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May be I am wrong or not paying attention in the past... But I seem to notice there has been a large increase of playing bard recently on our server.

Is this related to change of experience point caps? Or just people finally realize Bard rocks ;p?

There never really was a large population of bards, nobody really wanted them, Guys want macho DD's, so theres about 97% of our server, >.>

hmm...off topic, shouldnt your title be queen of bards?

if there has been an increase in bards, i havnt noticed. i think it is cool though, bards are a great job and there should be more.

I haven't noticed any increase in BRDs. If there was making parties would be simple, but I'm usually stuck for several hours trying to find a BRD or a RDM. PLDs though seemed to have jumped up in number, as they have become a dime a dozen.

Bard's suck, i dont know what you all are raving at. Bards are slaves, not much fun, but who cares! they make your pt better! Bard is not a very self-satisfying job. Ranger says omg i did 2500, bard goes omg I landed Elegy! which would you prefer?

Usually a 2500 sidewinder kills the mob, plus at lvl 75 Rangers have Utsusemi Ni to keep them from dying. At the time our tank was uber insane almost matching the rangers and drk in damage. Statues rool for xp, low defense ! but high attack ; ; Chain 5 with only drk and nin as DD? (Yes, please!) but yeah at other times doing TOO much dmg isn't good, thats why there is Trick Attack :D
Bards get thier share of dying while trying to sleep links too.

I remember getting resists around lvl 50ish and they were horrible on Processionares until I got a light staff. But it's not uncommon to have a few links here and there especially when there are lots of parties competing for mobs; getting an extra and sleeping is nice option. Like in Boyahda tree fighting Darters i've seen up to 5 xp pts there at once. Despite what people think Bard songs do build alot of hate, ive died plenty at Fafnir for casting too many debuffs. Or when you cast Carnage Elegy when the puller missed his Ranged Attack on the pull and you get owned lol. Bards earn their xp, having to run around all crazy is lots of work, especially having to stand in EXACTLY the right place to hit the pld with ballad and not other melee, most bards can agree this is a major pain! but some of us enjoy being able to enact such bardly precision(Q_Q). You either love bard or you hate it, although i hate my lack of melee capability I do enjoy being able to make other people own.

I have a BRD in my SP, and she's great. I usually tend to mess up the positioning though, stupid mobs won't go where I tell them lol...

I think i would prefer saying "OMG i landed elegy AND requim on a IT++++ mob" than 2500 damage...

Then again im a galka bard so... im a chr *****

I eat cavier for gods sake >< cus i dont have opo opo crown :(

Maybe banigaru can help me with getting last pieces wyvern skull and lucky egg (has a nice friendly thf too that wants both aswell)



















however there is nothing worse for a party than a bad bard nothing compares to this... IMO. Brd = less downtime not more ><

correct me if im wrong, but a couple months ago mary's horn sold for 40k tops? Now it sells for 100k+?

Actually, Mary's horn was around 150k for the longest time. I dont ever check it because i have all my horns but I remember first starting out it was only 30-50 k in bastok and it was 100k in jeuno for a very long time. Honestly I think this horn is way over rated. I usually forget to put this in my inv from my mog house and I never have a problem sleeping things. I really haven't noticed a large increase in number of bards but I do know quite a few. Many people only level bard to 40 for bcnm when i think that there are enough bards that doing that is silly. I personally dislike BCNM40 and the Sacrificial Chamber bc 60 is much better. Also BC70 kicks much booty.