meh most of the times , for song only ballads and battle voice + paeon are useful other than that ur job is to dps till tp reach 0 .

You're a bad player if you don't use bvoice requiem when a MNK or BLM is in your party.

2 dragoon and 1 BLM , i will used paeon rather than requiem .

I don't know why some people playing arc/brd still say they are lacking in dps..
I'm always the 2nd top enmity or 3rd if there's an off tank.

Don't be fooled by that singing song -20% damage. We hit quick, we have a few offensive skill not on the GCD, not to mention triggering DoT's crit for multiple bloodletter + heavy shot combo.

Bards are dps machine, that's a fact. Especially getting cross class skills from pgl and drg.
Only cons (in my opinion) is the useless healing limit break. we'll have sch or whm in party, if they're dead, it's done. our LB wont save anyone.

There's another point to note, brd will only have high burst of damage every 90s or so. our burst come from blood for blood, internal relase, raging strike, hawk eyes, barrage. brd can provide very consistent overall damage.

Anyway, that's my opinion. I absolutely love this job.

DGNs have Invigorate and unless the fight is drawn out you're wasting your own DPS and your own time.
But sure, you can run Paeon. Let me know how it goes when you do this on Titan HM lol.

i got carried through* Titan HM so ?

fixed.
To other bards, don't listen to his bad advice. DGNs most definitely DO NOT need paeon up in anything before BCoC. If you're running paeon at the beginning of a fight instead of requiem, you're wasting your time and considering that you regen your MP back to full well before anyone needs paeon/ballad, why aren't you using requiem to buff your own FA and WB damage?

Requiem is a ridiculous DPS increase for the whole party if done right in a proper composition. A good bard uses all three songs anyway.

hmm not sure if this is out of topic but which field of craft is useful for bard?

i know u need a carpenter to craft and meld ur relic weapon

what skill rotation do you guys usually use?
I usually start with venom bite but I read on other forums they would start with straight shot first

So... Why aren't people using "Rain of death" against boss or mob? is because of tp cost?

yep, and very low damage. only use it when ansolutely necessary lol

is it bad if i use it whenever the status effect is down, especially on boss? i find that the debuff quite good.

anyway still good its good for farming lol. wide volley too.