BRD Rework in Final Endwalker Patch Notes!

[Jirah]

Oh yes it was only those players. Yep. Not at all career Bard mains who've been playing since 2.0 through all the rough spots of Heavensward and Shadowbringers, and just wanted to see the job improve. Nah it was just those guys.

Come on dude you make good arguments on here quite often, don't go around acting like your opinion is the only informed one.

my bad im just severly bitter about these changes . all i ever anted was the jobs i loved to improve and advance thier themes to thier zenith not water it down and devoid them toa homgenized pile of mush to appeal to everyone and thier chidlren. Im ripe with emotion right now so my logic is severed to a extent. I refuse to let another main die like i did with MCH

[Rika007]

So one nice positive out of the procs being based on the song itself that I've noticed while playing, you actually get a slight benefit out of downtime now, as the soul gauge can keep filling even when there is no target to hit, and with the extra length to the songs, this means there is often times during a transition or time between trash pack pulls that your next Apex Arrow will be pretty well built up by the time you go into it. While I don't doubt you wouldn't want to throw out your Wanderers minuet song out when a transition is only a few seconds away, it is nice to have something building up in the downtime.

Don't think it makes up for me anyway the loss of how good AoE felt under the dots based procs system, but its definitely a nice feeling watching that gauge grow so consistently.

[MegaFire]

Man guys, I just want our DoT procs back. The media tour Bard looked so good, I miss the feeling of making snap decisions due to procs. I really don't want our class to become too static! I think it really messes with the fact that we could have been AoE king! We already do pretty low single target damage. I honestly really like a lot of the changes we have, but if they need to lower the pot of BL and just give us double dot procs back that would be a-okay with me! I see a lot of the changes seem to be very last minute because even Barrage doesn't make SB ready and things like Pitch Perfect being on an almost instant cooldown even though it's not really possible to get a triple charge of PP with the new 80% server tick system even with RA.

I think giving us more things coming up with that DoT randomness made the class feel really dynamic and it was really fun having that thought process of "oh do I hold this Apex to line up with RS? Do I wait a GCD for my Sidewinder to get a raid-wide buff?" especially now that we have our own raid buffs it makes things even cooler to think about lining stuff up depending on the fight! If the feedback team reads this, I just really hope they just give us back DoT procs even if they need to tweak a bit of potency...

[Jirah]

Been playing BRD to get a gripe on it and gotta say, changes aren’t terrible

Sidewinder loosing its dot enhancement is utterly stupid as BRD has one too many shallow GCDs as is, the song procs are consistent thru and thru and you can screw your DPS if you don’t pay attention to your dots even more so as the songs continue without it. Not getting procs was a big reminder to keep dots up, no more warning and your DPS will faulter

My one issue is AOE has been screwed up, outside of ballad, it’s very boring. Not as boring as say MCH or Lv50 DRG but it’s underwhelming. The other songs don’t have any aoe capabilities and feels inorganic, and of course 2 stacks is perfectly fine as is 3 is overkill and feels like “MCH has 3 per skill” type of compromise even more so that double procing doesn’t exist so they can remove it entirely and adjust DPS across the board. But now it’s just fatty.

Opinions on 90s Bard with its 3rd “Raging strikes but” skill is pending