Bard's LB

[Myrha_Lhlalheva]

I was about to make a post about this! My friend and I did some testing last night and BRD LB gives a flat 20 seconds, by way of giving 2s of LB for each server tick (3s) that you have the Final Fantasia buff on you. The seeming variance is because the LB bar is deceptive--LB recharge does NOT start when the bar empties. All jobs begin charging LB as soon as you press the button, including jobs with long channels/animations (ex DRG). Outside of that, it also seems by our testing that pressing buttons doesn't contribute to LB charge time at all. Damaging abilities, healing abilities, and even the LB damage itself--none of these contribute to charging your LB any faster. The only thing that determines whether your LB charges or not is simply staying alive.

[Valence]

I was about to make a post about this! My friend and I did some testing last night and BRD LB gives a flat 20 seconds, by way of giving 2s of LB for each server tick (3s) that you have the Final Fantasia buff on you.

Well that makes more sense and explains the variance I got between jobs then.

Which means you get a 33% charge on a full BLM or GNB LB, while only getting half of it on the 2min long LBs.

I think it's actually good design, because that way it performs the same way over 120s no matter the LB that gets affected, as in everybody gets 16.6% shaved off every 2min.