BLM vs Bard

[Dorin]

It's simple, in fights where you can be static all the time like Anantaboga (Amdapor keep final boss), BLM is #1 DPS.

In fights where you have to be dodging all the time like Titan HM, Bard is #1 DPS.

For obvious reasons.

[Itchyness]

Funny how when the game just came out 3 weeks ago, everyone was raging that Bards were the most underpowered because of the -20% dmg during songs. Now its completely flopped.

[charlemagne]

Yoshi's favourite class is BLM. He plays BLM. If BLM isn't top dps you can rest assured adjustments will be made sooner or later.

[Mairuzu]

My solution for Black Mage is to let the procs STACK so you can shoot off more instant spells while running.

Either that or add 1 more proc to the table.

They also need to fix the terrible lag when it comes to the FIRE III proc because having to wait to see if it procs instead of quickly casting fire I will weaken your dps.

[d4rkie]

I agree that bards are a bit OP when I can take all the nice stuff from DRG and MNK and use it on my bard, can do 1K damage just from buffs. But then, my limit break is useless. Even if I can kite chimera and keep myself alive, my limit break would not even resurrect the rest of the party. They sort of broke the role when they shifted it from support, IMO

[LeviathanElite]

I agree that bards are a bit OP when I can take all the nice stuff from DRG and MNK and use it on my bard, can do 1K damage just from buffs. But then, my limit break is useless. Even if I can kite chimera and keep myself alive, my limit break would not even resurrect the rest of the party. They sort of broke the role when they shifted it from support, IMO

People keep citing our limit break... TAKE IT AWAY I DONT CARE,

EITHER A) LET ME MOVE WHILE I CAST SPELLS OR B) INCREASE MY DAMAGE GREATLY

SO I DONT FEEL TERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIBLE about not picking bard

[Warlyx]

People keep citing our limit break... TAKE IT AWAY I DONT CARE,

EITHER A) LET ME MOVE WHILE I CAST SPELLS OR B) INCREASE MY DAMAGE GREATLY

SO I DONT FEEL TERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIBLE about not picking bard

A) not gonna happen , u have swiftcast and instant cast spells

B) your dmg is fine , both single and aoe

C) go level bard , in FFXIV is easy to level since u dont have to redo all missions and are forced to create another character


ITT: offensive caster wanting to be top dps, what a surprise. 8)

and yeah i feel like SMN are doing the most dmg (not burst) , drg put high numbers aswell but there are battles that are melee unfriendly atm.

[LunarEmerald]

Bard can't do 1000 damage. Even with a critical misery's end, relic+, full darklight and every offensive buff it can have.

[Klefth]

Bard can't do 1000 damage. Even with a critical misery's end, relic+, full darklight and every offensive buff it can have.

True, but big numbers aren't everything anyway. In the end, BRD beats out BLM easily because of how fast they can dish out their smaller numbers (which stack up obscenely), particularly because of the River of blood trait. On BRD, stacking some crit rate and using crit rate food, I can spam Bloodletter ridiculously as it's CD resets every time a Windbite OR Venomous bite proc crits, and that thing is instant and has no TP cost at all. That trait, along with the ability to shoot while facing any direction at all and while running around at normal speed, makes BRD a rather broken job.

[d4rkie]

Bard can't do 1000 damage. Even with a critical misery's end, relic+, full darklight and every offensive buff it can have.

sorry, I meant the sum during the offensive buffs from initial cooldown. at my current level I use 4 buffs that make the "windbite + blood letter + heavy shot + straight shot" deal ~1K damage in total. of course there's no way a bard can deal 1K in one shot