Bard Suggestion Idea for AOE

[Sethorus]

Hi everyone,

My suggestion here, when i watched the Live Letter and felt it wasnt addressed was a way to make Bard AoE a bit more interesting than what we currently have.

Because i feel the skill bar is somewhat bloated already and some of us were expecting a Bane type of skill to be added to bard, I'd like to suggest the following passive trait.

"Snake Eater

Shadowbite renews andd appiy your Caustic Bite and Stormbite effects from the main target to all target hit by it.
"

This would allow us to have a more spicy aoe for content on a 60 secs cooldown rather than shadowbite just being that bland button you press every 60 secs in aoe scenarios.


Any feedback on this idea?

Kind regards

[Tulzscha]

I'm new to Bard but I think the reason it can't spread dots is because its songs have a chance to give you a benefit when they tick and if you could multiply the number of dots you have out it would go crazy with those songs. Which would actually be super fun and could be given diminishing returns to balance it.

2 gcds per mob is incredibly slow in FF and SMN lost its dots so anyone looking for that dot spread gameplay has nowhere to go. Might as well give it to Bard.

[Easayia]

when your going pack to pack of mobs you should be applying both dots to as many mobs as possible then activate mages ballad and go to town. The reason why a way to spread dots would not be broken is because we already do this in this way we just have no way to refresh them all so you have to finish the pack sometimes with no dots depending on the size of the pull.

The new skill in the video is also probably an AOE skill and to go with that we have a new follow up to APEX arrow.

[lulunami]

Bane was originally limited to spread to only 4 additional enemies. Later on, they did not limit the amount of enemies but reduced the potency after the first enemy. Perhaps with potential DoT tick procs, they could limit the amount of enemies it could spread to.

[Jirah]

Bane was originally limited to spread to only 4 additional enemies. Later on, they did not limit the amount of enemies but reduced the potency after the first enemy. Perhaps with potential DoT tick procs, they could limit the amount of enemies it could spread to.

This is...actually a fine idea. I’ve said many times we don’t have a bane because they’ll have to compromise our Aoe potency for it and dungeon design as a whole was never intended to be W2W at most you should only spray 3. But a limit such as old school Bane sounds abit better

To the OP, BRD has one of the most fun aoe kits due to how crazy you can get with rain and apex but always has room to be better, but rather than a shallow Bane skill why not a way to reset mobs? Iron jaws but as a aoe, that way the work is still required but upkeeping isn’t a monster chore as you get bloated with soul and stacks

[Lauren]

I'd DREAM for DoT Spreading on BRD :c At least rain of death procs a lot in Mage's Ballad for AoE but AoE just doesn't feel great with Quick Nock.