The Oath of the Competent Archer

[Soulburn32]

I think what a lot of people fail to understand with threat and tanks (I am a PLD) Until i get a 3 weapon skill combo of Fast Blade -> Savage Blade -> Rage of H. off it is easy to steal aggro from me. That combo takes a long time to get off. Shield lob plus flash does not generate the level of hate needed to keep a fully buffed archer from jumping me.

Please try to understand everyone's role and not just i'm here to push Max DPS everyone else get out of the way.

[KirinNight]

I think what a lot of people fail to understand with threat and tanks (I am a PLD) Until i get a 3 weapon skill combo of Fast Blade -> Savage Blade -> Rage of H. off it is easy to steal aggro from me. That combo takes a long time to get off. Shield lob plus flash does not generate the level of hate needed to keep a fully buffed archer from jumping me.

I think people need to get in the pre-Cataclysm WoW mindset, when threat still really mattered and each class offered something unique. The combat system feels like BC WoW, which is one reason I like it so much.

[amnie]

what happend to the good old MMO-rule of letting the tank do their job until the boss is down to at least 95% and the healer only casting the frirst heal once they are absolutely sure the tank has enough aggro? I was in a duty finder group earlier where the healer thought it was a good idea to spam medica right off the bat because the archer decided to pull. made me a sad panda :/

that being said I love this topic. yay archer! yay bard! (there's bads for every class and right now there seems to be a lot of 'elitism' to say it mildly in regards to how people have to be 'not a baddie' and that the entire responsiblity is apparently always on.. well... the other roles. lol)

to the top dmg deal: I have long since accepted that even as a dps class it's not always most important that you personally are the top dps. I have no problem spamming support skills. it's part of the reason why I hope (against better knowledge) that parsers will never make it to this game. a lot of dps focus waaaay too much on their numbers and are actually proud of stealing aggro...

[NintenPyjak64]

what happend to the good old MMO-rule of letting the tank do their job until the boss is down to at least 95% and the healer only casting the frirst heal once they are absolutely sure the tank has enough aggro? I was in a duty finder group earlier where the healer thought it was a good idea to spam medica right off the bat because the archer decided to pull. made me a sad panda :/

Was the tank using Marks? If not, then that'll explain why things went south quickly. If so then headstrong people will be headstrong

[fracturechris]

As a Bard(in training) myself. I swear to follow this oath. I will deal the damage, and I will support my group as required.

More mana for the ones keeping us alive? Not a problem.
More TP so you can keep the hate flowing? I can handle that.

Oh, and I can handle that while destroying our chosen enemies, and thus earning the trust of my peers as a competent Bard, who knows his role. Just like the competent healers and tanks know theirs.

[Kayo]

Quelling Strikes + starting out with the DoTs (Windstrike and the poison one) hasnt pulled from tank yet. Just make sure you hit the tanks target AFTER he initially pulls. Obviously attacking a mob that hasnt been hit yet will pull ...so dont.

Its really not that hard people. MMOs are just about the easiest video game genre out there. Quit being Huntards and play with a team mindset. Teamwork > than your stupid trinity role! That goes for all classes. It just boggles the mind how people can make such idiotic mistakes so frequently.

As for the oath ... yeah sure ill take it. Not the last line though ... we're not support anymore. Ill gladly use the Ballads when necessary but im there to pewpew.

I am however on Limit Break strike until SE gives us a proper Limit Break ... Healing Wind is for healers. It really sucks having two Archers/Bard in a team and having only Healing and Tank LBs.

[KyteStones]

Support? No. Bards are best DPS. If someone in the group asks me to song I tell them to fuck off and they should play better.

Everything else, cool beans.

This..you are the reason why when we get a Archer/Bard in the DF I sigh. You may be able to do 'faster" dps with no casting time as opposed to my BLM, but when it comes down to it, you are another support character and my damage outranks you (but we all know casters are supposed to be kinda OP anyways, its in every mmo). The bard songs are meant to help the teammates and meant to be used if you know how to use your class correctly, which I'm guessing you're not. How you managed to make it to level 50 is beyond me. With the play style and attitude you give off, I'd be out of that instance in a heart beat. Shoutouts to Bards though who know how to use the songs and saved our asses on Garuda!

[Req]

The Oath of the Competent Tank

1. I will be a good tank so a good archer does not have to follow most of those rules.

[UBERHAXED]

Oh please tell me oh great lvl 28 archer (who doesn't have quelling strikes, or even Bard) what you plan to do during the other 75 seconds between the cool downs of quelling strikes? Heals? Tankz? You haven't even entered high level play and most of the problems actually are eliminated when most of the bad tanks are weeded out. In fights where DPS is a determining factor (e.g. HM Titan, Demon Wall, etc.) You can't afford to be held back by tanks who can't hold aggro over 2 constantly healing healers and 4 constantly DPS(-ing) DDs. In case you didn't know, Bard actually does it's role (DPS) quite well and if it had no buffs, it still would be the same situation. E.g. I've over 480 crit so fights usually go something like this (more often when I use Internal release)
GCD1: Fires Straight Shot
Off GCD: Fires Bloodletter
GCD2: Fires Venomous shot
Off GCD: Venom crit, Fires Bloodletter
GCD3: Fires Fires Windbite
Off GCD: Venom crit, Fires Bloodletter
GCD4: Fires Heavy shot, straighter shot activated
GCD5: Fires Straight Shot, crits due to straighter shot
Off GCD: Venom crit, Fires Bloodletter
Off GCD (again...): Windbite crit, Fires Bloodletter
GCD6: Fires Heavy shot, Heavy shot crits
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Not sure if that BLM guy was serious either when he looks at "faster DPS" or what. DPS is a rate (S stands for seconds) so... faster is higher. And this has practically no TP cost (total net -60TP for the 6 cooldowns example) so the damage is indefinite (no "spikes"). So yeah... Of course I didn't include any of the buffs either (two +20%, straight gives indefinite [practically] +10% crit, another +20% crit, triple auto attack, other moves off GCD (12 second CD)). Of course you can continue believing what you want but I've never cleared Demon Wall as fast as I can with 2 Bards. Yeah, no AOE limit break, no DD limit break, just attack the bees and they die quickly.

[Kobolt]

Oh please tell me oh great lvl 28 archer (who doesn't have quelling strikes, or even Bard) what you plan to do during the other 75 seconds between the cool downs of quelling strikes? Heals? Tankz? You haven't even entered high level play and most of the problems actually are eliminated when most of the bad tanks are weeded out.

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