Quote Originally Posted by Valence View Post
I don't understand your obsession with a loss of 2-4% on Coda tbh. This is such a specific thing to get bent upon... It's damage you lose, and it's part of the penalty for dying. Some jobs have more damage loss than others, sometimes it comes from pure resource based damage like MCH, sometimes it also comes a bit from Coda like BRD. I really don't get the issue, especially since Finale can still be used with even just one song registered.

As for the fun ruined by being songless for 30s until you can go back to the next song as if nothing happened, I really don't think it's a problem either, especially because when you get raised, you generally have other things to take care of than going back to full high octane APM with repertoire procs, but I do hear the argument.

I also don't feel that DNC is better suited to it either, that sounds like a purely subjective on "vibe" to me. And you'd translate to DNC what you find problematic on BRD right now, so I'm not sure of the point being swapping the system with DNC. What for? Just a vibe?
It's because it's the only raidbuff in the game that loses % it directly effects bards main purpose it also effects the damage that comes out afterwards from the follow up attack. So you do bad damage and you have a bad buff. Bards best attribute is it's buff, having a weaker buff from dying makes you inferior to Dancer. I'm not sure if you played current bard in savage, I did for p5-7s and it was really bad and unfun. I also played it recently for the current extremes and it isn't better if anything it's gotten worse.

Unless buffs realign and I am using wanderers for burst bards damage plummets down so far a tank can overtake it. Bard does way too little damage so if you don't stay rigidly optimised you will have absurdly low damage. If a tank can out damage a DPS why would you ever take that DPS to encounters with enrage timers.

It is subjective, everything I say is subjective obviously. There are people who love new summoner others who hate it. I think it suits dancer with more songs because dancer does exclusively burst buffs while bard has consistent buffs I think dancer gaining one extra dance or even using the new flourish finale to buff devilment or something would work better for dancer then bards radiant finale. Foe's requiem always suited the burst period better for bard then radiant finale ever has.