Bard LB feedback

[Terhix]

BRD ult is very strong. LB charge means your team gets their LB back faster and the 10% damage buff stacks with the two buffs you are already providing - your team gets +20% damage for 30 seconds and you get three stacks of haste. It's extremely strong. All of the 120 sec charge timer LBs are.

That's a bit of a stretch, Blast Arrow only lasts 10s, so at best you are looking at 20 seconds of full buffs. Compare it to AST stacking The Balance with LB for +40%/+30%/+20% in 5 second windows (plus mitigation), which just works better in the burst meta. Then you add the fact that with AST you are guaranteeing that your team unloads their all of their LB first. 30% personal haste is nice, but even with 30% haste and 10% damage you will be hard pressed to break any damage records at the end of the game since BRD personal damage baseline just isn't that great. *

The LB is not weak, but you have a lot of eggs riding in that 120s basket. You suffer the opportunity cost early game (that AST does not), and to get full benefit your whole team has to be alive, and in line of sight, and has to survive full 30 seconds after, and you have to survive the animation lock while you cast it to begin with.

*edit: to make sure I'm not misconstrued, I'm not saying that Bard is bad or weak here, the toolkit outside of LB is perfectly fine, damage is just not its strength.