Thread: "Serious" Bard 6.0 predicted/suggested kit

Oh, definitely. Fun is definitely a thing they should re-implement into the jobs, and the Single target AA is definitely and obvious pattern

Personal wishlist:

-Blood letter: Give it three to four charges with an upgrade at level 50 that would change the animation into an Aether-missile (to make it look more magical and cut down animation lock outs and BL/RoD resets issues) with a visual on the character model to keep track of charges (only visible when engaged). It may share charges with Paen and Minne

-Paen: Give it a circle Aoe radius and a much shorter recast timer

-Minne: Peloton AOE radius and increases the potency and critical chance of Healing and shield spells

Mages ballad: The ability to restore mp through BL/RoD

-Interlude: A seven to 10 second timer that would activate between songs To help prevent dropping the song buff, and allow song effect to be extended. Music has an effect on ppl even after the music stops

-Song gauge: This should really just like be a resource that players to think over how it should be used or a just a fever gauge that improves the song buff by 2% every rank up in battle. Or make both...

-Return foies requiem. It could be used with a fever gauge like system. I still have it on my hotbar since it's way more useful that Bind since like PVP

-Shadow bite: AOE poison or replicates Wind and poison bite effects from one target to all affected targets and resets the dot timers

-non-dmg status effect to be useful in combat

-Side winder: Add interupt to its effects or prune it

-Using MP as a resource again but not so annoying and off-putting like it was in 2.0-3.0

-Apex Arrow: Just make it have a set numerical cost besides something like "all"

-an ability that haves the cooldown timers on song for optimizers

-Armies paen: One Haste should not be a negative, two increase the Haste buff timer to 45 seconds

-Barrage: Make it so that it would make ea hit three times as well and each hit to count as a Bl reset/ PP stack/ paen note. RA would still hit three times. It would just affect those two actions

Originally Posted by gumas

my major complain as brd at level max is that there is just too many things to watch for. buff & debuff timer, proc skill, song timer, soul voice, skill CD, etc

all in the middle of enemy attack, mechanic and telegraph red markings. 70% of my play as BRD is just looking at my hotbar lol

yoshi really need to trim down the BRD playstyle a bit.

this is the most non issue issue ive ever heard, once upon a time in 4.0 BRD was considered easy. Now with MCH lobotomized and DNC being hella safe with large margins for errors have spoiled you to think BRD is "too hard" "too many things to look for"

I repeat since so far the devs are on a crusade to make all the jobs easy and simple while robbing their quirks and identity, we do NOT need more easy ass jobs a BRD lobotomy is the very last thing we need practice or play pokemon this myth that all jobs need the broadest appeal is super damaging to the gamplay like what they done to healers and homogenized tanks

Originally Posted by gumas

i did not said easy ass jobs allright? i only said to trim down the "many things to watch for" for BRD class.

okay maybe trim down is wrong, because some people probably think "trim down" mean making BRD as brain dead job, so iam going to change it. i want to make it much easier to maintain.

to be specific, i just want to point to venom and wind bite, i blame hud/ui for this actually, venom and wind bite icon should be moveable not just "stick" on enemy hp bar for example, i always wish i can move it closer to where most my eyes focus on (hotbar or close to the center of screen) or even better if i can make the icon bigger or start blinking when the timer is below 10 seconds or so.

just by doing this will make things way easier for me, because that mean i dont need to look at enemy hp bar anymore just to check if my "bite" still in effect or not.

ohh much better i like this idea alot, making OUR own dots more visual would help me in Raids or trials with 4 freaking Bards so i dont iron jaws thinking "huh why arent i getting procs" or maybe a visual gauge?

You can move the debuffs separately from the enemy HP bar. You can't pull out exactly CB/SB and nothing else, but you can put the debuff bar wherever, and many Bards do.

example: https://i.imgur.com/bR7uYvj.png

Originally Posted by Cetonis

You can move the debuffs separately from the enemy HP bar. You can't pull out exactly CB/SB and nothing else, but you can put the debuff bar wherever, and many Bards do.

example: https://i.imgur.com/bR7uYvj.png

The issue with this is that you have important things to consider:

You need to disable the view of other players' debuffs which means you can no longer see when TA/CS are up. It won't display well otherwise and will become just as flooded. Without party chat notices or something your DPS will suffer.

It also needs to fit every job UI unless you want to save UI profiles and swap to them every time you change jobs. I tried this once and it interfered with some of my other job gauges which were placed exactly where I wanted them. And then when I did get something to work, the previous point came into play.

Additionally, it doesn't really help with AoE situations since it only tracks your target. This alone is why there can't really be a gauge to track unfortunately.

I think it might be ideal to just give IJ a 25s cooldown or so and maybe have it spread the DoTs like Bane with 50% potency or something. It would signal to the player that it's time to renew their DoTs and would work well in most situations except when there are only 2 targets (especially if they need to be separated). I can't envision any other easy way to keep track of DoTs especially via job gauges.