Bards, Checking In!

[Mint_tea]

What does everyone else think? Should Bard become more support-oriented? Less? Or is it fine the way it is?

Having loved my FF11 Bard and enjoying support roles, it's my opinion that the newest changes to Bard are a step in the wrong direction. My limited experience with Archer (lvl 35 in phase 3) from beta made the class already seem like a strong DD that would be able to hold up DPS with any other class. I understand that songs reduce dps but even so, it seemed like a reasonable trade off for their raid utility. If anything, I would have preferred seeing more spells or songs offering things like a single target vitality boost or PBAoE elemental resistance buff instead of a damage increase.

The outcry for a ranged DD should have been refocused toward Musketeer and Archer/Bard should have been left alone... I'm still excited to return to my old job, but those are just my thoughts.

[Pure-Taurus]

I hate being one to posit some arbitrary percentages, but I'd say Bard has become around 70% Damage and 30% support.
Damage dealing and stuff is fine, but I'd much rather see it as 50/50 between damage and support.
What does everyone else think? Should Bard become more support-oriented? Less? Or is it fine the way it is?

When, or IF they add a DPS/debuff Ranger, that's when Bard will become a real support/DPS i think. Until then, i'm afraid we are stuck with not really knowing what it wants to be...

I can't see the TP of my party members so I can't judge when to sing Paeon

I posted feedback for this after the Oβ, i hope the dev team noticed it...

[buccfan001]

I heard about the Bards dropping Conjurer and picking up Pugilist too, check out his video: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7gOooN8BmhY

[Brahma]

Initially, I was sold on archer/bard once I learned that we would not have to buy arrows. Keeping track of arrows is an incredible nuisance, I think. So, I played archer to about 24 in Phase 3. I liked it, but I grew increasingly worried about what I was reading at the beta forums about bard (which I have since disregarded). I was almost 100% sure I was going for monk in the weeks between Phase 3 and 4, but something changed LITERALLY when I went to create my character on the 16th. I chose archer. I guess maybe I felt like maybe I had unfinished business, but there ya go. Moving forward, I'm happy with my choice, and I think I'll make a cool bard.

[Bamhead]

Hello fellow bardies! Future bardie checkin' in!

[DannyPhantom]

Hello!

[GN_RaiserSword]

Seriously... cannot

[Lorian]

So excited I never pla FFXI or XIV and had a lot of fun in the beta. I for one cannot wait to get my Bard uniform

[Darian]

IMO bard feels like it's in a good place to me. I love that I can support the group if needed but we are also legit DD.

[Medieval]

Bards are hard hitting dps with song spells. They will stay this way until hopefully Rangers come out. I speculate they will get a lot of their support style play buffed while rangers play the pure dps classes. Or they will stay the same because sqaure enix doesn't like support classes.

Until then. Fuck it, lets party like it's 1984