Condensing Bard with Morphing Buttons

[HyoMinPark]

I don’t know of many abilities that could be condensed on BRD outside of Burst Shot/Refulgent procs, and Minuet/Pitch Perfect. I saw someone saying to turn Mage’s Ballad into Bloodletter, but the issue there is that BL is not used exclusively within Mage’s. All three stacks are squeezed into burst windows, which would be your Minuet + Raging window. So I fail to see how condensing these two would help. If anything, now you’ve locked BL into just Mage’s and removed the usage of them during the other two songs (and stockpiling them for bursts).

You could just outright remove Leg Graze and Foot Graze (I don’t even have them on my bar), and Repelling Shot. Repelling hasn’t been on my bar since the took the damage off it in Stormblood, and I don’t think it has much use. BRD is 100% mobile and not locked into a melee range, so a backstep doesn’t seem that useful to me (compared to how it would be a melee). Warden’s Paean is another that I think can be sent to the chopping block. It’s just too situational, and not as useful as it could be—now if they want to add in cleansing mechanics, then fine. But right now, there just aren’t enough being added to really give credence to keeping it around.

As it stands, I don’t think BRD has “button bloat”.

I agree... Most jobs do a 1, 2, 3 combo and morphing them into 1 would save a lot of space (especially for controller users that have 8 primary abilities they can set)

Controllers don’t really have a problem with button bloat. I don’t know where you’re getting the “8 primary abilities” from where 1 crossbar is 16 slots…. Enable the expanded cross and you instantly have access to 32 button slots easily.