Perform: what are your initial thoughts?

[Awha]

It is awesome, I just hope SE is not forced to remove it for whatever reason. We all know how japan is when it comes to copyright issues.

[ElazulHP]

One good side note of this is i'm finally being forced to learn how to read sheet music lol...

[Shouko]

What I would like would be for us to be able to use our Orchestrion List and just have our bard play songs from that for those of us with no musical talent.

Only if it doesn't bleed out into the rest of the game, aka it can only be heard client side or by checking an option to hear other players orchestrion roles. It would be too annoying otherwise, having hundreds of people playing different roles at once when afk or idling in town.

[ElazulHP]

Is it possible to macro songs?

[Granyala]

Is it possible to macro songs?

Nope, good thing too, or the spam would be unbearable.

[Ashewalker]

Here is a new one, enjoy^^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylFy7LYbTjk

[Mimilu]

It okay...
Not anything I really wanted, nor do I think I'm really going Preform all that much...

I feel like there are a few flaws that need to be addressed to make it easier/funner for people who do/would enjoy it:
-You have to manually assign notes to your hotbar. This is really annoying especially if you actually play BRD at all, double if you use a controller. They really should of made something like a "Preform Mode" that changes all your hotbars but lets you keep them separate from your actual hotbars.
-You can't macro songs. I know that they couldn't implement this due to macro-issues but it still would have been nice if they could have found a way to implement this... (It also kind of highlights issues with the macro-system but you know...)
-There's no way to single into one person's performance when in a crowded area. It would be nice for crowded areas or when people try to ruin/upstage someone else's show. Like, you could just select them and then you can't hear anyone else's performance.
-There's no way to turn off performances for those who don't want to hear it. A lot of times, people turn off the game's music so they can listen to their own and they might not want to hear a bunch of people strum their instruments. Or there are those who just might not want to hear it, especially if multiple people are playing in an area.
-You can't play chords/multiple notes.

[Granyala]

-You can't play chords/multiple notes.

Eeh yeah sure, chords...
Next stop: make it MIDI compatible.

[TerminatorTM]

There's a post in the User Interface forum introducing how to use combat "classes" hotbars to store the perform actions and using a macro to swap them in/out on your BRD. It works perfectly.

And what to do if i have no unused classes? Still - this post is just a workaround and not like hard solution.

[KingMeteo]

It's really fun!!!!