Bards, Checking In!

[Xeno_La]

New Bard to be here also =D!
Had leveled conj during phase 4 like many others aswell preparing for bard

Essentially I dont think it changes much what classes we need in the end, but I just think it makes more sense that a bard would need a conjurer as a secondary prerequisite, since our limit break is a heal?
and the Bard seems to have more magical elements to it rather than a melee character.

[Ptolemy]

Bard here too!....atleast till Ranger or Red mage enter the game XD

[StianGold]

Im tired of shooting arrows in 3 years. I better level up warrior

[MrKupo]

Professional treasure box opener of Aurum Vale and Cutter's Cry reporting for duty!

Seriously though, remember how that was a Bards main role in those raids? good times

[britestar90]

Bard/Archer here! Although I am disappointed about Bard being less supportive now since I enjoyed running around making sure each group had their songs, I do enjoy ranged DPS so I'm interested in how the job will play now

[Faine]

Looking forward to Bard. I guess I'm one of the few that don't really mind the CNJ change...even though I leveled one to 15 during P4.

[Xeno_La]

Anyone have any insights on stat allocation?
So far just using all stat points for dex. ><

[djstix]

Looking forward to the class, a bit disappointed that it's less support than it used to be though...

[Leraje]

New Archer/Bard joining the community of fellow song lovers
I was too kind of dissapointed about those recent ability changes and lesser supoort utilities of the Bard. And yeah i invested my time too into lvling a Conjurer to level 20. But are we really less supportive through those changes ?!
- All of those Conjurer skills were used by spending MP. => MP of the Bard exist to maintain the duration of his/her songs.
- We would never be really good secondary healers => We don't share the same or rather any MND Stat on our gear, so we could never take the role of a secondary healer
when we heal only 1/4 or maybe even less than the White Mage/Scholar himself.
- Skill sharing of the Pugilist => Well we get "Internal Release" through which we have the highest Crit Hit Rating of all classes/jobs and "Second Wind" for self emergency heal purposes.

We also gained a buff to increase incoming heals, potentially party-wide, by 10% for 15 seconds

Yea we have access to "Mantra" too, when we do have the time to spare to level up the Pugilist to lvl 42 ...
Finally i can just recommend us to try those changes out and it's not like we lost our purpose at all in the groups. Those kind of adjustments are never final and let's see what the future decides for us

[NeutronstarNeko]

Wannabe Bard here.

Levelled CNJ to 10 first thing so I could have Protect and Cure on ARC and thought it was necessary to get to 15 anyway but looks like thats changed now. Bit disappointed we wont have Cure...I know it was very weak but I still liked having it and in low 4-man content with tanks that cant always hold aggro it did get used if the Healer died. Internal Release from PUG is really nice but it is probably my least favourite class so wouldnt have levelled it otherwise I guess.

I wish we could see other players TP so we know when to sing without being prompted.