Quote Originally Posted by Valence View Post
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Punishment is good, but being unable to recover is just unfun. Everyones raid buffs at 2 mins all will always buff the same amount % bard is the only one who if they die loses the % buff and the damage from the attack afterwards. Due to how songs CDs work this might take a few buff cycles to realign or you will just have to provide no buffs for a while to force it to realign. Which makes you lose out on the gameplay changes they do to bard, making it really boring healer level rotation. It's completely different from losing battery from machinist because you will always have your 2 minute buffs. Bard who dies does become pretty worthless for that buff cycle, at least a dancer who dies raidbuff will be consistent, after all you don't take these jobs for their damage.

I just don't think song rotation suits bard at all. Dancer is so much more burst buff focused that I think giving it 3 dances for it's own radiant finale works better then bard having song rotation. idk if current bard is worse at recovery then SB machinist I don't know but I will say it's one of the worst in DT at recovering at death with maybe BLM being worse.