Bard still seems really good (and media tour info seems incomplete and will change)

[Mononoke_Hime]

I haven't lvl'd my bard yet but I've mained it since 2.0, this time I decided to run gnb but that's besides the point, anyway....

I did try out a rotation on a striking dummy to see how it felt even though it's still 70 and the only thing I have an issue with is the emp arrow CD. If it was just a little less than 15 sec it would feel alright but that 15 sec cd doesnt sit well with me since songs are 30 secs and you would usually use it right when you transition songs and around the 17-15 sec mark on the song, but with the cd it makes you wait till the 15-13 mark pushing it further away so you might only use it once for a song which I guess doesnt matter since the third song would be army's.

Sorry if I don't make sense, I'm not a theory crafter or anything. I honestly wish they didn't make it an ability and left it as a ws that didn't share a cd with anything but obviously would have a shorter cd depending on your ss.

[MPNZ]

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This worries me. They really need to just spend some time moving a number of every job's actions & traits into the earlier levels, and really should have been started like 2 years ago or so. And everything feels like they over-pruned everything as well as likea ton of unecessary decisions like with Emperean Arrow, or the parry nerf, or just going way overboard with AST cards, and the latter feels like they didn't want players not to like mull over decisions, but it's now like a 30 second distraction, which is totally self-defeating...

Mg-grrgrrrgrr,

[SaitoHikari]

This worries me. They really need to just spend some time moving a number of every job's actions & traits into the earlier levels, and really should have been started like 2 years ago or so. And everything feels like they over-pruned everything as well as likea ton of unecessary decisions like with Emperean Arrow, or the parry nerf, or just going way overboard with AST cards, and the latter feels like they didn't want players not to like mull over decisions, but it's now like a 30 second distraction, which is totally self-defeating...

Mg-grrgrrrgrr,

Well, I think the new Bard is still pretty good, in all honesty. The pace picks back up again later, but the earlier levels suffered hard for it.

I just barely noticed that at level 60, song proc rates got stabbed. As in, repertoire proc rates for some godawful reason are fixed at 20% in level 60 and below content, when they were on average roughly 30-40% synced down with crit scaling before. Like, why?

[Suniva]

Been happily singing for my party mates since 2.0. This is the first xpack that I have leveled another class to 80 first. Bard, to me, is a supportive role that can dps. Because of that, I understood that a skilled bard wasn't going to bring the same amount of dps a skilled samurai and/or dragoon where capable of bringing, and I was okay with that. While I do love and am profoundly happy with the QoL changes in regards to how procs work and that popping barrage allows me to immediately cast my refulgent, it feels like that in order to get these changes, we had to give up our entire supportive kit, and that, I am the most disheartened about.