Meleewalker to Meleetrail

[Valence]

Let's not push it BRD is far from complex at a basic level. It's just finicky, not intuitive and annoying to optimize, but it's not exact rocket science either.

Phys range is in a bad spot
Bard is still a very awful job due to the tripling down on the song rotation and radiant finale.
Dancer basically became more brainless and overcaps on esprit like hell.
Machinist feels fine I guess but it's damage is awful.

Yeah bringing a picto to replace Phys range is a better choice tbh. Even RDM too since it has a raid buff and a raid shield. Phys range needs a complete role rework.

What's wrong with the song rotation? Besides that the recast could be adjusted? I think it's a neat and unique concept proper to the job. I'd kill to get something flavorful like that on mch...

[Supersnow845]

Let's not push it BRD is far from complex at a basic level. It's just finicky, not intuitive and annoying to optimize, but it's not exact rocket science either.



What's wrong with the song rotation? Besides that the recast could be adjusted? I think it's a neat and unique concept proper to the job. I'd kill to get something flavorful like that on mch...

I mean finicky not intuitive and annoying to optimise are exactly what makes it a difficult job

Think about it at baseline SAM is just keep banana up, do your midare loops spam shinten with kenki. Optimising it at baseline involves hagakure filler sticker dumps but it’s in the same position in the sense of it’s easy to just press everything as it lights up and do decent damage

BRD isn’t as hard to gold parse optimise as SAM but I’d certainly have it as harder than RPR, harder than NIN and around the DRG level

[GoatOfWar]

I mean finicky not intuitive and annoying to optimise are exactly what makes it a difficult job

Think about it at baseline SAM is just keep banana up, do your midare loops spam shinten with kenki. Optimising it at baseline involves hagakure filler sticker dumps but it’s in the same position in the sense of it’s easy to just press everything as it lights up and do decent damage

BRD isn’t as hard to gold parse optimise as SAM but I’d certainly have it as harder than RPR, harder than NIN and around the DRG level

Well, then you also have third eye and a lot of trial and error to see what you can get away with.
With some support, you can even take some tankbusters JUST for 10 extra Kenki. That's largely why parsing as Sam is difficult. Most of us don't go that extra mile.
The job itself isn't really complex- none of the jobs in this game are. I mean, i've seen groups let the Sam pull every fight JUST for 10 Kenki after the auto attack.

[Ramiee]

What's wrong with the song rotation? Besides that the recast could be adjusted? I think it's a neat and unique concept proper to the job. I'd kill to get something flavorful like that on mch...

If you die all of your songs are messed up and you lose all your damage and your reason for being there. Radiant finale buffs less, you do less damage and overall its incredibly punishing and so hard to recover from. It also means you have to stare at your song gauge often to see if your at the right time to switch songs so you can align with the 2 minute burst. If the game wasnt designed around raid buff alignment it would be more fine I would still hate it because this whole system reads Dancer far more to me then bard.