A challenge. Make Bard more Bard.

[Sakasa]

Should have been Class:Archer/Job:Ranger then Class:Bard/Job: Dancer

Yeah I can't agree with this at all just because having class to job being based of only one element, music makes that a dead line if they are going to add more job crystals to each class instead of adding a new class to introduce a new job. That and I would rather see sniper then ranger and give ranger to the two handed gun category.

[TTred]

Idk, when I think of bard I think of this guy.



And he was a badass.

[LunaticTear]

Mudd, I love your sig ;U

[Toxsik]

As much as I hate to feed into this kind of thread. I'm going to have to completely agree with the OP. SE knows what Bard is suppose to be like. Bard was added to archer to appease the community whining about wanting/needed a new magic/buffing class. Archer should have advanced its job to Ranger and they know it... When I saw what they did with Bard my first reaction was slight shock as I thought they were trying to make this game "perfect" like everyone likes to think, and the way Bard was implemented seemed completely half assed.

I know people on here will be all like but, but... Bard in other games uses bow... blah blah. Yes I know this... but trust me I know, SE knows, and YOU know what Bard is suppose to be like in the Final Fantasy staple and what archer/ranger is suppose to be like as well.

Even my linkshell makes fun of Bard/archer and calls it Barcher, LOL.

[Lucke]

I apologize if anyone brought this up, but Vanguard did Bard in a pretty cool way. You would learn parts of a song instead of the whole song and install these parts into your own custom song. You could name it and everything. Thing was, you could only have one song active.

This was years ago when I played so the Vanguard BRD may have changed but what I can remember is it went like this:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Every few levels you would learn a different "part" to install into your song. Some parts increased STR, or improved run speed, or maybe INT. And you could install these parts into your song, save it, name it, then cast it. The group would get all the buffs that the parts gave.

So like your song could be:

Part 1: STR +5
Part 2: INT + 5
Part 3: STR +10
Part 4: Run speed +20

So, when you played that song, everyone would get +15 STR, +5 INT, and a 20% run speed for the duration.

I think that would be pretty cool being able to build your own songs and have to decide which song is best for which situation.

[Andrien]

I apologize if I'm not explaining myself properly, but I feel like a few people are just going around in circles, so please enough with all the comparison because it is irrelevant, and I'm not asking for butterflies and ponies.

I understand some people like Bard the way it is, but honestly is there any difference that makes the job out shine the class? I don't see it. To me it still plays the same way, so I'm proposing a little visual change, and a little more than just the generic dps race. Keep in mind I'm not proposing to take away the dps.

What I want is more Bard specific bow/harp weapons with different stats for boosting songs. I want to utilize the harp that is mounted on the bow to shoot offensive songs that can do dmg, enfeeb enemies and buff.

Attacking things with music is something I think is cool. Everyone has their own opinion, but I think this way it'll make the Bard job more recognizable even without wearing any AF.

[Jamesy]

More guitars! Bring in mooshywooshy

[Kona4me]

I wish for this to happen in ARR~ not just support songs, i also want attack songs & such .

[Searious]

I couldn't agree more. I wish they would consider separating them for 2.0.

[RoninDarkchild]

While i wish Brd had more songs, and could equip instruments, I really like them as Archers as well. I do not want that taken away. RNG could just easily have a whole different class if it is ever implemented. That way the skills are nothing alike.