cd. (very unlikely tho)

The 3 song are
Wanderer Minuet: DPS
Mage Ballad: MP recovery
Army's Paeon: TP recovery

Now, army's paeon is interesting because it currently recover TP. But in the video there is a musical note ressource which isn't there for the Mage Ballad.
This highly suggest that army's Paeon and Mage Ballad have now different roles and different mechanic tied to them, one only requiring time (and probly mana) and the other one having a stacking ressource.

Now, what this ressource does is up to one's guess.

We see the Bard consumming an arrow when he cast his super laser arrow stuff. So we can safely guess that Minuet is still the dps song that you'll need to activate to do some of your highest pewpew.

Concerning Foe and Paean, they seem to be gone. (Foe at least)
But again, SE has reworked A LOT of skill and merged many together.
With the removal of Esuna as "basic skill" from healers, maybe Paean will also be reworked or removed.