BRD End Walker Changes - Did they really explain it all?

[Easayia]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCVcgZ8dtD0 7:14 - 7:58

Well We just got what our changes are visually. Overall I'm not that upset and it does look like we received some type of buffing skill, an AOE, and possibly a way to spread dots possibly.

1. If you watch the video you will see a new gauge and when we play all 3 songs we are able to activate a note that spins around us and possibly the party. This does look like a party buff of some kind maybe it even applies all our buffs at once from every song for a short time? ( I'm happy they are giving our songs something they are working towards.)

2. We got a spread shot, my assumption is this is replacing quick knock as our AOE skill.

3. After APEX arrow we have another skill that combos with it with luck this spreads our dots which wouldn't be the end of the world since when AOEing mobs we build up that gauge and fire off apex arrow. If it doesn't spread dots well maybe its potency is worth it.. ( stay hopeful with this one).

I'm happy the kit remained mostly the same and got added to.


I feel like not only with bard but many jobs they left out a lot of changes when they put it on a page. Obviously the jobs with the most changes got the most screen time.

[Musika]

Nothing was explained for BRD, all we got as the action trailer showing off some new flashy skills and a vague "explanation" about the new mechanic.
I wouldn't get your hopes up for anything like a DoT spread considering it's something a good amount of BRD players have been asking about getting for a while now.
I'm fully aware how jaded or bitter it comes across as but we don't do as much damage as MCH and DNC was given pretty much all our support, it feels like they don't know what to do with the class at all anymore.

[Remish]

I'm pretty meh that all we seem to have is a party buff (That they confirmed will not apply to self) and a combo off of Apex Arrow of all things. I really hope they go into detail further but currently I'm more excited by the 45 second song durations than anything else they showed.

[Shironeko_Narunyan]

They explicitly said they're still working on the Bard. Maybe it's a bit too early to judge the changes just yet.

[Jirah]

They said the 3 songs will have a shared buff which sounds like old school troubadour to me, which isn’t the same as the big song it got. Idc about Dot spreaders as I’ve said before 2 is enough. I’m more concerned of the pointlessness of A skill that is executed after apex, with no soul control in sight...

Still changes are minor and as long as nothing vital happened and it’s expanded upon further, Ill be happy, and happier to see them acknowledge the jobs songstress roots rather than acknowledging the idiots saying “too hard plz break its knees”

out of the 3 Ranged BRD seems to be the one im looking forward too, not crazy about Florushing sharing which dums down a pretty dum job so En avanting isn’t so organic anymore trying to do aoes close up than en avant- away. And MCH stagnates to oblivion to the point of embarrassment

[Easayia]

? two is not enough for having to AOE down mobs. The anoying part about current bard is while the tank gathers mobs you need to tab to each mob and apply both dots so you have as much uptime with your song abilities as possible when killing them off. We want a dot spreader so we could just apply dots to 1 mob then trigger an AOE that spreads the dots so we dont need to do that anymore. Its the only job that needs to do this. the 3 song buff is a party buff we just dont know what it does yet and will probably not know till either launch or closer to launch.

[Jirah]

? two is not enough for having to AOE down mobs. The anoying part about current bard is while the tank gathers mobs you need to tab to each mob and apply both dots so you have as much uptime with your song abilities as possible when killing them off. We want a dot spreader so we could just apply dots to 1 mob then trigger an AOE that spreads the dots so we dont need to do that anymore. Its the only job that needs to do this. the 3 song buff is a party buff we just dont know what it does yet and will probably not know till either launch or closer to launch.

So I’ve been so numb to the request because; A it only applies to dungeons and very few add phases, and B you don’t “Need” to put 2 dots on every mob. Granted if you put the work in you’ll end up spamming the crap out of Apex which is pretty awesome, but all you need is 2 maybe 3

They work on Old dungeon philosophy of keeping mobs on minimum, since dungeons are so easy that you can W2W them, they’d probably die before you reap any procs or soul. The Kit never intended for so many mobs to be present but at the same time they shouldn’t die so quickly so technically you can just as easily get away with spamming Nook and Rain. If any suggestion is clear BRD would benefit from a Aoe Iron jaws. The work is still required to put dots up and now it’s easier to upkeep. That would be my 2 cents about it but it’s all just moot as dungeons don’t need that much attention.