Thread: Bard's 6.1 changes - why bother?

The issue at the moment is less to do with the fact the song turns into a replacement button for Pitch Perfect.

The problem comes with it being a double OGCD button which causes queuing issues with the system.

Since Bards for many xpacs have been fishing for procs for many years there's quite a bit of ingrained button mash mentality causing an error with weaving Raging Strikes at this time. Players have been complaining in the bard communities and reddit as well.

Its one thing to make this change at the beginning of an Xpac so at least you have time to re adjust or ask them to fine tune how the skill executes since it shares with another OGCD. To have it done mid cycle and add insult to injury have it be buggy with other bards present. Causing you to lose out on a song cycle.

It causes animosity and toxicity amongst the playerbase. Granted this is likely the bug is likley to be hotfixed tomorrow but it's not an acceptable bug given this was the second time messing with Bard causes a backlash. Beginning of heavensward bards saw themselves unable to execute actions after their first bloodletter.

Its something that double OGCDs sharing the same button should be addressed as its not the only job suffering ie DRG with the jumps.

Originally Posted by QT_Melon

Well now. Apparently Bard will not be fixed until April 26th. So I guess its okay to have 1/3 of your kit messed up because they don't want to do a client update sooner.

Lol right? I actually thought they’d address this last night but nope.

Originally Posted by Kaseladen

Bug notwithstanding (which super sucks especially with it taking until the 26th to fix) the Pitch Perfect change is useless, and if I ever mistakenly remove it from my bar, extremely detrimental.
Why would I ever bind my song to something that needs to be constantly used like that

I'm lucky I play on PC. I backed up my character folder to my backup HDD, my external SSD, and Google Drive juuuust in case all my HDD/SSDs decide to fail at once. If I ever remove Pitch Perfect by accident I can just copy/paste my HOTBAR.DAT and get it back.