Comments from the Devs

[Grey Jorildyn]

Bards have been a damage class in D&D since forever. MMOs have been behind all this time *snicker*

[Hyan]

only one missing is Marauder and I don't see him becoming a bard

That'd be awesome.

If the DRK design is anything to go by, Dragoon AF should look pretty intense Lucavi. Don't rule it out yet.

[Alkar]

Well Instruments in FF have always been considered Ranged "weapons" so it kinda makes sense lol.
With "Evil Armor" confirmed to be the look of a job I guess Marauder> Dark Knight is kinda confirmed. Ranger will probably show up in the future but I admit Bard is a nice surprise.

Edit: Now that I think about it Archer and Bard use different weapons so how is it going to work? I suppose they'll move Bows to the Ranged slot and add Daggers/Knives to the main hand. They did mention a close range auto-attack for Archer so it would make sense.

[Lucavi]

Pretty simple fix for that, Alkar: every type of bard "song" comes with its own pre-set instrument. You click the ability, the bard whips out the instrument and plays. You never have to "equip" the instrument; bard just pulls it out of hammerspace like everyone else does for everything. Have an assortment of animations with each instrument, like lutes, flutes, and the like. The only two weapons the bard needs is the daggers for melee and the bow for any ranged attack that isn't directly an ability activated by the player.

They don't need to follow the XI method of having even more equipment to gear-swap out with macros for each song. Streamline the process and have the bard automatically possess the needed instruments to perform the songs.

[Lordender]

That is some pretty interesting info, heres to hoping all of that happens before 2015.

[Kensaki]

From what I've gathered its a supposed leaked article from the august 2011 connect-on. So don't get to exited about brd yet.

[Gokulo]

From what I've gathered its a supposed leaked article from the august 2011 connect-on. So don't get to exited about brd yet.

Why ?.?

[Balb]

^ Stop acting suprised. Too many positive posts = trolls not doing their jobs.

[Kensaki]

Why ?.?

Cause *gasp* it may not be true.

[Gokulo]

Might sound stupid, but most leaks like this one tend to be true, lol. But yeah, of course there's a chance it might not be true, just your post made me think you had some other reasons to say that.

[Alkar]

Pretty simple fix for that, Alkar: every type of bard "song" comes with its own pre-set instrument. You click the ability, the bard whips out the instrument and plays. You never have to "equip" the instrument; bard just pulls it out of hammerspace like everyone else does for everything. Have an assortment of animations with each instrument, like lutes, flutes, and the like. The only two weapons the bard needs is the daggers for melee and the bow for any ranged attack that isn't directly an ability activated by the player.

They don't need to follow the XI method of having even more equipment to gear-swap out with macros for each song. Streamline the process and have the bard automatically possess the needed instruments to perform the songs.

Oh I didn't mean excessive and pointless gear swap. I was just thinking about the Auto-attack comment and Bard being the job for Archer.
I don't want a copy of XI's Bard, that job was nothing exciting. I just found the combo odd when every other class/job used the same kind of weapon.
Would be nice to have unique melodies playing for each song you perform unlike in XI where it was only based on the instrument used.

[Kaylia]

Bards have been a damage class in D&D since forever. MMOs have been behind all this time *snicker*

I don't know, but Minstrel in lotro are pretty damn fun to play offensively (or with any spec). It's a buffer/healer/dd with all the tools you can think of (feint death, steath, mana wall, cc).


I doubt they can pull it off as well in FFXIV, but I can hope so.

[Lucavi]

Oh I didn't mean excessive and pointless gear swap. I was just thinking about the Auto-attack comment and Bard being the job for Archer.
I don't want a copy of XI's Bard, that job was nothing exciting. I just found the combo odd when every other class/job used the same kind of weapon.
Would be nice to have unique melodies playing for each song you perform unlike in XI where it was only based on the instrument used.

Bard's default auto attack would probably be a bow at range and swipe swipe in the deadzone. If they do it right, though, a bard's true damage should come through its songs (think Cadence in Rift and a few other games like LotRO), with a shot or two from the bow while on the move or in-between skills.

[Biggie]

Bard's default auto attack would probably be a bow at range and swipe swipe in the deadzone. If they do it right, though, a bard's true damage should come through its songs (think Cadence in Rift and a few other games like LotRO), with a shot or two from the bow while on the move or in-between skills.

Considering ARC auto attack will not use bows, I doubt that BRD auto attack will.

[jwang]

How about MRD as BRD? I'm going far out left field here, but bards use instrument, guitars are instruments, and guitars are also referred to as "axes". It would be hilarious if this became true, but I would so play the kind of bard that riffs while chopping people up. Take that "heavy metal" to the extreme!

[Gadritan]

Beefcake The Mighty approves.

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...r-beefcake.jpg

[Alkar]

How about MRD as BRD? I'm going far out left field here, but bards use instrument, guitars are instruments, and guitars are also referred to as "axes". It would be hilarious if this became true, but I would so play the kind of bard that riffs while chopping people up. Take that "heavy metal" to the extreme!

With the "Evil Armor" being the look of one of the jobs (obviously Dark Knight) I doubt Marauder having Bard as a job is possible.

[Biggie]

How about MRD as BRD? I'm going far out left field here, but bards use instrument, guitars are instruments, and guitars are also referred to as "axes". It would be hilarious if this became true, but I would so play the kind of bard that riffs while chopping people up. Take that "heavy metal" to the extreme!

I don't even..

[Jak]

Eh nevermind

[Antithesis]

Bard you say? Well it looks like Ill be playing this game soon.