Nobody else is talking about it (I guess nobody cares anymore lol) but Bard’s ability set has a bunch of question marks and weirdness as a result of being a patchwork of various concepts across various expansions and I’d like to address my view on them.
* Repelling Shot -why? Why is it still here? What are you even for?
* Nature’s Minne - this cooldown is absolutely not proportional to the generally useless effect
* Warden’s Paean - Nobody likes Esuna. Personally I find the 45s cooldown on a goddamn Esuna just…offensive.
* Radiant Encore - why did you give us something that actually looks cool/bard-like then lock it behind an arbitrary raid buff? Why do you hate me Yoshi?
* Foe Requiem - can I have my song back please? Please, sir, I want some more, sir!
* Song Rotation - yes, yes, I’m aware it’s a skill issue blah blah blah but it’s incredibly annoying trying to manoeuvre your songs in dungeons when everything dies in less than 45 seconds. Then you have to go into the boss fight and you’re only like 1/3 of the way through Paeon. And ofc, dying at certain times can absolutely destroy your entire rotation by effectively locking you out of songs depending on cooldowns. Every job has this to some extent but Bard has it particularly bad (Summoner too)
* Empyreal Arrow / Resonant Arrow - Charges? Maybe? Also what if Resonant had a small chance to proc on Refulgent use? I wanna do more cool backflips lol
* Wide Volley - give me it back SE I don’t wanna do Toto-Rak just to have my coolest skill back lol. Why not make it like Burst/Refulgent where every Wide Volley has a chance of proc’ing Shadowbite? (Why do we have this DRK looking ability anyway lol when did Bards become agents of darkness?)
* Bard songs - I am once again voicing my utter distaste at all of Bards songs being reduced to dps stances. You’re telling me that singing a song about a kindly sage travelling the world makes me shoot heart-piercing arrows faster ??? The song about an army marching forward makes you shoot an arrow faster? I don’t even know what’s going on with Minuet. You sing a song about a wanderer and that…makes you shoot laser beams, I guess? It’s like a sick joke. I want to sing my songs in battle again and support the party like a real Bard; I never agreed to be an Archer With Various Musical Instruments Stuck up their Ass.
* This applies to the physical ranged role as a whole but like, they clearly have no idea what it’s supposed to be/do anymore and are just throwing random stuff at it in the hopes something will stick. Stop. You can do better SE.
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* Repelling Shot -why? Why is it still here? What are you even for?
* Nature’s Minne - this cooldown is absolutely not proportional to the generally useless effect
* Warden’s Paean - Nobody likes Esuna. Personally I find the 45s cooldown on a goddamn Esuna just…offensive.
* Radiant Encore - why did you give us something that actually looks cool/bard-like then lock it behind an arbitrary raid buff? Why do you hate me Yoshi?
* Foe Requiem - can I have my song back please? Please, sir, I want some more, sir!
* Song Rotation - yes, yes, I’m aware it’s a skill issue blah blah blah but it’s incredibly annoying trying to manoeuvre your songs in dungeons when everything dies in less than 45 seconds. Then you have to go into the boss fight and you’re only like 1/3 of the way through Paeon. And ofc, dying at certain times can absolutely destroy your entire rotation by effectively locking you out of songs depending on cooldowns. Every job has this to some extent but Bard has it particularly bad (Summoner too)
* Empyreal Arrow / Resonant Arrow - Charges? Maybe? Also what if Resonant had a small chance to proc on Refulgent use? I wanna do more cool backflips lol
* Wide Volley - give me it back SE I don’t wanna do Toto-Rak just to have my coolest skill back lol. Why not make it like Burst/Refulgent where every Wide Volley has a chance of proc’ing Shadowbite? (Why do we have this DRK looking ability anyway lol when did Bards become agents of darkness?)
* Bard songs - I am once again voicing my utter distaste at all of Bards songs being reduced to dps stances. You’re telling me that singing a song about a kindly sage travelling the world makes me shoot heart-piercing arrows faster ??? The song about an army marching forward makes you shoot an arrow faster? I don’t even know what’s going on with Minuet. You sing a song about a wanderer and that…makes you shoot laser beams, I guess? It’s like a sick joke. I want to sing my songs in battle again and support the party like a real Bard; I never agreed to be an Archer With Various Musical Instruments Stuck up their Ass.
* This applies to the physical ranged role as a whole but like, they clearly have no idea what it’s supposed to be/do anymore and are just throwing random stuff at it in the hopes something will stick. Stop. You can do better SE.
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