Holy Effing Bard!!

[Fynlar]

Umm ever heard of a white mage. Goes along the lines of healing. So yeah. Magey enough.

The increase of maximum HP isn't even actually a heal, so even in that case the name is still wildly inaccurate.

Seriously, when you overhaul a skill to the point its name no longer even makes any sense, it ought to be changed.

[Fynlar]

Because we also get this:

So Troubadour will essentially let us buff the song currently in effect.

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Dont forget Battle Voice.

It may not be Crit hit.. but Direct Hit is kinda similar if I recall what Yoshi-P said about it in live letter.

Mage's Ballad: Increases maximum *HP* by 15%

You only just compounded the WTF factor. Again, why not just change Cure into a DoT at this point while leaving the name the same?

[Mature]

Not happy about flaming arrows... Everything else seems neat

[Fynlar]

Is that for real? Like, not shopped?

Because I'm sitting here wondering why the hell it's still called Mage's Ballad if it's not going to do anything... you know, magey.

Why not just take the Cure spell and make it a DoT too, while we're at it?

[Orbiaus]

Not happy with the mch overload. That means having to place turret again. Why not just keep it out and it stopping attack for 30s.

[Pomelo]

Bard is now the most exciting sounding job in the entire game.

[Xlantaa]

I undestand the need of reduce the number of skills and that... but holy shit, that's a very high reduction.

[Yallaid]

Ahh, but we only have Rain of Blood available 1/3 of the time now, only when under Mage's Ballad. Looks like Wanderer's will proc a different kind of super Bloodletter, which is cool though.

I just hope I get to go back to the days of 2 or 3 Bloodletter procs during gcd, that's the feeling that always made BRD shine for me in 2.x, imo

[Malzian]

Ahh, but we only have Rain of Blood available 1/3 of the time now, only when under Mage's Ballad. Looks like Wanderer's will proc a different kind of super Bloodletter, which is cool though.

I just hope I get to go back to the days of 2 or 3 Bloodletter procs during gcd, that's the feeling that always made BRD shine for me in 2.x, imo

Yeah, the procs only occur Mage's Ballad, however in Paeon you get increased damage with fast GCDs and auto attacks as you get Repertoire stacks so your DPS will still increase. Also, Empyreal arrow can be used twice during every song and forces a proc of either a stack, a Bloodletter reset or trigger Perfect Pitch in Minuet. All in all, BRD gets a LOT of DPS boost from these changes.

[Iromi]

I love these changes, it finally should feel like a support class. Only been waiting for this since they took it away since 1.23b!