Bard song "Battle Voice" -- doesnt affect all party members bug?

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Well we do have some upcoming changes possibly coming to Bard in 5.1 (maybe, they did state they were still toying around with Bard changes based on player feedback, and with NIN, SMN and SAM all receiving significant changes and the DPS category as a whole seeing multiple damage balancing I would not be surprised if any Bard changes to it's utility get's pushed back to 5.2), so maybe that change to Battle Voice might be one of them. That being said Battle Voice not affecting the Bard themselves is to me lowest on priority for fixing Bard's lack of.... Bardiness. The only way to fix that is by making their current support skills more impactful, and either bringing back ones they lost or adding new ones.

One can hope.

Definitely a feature. Compare the wording to DRG's Battle Litany which actually specifies self and party members or DNC's Technical Finish which also specifies self and party members. Battle Voice is just party members so it's definitely functioning as intended by not including the BRD itself.

Could also be a legacy skill on bard that they forgot to improve to the same standards as Battle Litany/Technical Finish. Thanks for pointing these out as counterexamples, but still all should probably be equal. If Dancer has it as a fellow ranged physical DPS, then all the more reason Bard should too. A party shouldn't have to run two Bards to get the bonuses for everyone, when, as was mentioned, Monk/Dragoon/Dancer/Ninja/etc give bonuses for everyone.

As the purpose of the game is not to solo content, you shouldn't feel like you've learnt a useless skill ^^
Remember "Raise" sucks for solo content as well But I don't believe any healer is like "erf it sucks for solo content".
Same for Aggro Stance and Taunts for tanks, it's useless in solo content too.

Maybe they don't want to see a Bard singing loudly to be heard only by himself in solo content and would look socially awkward (about RP of course, and don't worry, it's all about numbers, they could allow Battle Voice to work on the Bard itself and lower another skill dmg so the overall DPS designers want it to deal is approximately the same).

lol, well I've Raised a couple random people in open world -- does that count as useful?
Real talk -- I see the res as more of an essential role skill, as does the game from what I've played so far. You've got tank stance for tanks, resurrects for healers, and Peloton out-of-combat swiftness from ranged. The song in question is more of a heavy-duty battle skill, closer to Enkindle, Benediction or other ~180sec cd skill.