I didn't mean to come across like I was saying bard's don't need any work, I think they do. I was mainly saying that most bards don't even realize how their alliance works and that they are actually capable of respectable DPS on raids if they are able to coordinate well with other bards. It's really night and day in the difference in bard DPS between raids and gorups at the moment, all because of a single spell. As I've said in many other posts I'm not a fan of the alliance spells in their current form, and the fact that so much damage for every DPS class now comes from a single spell you have absolutely zero control over which is frustrating.
Your feeling that you don't have control over this is real weird to me. Bards have far less, darn near infinitely less, control over how much damage their main abilities (aura, aria, warsong, suffering, dirge, etc) deal than over the output of Alliance.
Well I guess it's time to get back into this discussion, friends. It certainly seems to me that the Selo's kick change has resulted in lower DPS (and an unforgivable lack of a flying kick animation....). I do not hesitate to admit that changing it to an autofire ability is a large quality of life improvement (and certainly a DPS improvement for boxers), but the fact that it is no longer a range ability is clearly a nerf. I don't want to go on too much about the Rallying Call change, but the fact that our ability was split in two with double the cooldown AND that I have to buy new self-only ability rather than have it granted to me caused me to roll my eyes a bit... (same with crescendo/reaching notes). So where are we, Bards? What is if fair for us to request?
If you're going to nerf bards utilities, then you're supposed to increase their dps. Not lower it. I can only assume there is some new thing for bards in the next expansion that makes up for all of the nerfs the class is facing. But I won't be surprised if there isn't. I'm not actually a bard, but it seems like you're doubling down a bit hard on them at this time.
Silly me, when I was told bards were getting the kick skill at 17 I thought it was completely separate from Selo's. After fully reading the patch notes and understanding it would be a "replacement" I was hoping to have at least the same dps as before with one less button to spam every four seconds. Reading now it might actually be lower is very depressing.
Bard DPS increase required.. *devs add Kick* Bard DPS increase required.. theres no pleasing you guys
This probably wouldnt raise our dps but I think mobs should have a song window (aka short term buff window) just like players do, where bard dots could go so that way they wont be competing with other better debuffs.
As I see it, and I am probably wrong, the jobs fall along the lines of tank, healer, mezz/CC, porter and DPS. Some classes combine some functions
lol porter so is not a "job" And cc/mezz isn't really either. Most mobs are immune to 1 or more types of CC (except tanking). Jobs are really tank, healer everything else is filler
i saw a chance and i couldn't resist!! lol hopefully no one took me seriously tho cause for real bards do need some dps help