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Act is broken dude.
Its the nerf to Det (which affects our autos) and barrage that hit us the hardest and the fact that we can't use two great abilities because of how pointless it is to use WM in a raid setting, we were only behind melee by like 70 DPS pre 3.0, now its more towards 300-400 since a similar skilled and geared DRG can parse for 1250. Its an insane gap is dps.And then this was posted on bard dps. My god, if those parses are accurate then we have much bigger problems than a stance that doesn't work.
Well I am. Bard is suppose to be a support job more than a DPS job.
If you want to be a DPS, then be a DPS.
Oh ok, so I guess you already know how well I do or don't play my job. Excuse me who are you exactly?This is probably just your excuse to do shit dps
BRD is a DPS class with support abilities, not the other way around.
If you think its okay to do 400 dps less that other classes then maybe you should play PLD or something.
Honestly, I can tell just how you react that you really do not know how to play your class, theres no way in hell you think that its good at its current state because it isn't and thats a fact. Thats how I know how well you play your class.Oh ok, so I guess you already know how well I do or don't play my job. Excuse me who are you exactly?
Alright, lol im sure people on my server beg to differ since i usually always parse near the top before 3.0 and have had a lot of people tell me how well a I play bard but please, keep your head up your ass.Honestly, I can tell just how you react that you really do not know how to play your class, theres no way in hell you think that its good at its current state because it isn't and thats a fact. Thats how I know how well you play your class.
And who are you? Telling people to play a different game/class?
I don't think he realizes he's talking to two server first coil bards on high pop servers lol.Honestly, I can tell just how you react that you really do not know how to play your class, theres no way in hell you think that its good at its current state because it isn't and thats a fact. Thats how I know how well you play your class.
And who are you? Telling people to play a different game/class?
And I edited my op since I noticed it was kinda mean, but I think its fine now considering all the ignorant things you have been saying.
Nah, I got 2nd SCoB and 3rd/4th FCoB I think.I don't think he realizes he's talking to two server first coil bards on high pop servers lol.
Nice, yeah I'm behind on extremes because I let my MSQ's sit on the back burner and was 60 before even finishing the hinterlands lol. Finally got to the last quest last night but with A ranks popping off and being a slave to the miner/botany nodes every 35 mins has made it hard to progress. I really love that I've spent maybe a day or two dedicated to leveling gatherers and I'm already hitting 54 on those classes lol. Such a relief considering the cancer that was 2.0 gathering without 100 leves to dig into. Pissed I missed out on the 2.0 leve train for crafting though; they nerfed the 45 leves after EA and I didn't get a chance to do them since it was push for 60 or die. I really hate when devs do that, because the people who abused it got their crafts to 60 easy and the rest of us will have to suffer through it the normal way. :SNah, I got 2nd SCoB and 3rd/4th FCoB I think.
I just got my Hive Bow, its pretty beast. 83 Crit, had to do 10 runs of Ravana Ex to get it though, thank god for the token system.
Wanderer's Minuet:
Development team is aware of the following:
Generally, DPS is larger when not under Minuet.
Bards' specialty of "Ability to attack while moving" is impacted when under Minuet, hard to see benefits of being in Minuet.
Unwieldy to change stances.
Due to the degree to which the above points are felt by the community, especially the first point (Less damage in Minuet), the development team is looking into changes.
They're looking to change the effect (but not increase damage too much), make it easier to switch between stances, and reduce the difficulty and general clunkiness with the current Bard.
Warden's Paean:
Generally treated as hard to use/low value, development team is looking into it.
Bloodletter Bug:
Fixed in hotfix.
idk man, I think WM is here to stay. If they remove it then they would have to make BRD DPS weaker than MCH to balance out the advantage of being able to move 100% of the time and thats a big nono imo, then people are going to end up taking MCH over BRD becuase of the higher DPS potential and same utility.I'm just really sad they did this and there was no call for it. They will eventually change it as the bard population dies due to overcomplexity for no reward when other classes parse 1-200 dps higher and have complete freedom of movement other than positionals. Only BLM I feel needs some love with dependency on ley lines now. Every other class is for the most part happy with some aspect of what they got and yet bards are just left in the dust with nothing, especially now that sidewinder sucks. In all my years of MMO gaming, I have never had my main class so utterly destroyed for me like this.
Oh that's the best part, MCH is already parsing higher than bard in fights. The GB buff was godly and might need dialing back a bit (a crazy good monk in my guild was parsing over 1k on some fights playing MCH). I for sure will be checking out MCH when I get my crafters where I want them, but for now I'm just stuck with bard as my only 60 to raid with so if I don't raid in two weeks, I couldn't care less at this point. They'll just hand all the gear out in two months anyway with casual patches and now that my server first group is caput there's really no driving factor to raid. I gave WM a fair go a couple times and the flashy moves are sweet, but in the end the job just isn't fun to play that way for me.idk man, I think WM is here to stay. If they remove it then they would have to make BRD DPS weaker than MCH to balance out the advantage of being able to move 100% of the time and thats a big nono imo, then people are going to end up taking MCH over BRD becuase of the higher DPS potential and same utility.
Sorry, but Alex as a whole is made to be super easy. Yo can have shit tier dps and still beat it, for savage you will probably need all dps to be over 1k, no BRD will be over 1k w/o a DRG. So yes, there is a reason why you shouldn't take BRD if you want to psuh for early clears.People not taking bards is just people reading whatever people think on the internet and believing its impossible to do anything with Bards.
Ive cleared all of Alex as a bard and had no issues. I cleared A1 with 2 Bards and a MCH and I cleared A4 with 2 Bards.
People who think you cant take bards to anything are just being stupid. I had a Ninja in our Bis group last night saying we weren't able to kill the adds because we had a Bard (me) and a BLM in the group but people running the phase all said that he was the lowest DPS in the party.
I understand that but at this point in time there is only Alex, Dungeons, Bis EX and Ravana EX for end game as as it stands right now there is no reason at all to exclude Bard from groups esp PF other then just being dumb.Sorry, but Alex as a whole is made to be super easy. Yo can have shit tier dps and still beat it, for savage you will probably need all dps to be over 1k, no BRD will be over 1k w/o a DRG. So yes, there is a reason why you shouldn't take BRD if you want to psuh for early clears.
BRD with DRG is strong though, since DRG's will lend you that extra 10% damage and 15% crit buff.
They said Alex Savage is the same difficulty as SCoB Savage but I doubt they mean T7s, I'm thinking its going to be a little easier than SCoB Savage and a little harder than FCoB on release.I understand that but at this point in time there is only Alex, Dungeons, Bis EX and Ravana EX for end game as as it stands right now there is no reason at all to exclude Bard from groups esp PF other then just being dumb.
As far as Alex Hard goes no idea what its going to be like at all till we get to that point. Im sure once its out ill clear it on Bard just like ive done on everything else that ive had no problems on.
Also if going for early clears most groups will probably want a bard anyways since for those early clears youll likely need TP/MP regain anyways. Granted MCH can do that as well but ive already had several statics trying to get me in their group as Bard for Alex hard.
Yes, but the damage is done. The stigma now is that bards are a detriment to the party and do not produce results. This is a fundamental FAILURE of SE's design team and I hope it comes back to bite them hard.People not taking bards is just people reading whatever people think on the internet and believing its impossible to do anything with Bards.
Ive cleared all of Alex as a bard and had no issues. I cleared A1 with 2 Bards and a MCH and I cleared A4 with 2 Bards.
People who think you cant take bards to anything are just being stupid. I had a Ninja in our Bis group last night saying we weren't able to kill the adds because we had a Bard (me) and a BLM in the group but people running the phase all said that he was the lowest DPS in the party.
On fights where dps checks are a reality, it can actually make or break a run (or should we forget how necessary MNK was on T13 for dragon kick?). Bards would have already been out the door long ago if not for mana/TP songs but now that MCH is a viable alternative and not dependent on DRG for dps increase, we're seeing what happens when a job underperforms or is overly complex to play. This is very much where SMN was at for 2.0 and now BLM is the redheaded stepchild, so there is precedent. Point is, there are a lot of unhappy customers with the direction the design team is taking and that's unhealthy for an MMO. I understand change is hard to accept sometimes, but in this instance it has created far too many issues than is worth pursuing. I just hope they realize their mistake before further damage is done.Yeah because people are sheep and just believe what people like you say.
Bard isn't perfect. But having one in your party isnt going to make or break your run.
We've yet to see a litmus test yet to see just how 'fine' bard dps is when pitted against actual fights. But yes, the inflation of stats may be putting bard dps where it should be by the numbers and we're not used to such a large dps gap for a support role yet. They already sat far behind MNK and DRG dps in the past but at that time the margin was much closer than 200-300 dps difference. The general consensus of bard being unfun to play is exactly how I feel at this time when having to stance dance. I'm now even experiencing what it's like to sacrifce mechanics for dps and it feels bad man, real bad; I take back everything I've ever said to our BLM when they'd die standing in something.On BG in reading that Bard DPS generally is fine just people don't find it fun to play.
Also, maybe my server is just different but generally in game i havent seen much bard hate at all.
It's not fair to expect players to farm each turn each week for a specific piece of loot when it has a chance of dropping on top of a chance to win it. I've only done a few runs for loot and it's already mindnumbing even before winning my loot. Then to expect the rest of your farm group to continue on because someone needs a lens or shaft for 5+ runs just to see the same loot each time is overbearing. In fact, people were so disengaged by our 5th run of A2 last night a tank died on the last wave and the dolls got loose causing a wipe. I said, whelp I'm done and everyone agreed. I even goofed on my first A4 kill this week by rolling on a crank so I'm still 4 weeks out from being OiS again pre-savage but oh well, not like it matters at this point.People have a problem with the token system?
Alex isn't suppose to be like towers. They just said it would be a little harder than towers. Making it one and done would just cause people to then complain they have nothing to do. Its only been out a little over a week and I already have 6 pieces.