What would you like to see for your job: Bard Edition!Follow

Since the job forums have been pretty inactive for awhile, I thought I'd start a new topic in each devoted to things you'd like or wish that Square Enix would do with each job. They can be legitimate things you'd like to see, or they could be absurd, and, while they can be, they don't have to be any serious or groundbreaking changes you think each job needs, just something you think would improve them a bit in some form. Just try to keep the topic clean and drama free (emphasis on try). Just have some fun with this and let your ideas soar.

Though it's probably take a bit for them to do since it'd mean reworking every song's effect, I'd like to see each type of song with its own actual music when it's being played. When in the casting animation, you couldn't actually tell what song is being played since Marches sound like Minuets and Madrigals sound like Mambos. The actual tunes played for each song isn't different whatsoever, and I think changing it so they did reflect the song cast would be interesting.

Four new meritable songs:

Energetic Canticle: A single target regain song. Unlocking to level 1 increases amount of tp regained by 1, capping at 5 tp/tick for level 5. It'd be so very very broken that it will never happen, but...

Taciturn Aria: An AOE sneak song. Level 1-5 adds five seconds extra duration on top of the normal song length (mine is also around four minutes these days.) Most of us would leave it at level one since this already beats out Spectral Jig, although it won't be quite as long in duration as a modern WHM's sneak and invis.

Covert Aria: An AOE invisible song. Same stuff as the Sneak song.

Altana's Hymnus: An AOE reraise II song. Zombie fighting with Goddess Hymnus can take a hit on your exp when used repeatedly. Level 1 unlocks, level 2-5 takes off 15 seconds of weakness. I'd take this to level 3 for 4.5 minute weakness.

Edited, Sep 30th 2012 1:31pm by catwho

Oh another thing is another tier of threnodies. Or make the ones we have stronger.

..Because blasting away on your trumpet is an effective way to avoid being detected by sound...

In all seriousness though it would be useful.

I'd like to be able to issue mobs charmed with maiden's virelai basic commands like "fight" or if not, at least have them start attacking when I attack something.

Also, I'd love it if some of the more useless songs could not overwrite the good ones. Like would it really be gamebreaking to allow us to have say, goblin gavotte up with double march? probably not. Would be cool if spells were in different categories and we could have 2 general buffs (refresh, regen, haste, attack, def) one elemental resist and one debuff resist up at once without a 99 d harp

I guess that would make us better but I find brd a lil wee bit underpowered atm, maybe just cause I don't have a d-harp

Bard is suffering from one thing and that is solo ability. It's buffs simply don't make it strong enough to successfully solo or make a dent in small groups. I've proposed a couple additions to bards exisitng abilities. Allow requiem songs to stack, and Not wake mobs slept by lullaby. Making it the only DoT that can do this.

1. Add more charm songs that work on beastmen, and undead. Bard should be able to control them for short periods of time to fight for him. Starting at level 30, and getting one every 15 levels. Some doing different things. Minimum time a charm works is 5 minutes, target gets more resistant to it. By the 5th usage target becomes 100% resistant. Also, do away with exp loss for charmed mob. 200 exp from a tricked minion isnt game breaking or ground breaking. Killing it after charm wears off should be fair exp.

2. Confuse songs - Target attacks itself and whatever else that's in range. Good for after sleeping, casting confuse then using a dia to wake it up and watch it attack nearest target. But once someone melees the target, confuse wears off. Should get a single target and an AoE version of this. target can remained confused while under the effect of charm.

Uh, Evisceration?