For once, the set-up is exactly what I did. I started as an Arcanist, and within my first few minutes of playing, I saw someone playing music in Limsa. I stopped and listened for the next two hours. It was that moment when I knew I was hooked on this game, and it's community. I vowed that I would become a music man some day.
Same. I randomly found a group doing a concert. Starting to fill out bard as a job for when I’m past current level cap. (New player with summoner at 58, still haven’t gotten to heavensward)
You used 1 coda right away for standard opener. Cause then you will keep mage ballad and army codas as 2 codas and then get the 3rd one with another round of Wanderer.
FYI, this is not an "idiot's" guide to bard. This is like a "person who's played a lot of mmos and probably even other classes in FFXIV's" guide to bard.
All those skills and cooldowns and stats... How do u remember all that 😫. My first mmorpg and it's lookin too overwhelming, not to mention there's a dozen more classes... ughhhh
I'm on free trial so i don t need more than lv 60 abilities, but every time i take a new job i check your guides first, they're amazing to have a preview on how to play the job
Good video! I love these type of videos. I been leveling other jobs and these video help me understand much better on how to play them. They help me be a little bit less fail on any job! 💙💜❤ Keep up the great work!
Ayo just saw this very cool wanted to play bard Edit: my phone broke in the middle of this, anyways the class seems very cool but i don’t really like non magic ranged characters so i don’t know if its worth it
Me personally as a bard being my main, I try to use radiant finale during by burst window which is wanderers minuet, with all buffs active. And apex arrow I just use whenever I can personally i my rotation
I'm jumping back in after 3 years of not playing. This helped. Question though - if I use Army's Paeon then Battle Voice, does it stack the increased direct hit rate?
Umm... What? I just started a trial of this game and picked archer. I think I may be too old to play this game because I can't remember this stuff when in the middle of a fight. Guess I'll go back to Farm Sim.
Feel like this class is in dire need of a redesign. I get that they probably didn't want another class witb a 1 - 2 - 3 combo, hence the straight shot mechanic, but the result is just a class where you repeatedly mash the same two buttons in the hopes that your more fun abilities will proc, not to mention the general ability bloat. When half your abilities can be assigned to a single macro with little to no loss of dps, something has gone wrong.
Thanks for explaining the music notes. All I've been doing is firing off all my songs and then return to my other abilities and rinse, repeat. I haven't paid any attention to the proccing. I know this isn't part of the video but I'm level 55 now and have done the level 50 job quest but I'm not able to pick up 52 and 54 yet because I haven't made it to some storyline quest. From what I see online, I'll be in my 70s before that happens. Did I do something wrong in my leveling? All I've been doing are the job quests and MSQ with a few blue quests thrown in. No side quests at all and I'm still a private 2nd class in the company. Yet, I'm about to do the Ultimate Weapon quest.
this video help me a lot, i just come back after more than a year with out playing, i was really confuse having a lvl 90 bard and dont remembering how to play it but now i remember the how ty ^^
It's funny how you say bard is about micromanaging, but really, I feel that the standard combo dps classes that I've played are a lot more difficult to manage. Bard lets you be handsoff, and just make you glance down to see what ogcds are up and to keep your dots/songs up every 45 seconds. While with other dps classes, I've found that there's just this process of trying to get combos right and messing them up and such that are a lot more hotbar centric.
@@PubstarHero Right, but missing a proc for a few seconds as a bard isn't as bad as if you press the wrong button as say ninja and you lose a mudra stack. Or you break your combo, etc.
You use the songs in the following order: Wanderer's Minuet Mage's Ballad Army's Paeon Radiant Finale is used in the beginning along with Raging Strikes and Battle Voice (Raging Strikes => Battle Voice => Radiant Finale), and then every 2 (ish) minutes when you circled through the songs and are back to Wanderer's Minuet. Barrage is used during WM as well. Apex Arrow/Blast Arrow is used twice: Once during WM (provided you have a full gauge, or at least 80) while all your buffs are up, AND once during Mage's Ballad when you have at least 80 in your gauge, and preferably before you reach the 30s mark, so you have more time to fill it to 100 until you play WM again. If everything is done correctly (as correct as it can get with a Bard), it will all line up.
Hello, I had a few AOE questions (coming from WoW). 1. when is it better to just aoe, skipping all single targets attacks (minus the one Dot'd up) (2+ or 3+ targets) 2. do i DOT more then one of the mobs in an aoe group, how many and do I try to keep those dots out, or just keep one set of dots up? Thank you
AOE use: every class has a different number of enemies aoe is better than single target on, and the way you figure it out is by multiplying the aoe potency until its higher than a single use of your basic ST skill. so if the ST skill is, for the same of example, 200 potency, and your aoe is 80 potency, then your aoe is better on 3+ enemies, since 80 x 2 = 160, but 80 x 3= 240. every class is calculated like this. but, if you hate math, its ok if you just use aoe on 3+ enemies regardless. dungeons are pretty forgiving about this. 2. you can use DOTs until the tank stops pulling more enemies, at which point you should swap to aoe. you do not need to upkeep the dots generally as it rarely takes more than 45 seconds to kill an enemy. its up to you though, again, its forgiving.
You will want to shoot for three or more targets for the AOE attacks to have better efficiency. And it is better to prioritize your AOE's over your dots so long as you can get three or more targets right away, otherwise maybe drop a single dot until three targets are rounded up.
For radiant finally you use it at the 2 min windows always so in the opening you use it with 1 charge since you only use one song, then go thought your normal rotation and then when wanderers minuet and battle voice are up again use radiant finally, since you just used wanderers you just get the third song.
Interesting. I picked Archer as a new player and heard it goes to Bard at lvl 30 and it looks pretty fun, I like how archer plays now but definitely will be leveling this job all the way so I can do other jobs a bit easier for leveling wiss