Bard - too few skills?

[Xieldras]

Been playing bard since the first hour of early access, and it feels really good. You'll get it when you gitgud.
Bard is a pretty busy job, add all the songs' 20% procs and you get a 60~100% everytime, constantly needing to spam the proc'd buttons. It's completely fine as it is.

"Get good" is such a weak argument. The reality is Bard had abilities removed despite not suffering from Button Bloat like the rest of the classes. Our Role Actions are still terrible and mostly useless, and now with the removal of our Support-styled Role Actions, we have nothing from that section to add to our hotbar.

[Lemuel81]

While I am only 70 on bard, so far feels really good, it is a pretty busy job when you are fully utilizing procs. That being said, really miss foes, MP buffs, and misery end. Straight shot gone will take some time getting used to.

[Bluejay]

So for the first time since release I am going to switch to something else. This class is now boring beyond comprehension. It's like they decided to restructure the class and forgot to add back anything to balance the stuff they took out. Why does my Tank Gun Blade have a better and more interesting DPS rotation than my DPS Bard?

The class has been reduced to mindless mashing buttons on cool down. If you are going to trash the job like this, just unlock macro limitations so we can fully automate the rotation and turn the job into a glorified screen saver.

[MPNZ]

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They totally over-pruned it, and made some really weird decisions on what they pruned (instead of sidewinder) and made... an AOE sidewinder (why).... Oh, and and hopefully arms length will be able to negate Suzaku's songs, but if it can't: the addition will just makes no sense. Head grazes will probably be rare, Bind hasn't been like useful since PVP was introduced, and a single target heavy isn't useful to Physical ranged classes. So, it's just Second wind and peloton as the only useful/practical skills in all types of content. The changes to EA hurt as well in pre-lv 70 content

[Mugear_bahamut]

If you guys like talking few buttons, you should try MCH lol