Bards, Checking In!

[Catapult]

Another Bard here, checking in.

Bard seems to have become a bit of a utility class, but there is one thing I'm really looking forward to doing:
Partnering with a team of mostly black mages while singing the primals a requiem.

[Viridiana]

so.. the only support thing we will have is a limit break that heals? -.-
not even the shared raise skill?

And our songs. Y'know, the whole BRD schtick. And Mantra. Also, we were never going to be able to Raise while in combat; that's strictly for dedicated healers.

Sorry if this is off topic a lil bit, but let me see if I've got this straight... Archer lvl 30 no longer needs conjurer @ lvl 15, but instead Lancer? Or is it Pugilist lvl 15? I'm confused... any clarification would help! Thanks in advance!

We don't know for certain which class has to be lvl 15 to unlock the class. What we do know is in P4, we lost CNJ abilities and picked up PGL abilities. Logically, we're going to need either LNC or PGL now instead of CNJ, but won't know which until EA.

[cypherx]

New/old bard here. Curious as to what to do with my 30 attribute points? Any thoughts on that? Don't wanna run around with them just sitting there while trying to accomplish stuff and then again I don't wanna make a huge mistake and then have them not let us have a do over for like a year.

[Ice_Shadow]

Hi All,
New Archer/Bard here, still learning all the in's and out's of been a bard so will see where these changes go and see what happens next, but on a side note really loving ARR can't wait to see you all in game

[JJbad]

I'm ready to sing a elegy for those unfortunate souls who got pierced by a few dozen arrows.

[Ceivent]

Guess i'll throw in a "Hello Bard here also!" looking forward to my time as a BRD.

[PlayerOne]

Extremely happy with this change, as i didnt play 1.0 so i dont care as to what they used to be, more dmg and less support sounds awesome to me, leave the support to other classes i say.

[Valadriel]

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[Cold6]

This is probably weird but I knew as soon as I saw bloodletter for archer that was the class I wanted to start as and when I first saw bard I was like meh... musician... then I saw that the bard wasn't holding a harp but a big angry bow with a harp on it and I thinks to myself "... well that's interesting" then I find out that it's archer conj that makes a bard so I started toolin around with conj which was suprisingly more fun than I remember from FFXI and now I'm thinkin to myself... bard's the way to go


Let my soothing melody relax your every ache while I take aim.

[Angaros]

Unhappy spoony RNG with harp here ...
I loved my 1.23 bard and the run here to buff the mages, run there to buff the tank, make team run faster, raise whm 1 during fight, cure tank so whm 2 can can be raised ... It was challenging and fun. Now, I don't know when to sing my songs. Foe's Requiem lures all the mobs towards you. I can't see the TP of my party members so I can't judge when to sing Paeon. Everybody has Sprint which overrides Swiftsong. The only thing I've actually been able to enjoy singing in Beta is Mage's Ballad.

But I know, a lot of people want a physical ranged DD. And the role of "Support" has been negated. So I guess I'll just have to get use to my RNG with a harp.

I wish there were more songs. I wish there was a way to "Play" your instrument like in LOTRO - just to be a bit more bard like even if it's not really anything useful in game. Travel from tavern to tavern playing things like Suteki Da Ne or November Rain just for fun.