5 Reasons Why You Should Play Bard/BRD (Archer)

"Tomorrow will take us away far from home,
No one will ever know our names,
But the bards' songs will remain"
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Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
0:21 Disclaimer
0:32 1st Reason
1:40 2nd Reason
2:40 3rd Reason
3:52 4th Reason
4:47 5th Reason
5:30 Some Disadvantages
6:53 Closing Thoughts
#FFXIV #Endwalker #BardSong

[@philipp5756]

What I like most about Bard is that it's an archer class that isn't build with pets in mind. I don't like those aspects about many other ranger/archer type classes in other games

[@zarknall]

that's actually what I don't like about it lol where's my wolf/eagle

[@kobrraful]

The pet aspect is cool, but my favorite archer is marksmanship hunter from WoW. I really hope one day we get a true ranger in the game once they start adding jobs that share weapons

[@Magee25]

@@zarknall you like pets try summoner lol

[@zarknall]

@@Magee25 man, summoner is not a true pet character imo lol the summon don't even have an AI, they just buff your attacks and use some stylish moves instead of yourself, but you pull the trigger they are all brain dead

[@dumbitc11]

@@zarknall i completely agree, we are missing a true pet job. a beast master job where we can tame some of the wildlife we come across on our adventures would be really cool, and a full dot job like a warlock would also be nice

[@wyndia4151]

I chose Archer/Bard as my first cuz I like more supportive classes in other games but I also didn't wanna be a Healer cuz I was just starting off. Bard is still my main job.

[@Dave934]

Same exact reasonings, and also I love the aesthetic of the bow

[@MBEG89]

Same

[@stevieblunder2656]

Props for Blind Guardian in the intro .

[@DesperiusFFXIV]

🤘

[@213fenix]

As a bard keeping track of the stuff along with mechanics definitely can feel overwhelming at times. I just wish we could set audio cues for more stuff other than just an attack or two

[@ruujvt]

I started FF as ARC/BRD but overtime stuck with it as my main ever since. I'm beyond neurodivergent and my brain doesn't work like others, so I'm small brained when it comes to combat mechanics. Bard is the easiest for me to follow because of that. It's a few simple things that I don't feel like I have to practice muscle memory for. The way you explained everything in this video is something I appreciate greatly, because I've dealt with so many people laughing at me for playing a bard because 'not enough damage' or 'bard's not a real class', which hurts more than they realize. I struggle trying to learn other jobs so I stick with what I know...and when I've created other characters and selected ARC/BRD again...those same people tell me "Of course you pick Bard again...when will you ever play another class.." I wish there wasn't some dumb negative stigma against Bard...it's a fun class for me that I can really understand and enjoy..

[@escape421521]

Me with bard at 90 watching this video

[@escape421521]

“Maybe I’ll play bard”

[@faloel]

As a guitarist and a bow enthusiast having bard as my main was a natural choice. I´m so glad they buffed the class aswell.

[@seyahtan24]

Bard is fun. No pressure. You ain't competing for top dps spot because you are the reason why others get top dps. You are in a support role. I love that. Also love my Bard UWU weapon because it is the legit bard weapon. It's the only one with a harp attached to it.

[@renmage2311]

oh man, The Bards' Song intro was a good choice lol

[@Barryschitpeas42069]

Only thing it's missing is some kind of war horn, but like the eso emote, not necessarily tuned but super loud. Was always super cool to pop in large PvP fights or big raids

[@Oceanborn712]

I started FFXIV exactly a month ago, with Bard as my main job and I'm really enjoying it. I have to say, though... early leveling is SUPER DULL. The fun starts only at around level 60 when you finally get a suite of proper skills. Before then it's basically just spamming one button with the occasional use of something that got off cooldown or needs to be reapplied every 30-45 seconds. Now that I'm getting into content where I actually can use my higher level abilities, I'm super happy with my class choice. However, it's still super weird to me why Bard is using a bow for their weapon, even after having played Ragnarok Online for 20 years, where Bard and Dancer also base on Archer.

[@malbogia8003]

Thats a pretty accurate statement for most jobs. Lvl 50-60 are where things start to get interesting in most cases. Bards using bow is a lore thing, mostly. Fairly interesting history

[@TheShinblast]

Bard can get pretty cluttered once you reach 90, so don't worry about that. But yeah, I started playing Bard because my main class in RO is bard, and they use instruments. It's indeed weird to see Bard still using bow here.

[@psysahji]

Guess I got lucky by choosing this as my first job. I think it's one of the best choices for learning fights as a dps because you're not even that heavily punished, even if you mess up your rotation a little. Key is mechanics > rotation, at least for me. ^-^ Nice video!

[@CubicleJ0ckey]

I always love your music choices Despi

[@christophbolte1672]

What I most like is the using of Blind Guardian. Oh, and Bard is ok as well :)

[@valala2987]

I haven t really played bard before but this sounds really interesting and I want to try it now!

[@vayalond7203]

N°1 reason to play Bard is the same as Red Mage, you do Damage, have a good support potentiel AND do all of this with a Style level (in animations and glams) other jobs can't even dream of

[@umbralp2195]

Tbh i dont like bard animations :( It Just looks wierd to pull string all the Way behind your head XD

[@zaboolovescodex]

Bard was my first job in 2.0 back in 2013 and I always find myself going back to it.

[@yaphetbruce9321]

What glamour pieces are you using? It looks really great on your character.

[@PWReviews]

Just started playing a few days ago as an archer. Loving the class, i do still keep looking at other choices now and again but something about the archer is just fun. I used to play Captain in lotro and I feel like the bard works in a similar way with support abilities. Im interested in the viper aswell when it releases. Looks like fun!

[@genisay]

Even with the changes that they made to bard in EW, I still main it. I just have way too much fun playing this Job, even at lower lvls. I actually started as a caster class and took up archer just for the heck it early in ARR, and it stuck. I've played something like 90% of the game as bard. XD I do however struggle with using the performance function with a keyboard, partially due to having small hands, so I may eventually look into getting a plug-in keyboard so that I can actually practice playing these songs with more success.

[@voodoochild5440]

Immediatly recognised the 'Bard song'. Nice!

[@not8Pepe]

i started this game with bard like 1 mon ago, and having ton of fun

[@justrenderin1279]

Okay so I wasn't sure what to expect when coming in here. But I am FLOORED by the BRD rendition of "The Bard Song" By The Blind Guardians. It's been a favorite of mine for years.

[@atheist101]

I was looking for a class similar to the unholy dk in wow (back in wrath and cata) and this seems the closest. I loved setting up my dots and then spreading them to all enemies and watching the dps meter sky rocket. I was getting numbers leagues above everyone else, until pandas came out. I love dots, dot management and support roles so this will be fun for me. I have another character as a black mage for my top dps role to satisfy my love of large numbers.

[@kaybroughton4909]

I LOVE my Bard never mained anything else in 6 years. It has had its bad times and gone through some changes and other jobs stole some of our utility but I still love how mobile it is.

[@Coronathus]

As someone reaching lvl 90 without even finishing 5.0, this is exactly what I needed.

[@bobach6083]

Love the mist forest outro music man.

[@craigpridemore5831]

Even before Endwalker I have loved Bard because I don't EVER lose an attack because I have to move (unlike my main Summoner). I call it the 'run and gun' class.

[@Esteb86]

Started as a bard at the end of SHB, and then changed to paladin right before EW to skip long queues. I then leveled rpr, sge, the other tanks, Sam, and then whm. Finally came back to the bard and I missed it. But I find myself staring at my skill bars way too much. It's easy right now is most content, because I know the fights, but I could see this being a pain in new content.

[@emilymcpherson6564]

Is that background song Blind Guardian?? Good taste!!

[@amethist6774]

your bard glam looks great.

[@s.t.5993]

Now you all know, the bards and their songs, when hours have gone by , I close my eyes, in a world far away , we may meet again, but now hear my song….

[@malbogia8003]

I was considering leveling a bard AND wondering what job had the best dots. Now I know.

[@RikkuChaser]

Thanks for the video! Could anyone please tell me te fashion used in it?

[@Draxel]

Man, I feel like the animation for shooting the bow is really due for some modernization 😄

[@akito6572]

Your Bard looks awesome

[@elvangulley3210]

What's bard level of complexity compared to mech I'm not looking for super complex jobs like gunbreakwr monk ninja or sage

[@TheShinblast]

"why do you play bard?" my child, let me tell you a story about a poem... A Poem of Bragi...

[@Josephhyuga]

nice sword of the stranger clip

[@jingo8407]

That ronfaire bgm

[@Oneofthecoments]

I’d love it if you pinned your glam in future videos. I really like this one but not sure what a few pieces are. Anyone know what the top is?

[@icessoup]

would love to know too, i guess that's his trill of the game, to have something cool to show

[@Blazingbeard]

Your glam in the scenes with count Edmont looks a bit like the female Bard from the Witcher 3 (forgot her name; update: Priscilla). She plays a role in the MSQ of the Witcher 3. Nice glams! I started my FF14 yourney with Bard. Switched to DRG when in between ARR and HW. Was already lvl 55 with Bard and didn't want HW to be to easy. Also Estinien looked so badass. And I grew tired of waiting for MSQ prog to get new skills for Bard. Continued with DRG with MSQ (also DRK). Finished EW with DRG. Love dragonfire dive, but I just don't like DRG rotation and not bursting in opener. Love NIN now (thanks for your NIN guide!). And will eventually continue my now lvl 60 Bard (love Idleshire Michael Jackson ish Bard gear).

[@umbralp2195]

Her name is Priscilla :)

[@brandolf6753]

I would say anyone that has a love for song has a love for bard ❤

[@jellokhat]

Your glam is amazing, what’s the name of that body piece though?

[@DesperiusFFXIV]

Scorpion Harness from Eureka

[@jellokhat]

@@DesperiusFFXIV I forgot to add a timestamp to which one I was talking about, I meant the one at 2:44. Sorry!

[@danielmcnabb9634]

New here can bard use like 2 swords or daggers or 2handed sword? Or is the bard always a archer? How's thay work...like could I be a summoner with a big axe ?

[@GTFrostbite]

Each job is limited to a specifc weapon type in FF14, so bards always use bows, warriors always use 2h axes, Ninjas always use 2 daggers, etc

[@zombieslayer2016]

bard does not feel like a dot class in my opinion for one reason, no aoe dots or ways to spread dots as an aoe ( think bane from summoner pre endwalker) so they feel kinda pointless during a pull compared to your aoe skills if i am getting this wrong by all means correct me as i have sorely missed having a dot class since summoners rework but at the moment bard feels like the winner by default in terms of being the dot class only because it actually acknowledges the class has dots

[@BlackWhiteShadow]

Can some1 tell, what set is used here?

[@cionm7077]

whats the top she is using in the thumbnail and vid?

[@ROTTONKANDY]

Scorpion Harness

[@nyappynen]

I just wish bard was separate from archer, as I like playing archers, but bard aesthetic does not really work for me.

[@laughingseagull000]

Same. The whole “strumming your bowstring” thing is stupid. If you do that IRL, it doesn’t sound like anything musical.

[@MissEbet99]

Elezen + Bard = Rockstar xD. My 1st job and still my main, tho the GNB job is growing on me

[@W4lhalla]

Well I have the opposite oponion of the repertoire mechanic change. It quite often felt very terrible when you were on a lower level content nand your DoTs would only trigger once or twice the entire boss fight. And while constant DoT triggers on trash pulls were amazing, the moment you had no enemies, your song was completely useless and some trash fights were like " Fight one group of enemies then the next group spawns and you have to apply everything again". Now the whole thing is more consistent and when everything is dead or the boss is not there right now, I still get something out of my songs. And I'm not deaf anymore. Overall I like EW Bard more than ShB Bard As for the DoTs in generell, I'm not sure where SE wants to go with them. Right now it doesn't feel like a DoTot class. More like a physical ranged class with excellent group support and DoTs feel a bit like an afterthought. If Bard is also supposed to be a DoT class then using them should have some pay off. Perhaps something like this " Using Pitch Perfect on an enemy with both DoTs makes Pitch Perfect stronger" " Using Blood Letter on an enemy with both DoTs while under the effect of Mage's Ballad shaves off some of the cooldown of the Blood Letter" " Using Empyreal Arrow on an enemy while under the effect of Army's Paeon with both DoTs gives access to one additional repertoire stack up until a certain number "

[@zirilan3398]

Seeing that dots are slowly getting removed and BRD still can't spread their dots like SMN could in SHB, imo it's save to assume that BRD will lose their dots completly in 1 or 2 expansions. At the current state of the Job they are complete obsolete, even Sidewinder doesn't have a dot-scaling anymore. I'd say keep them on Archer but don't take them into BRD just like with Bio on current Arcanist but not SMN

[@TheRyiah]

1:29 bow glam name pls !!

[@darkenvyy7452]

Why you should play bard 1. You can play your own music ……..

[@Barryschitpeas42069]

2.bongos 3.bongos 4.bongos

[@DirtRoadRemedy]

RPR next!

[@Fojenstein3D]

Bard Song! Blind Guardian!

[@Lancun]

I've been a melee player for so long that BRD being so reliant on all these variables, from procs, to songs, the Soul Gauge, and dots... just blew my brain up. How anyone can do well as a BRD while also paying any attention to mechanics is just beyond me. DNC has all the procs but none of the DoTs, and support which is tied to abilities you were going to use for DPS anyway. Some may not like the more streamlined support design, but it's the only one I can play. And MCH fits like a glove for a melee player to transition to the PhysRanged DPS role. Bard is just...really too cumbersome for me to really jive with.

[@issacehowardjr679]

Bard is my main. And she's a bada**. But the armor is on the meh side of things. Nice looking armor, but she really has to dodge things like crazy. But everyone more than likely is aware of that. I was kinda just say'n. ✌️😎👍😉

[@yanewstepdad1355]

Idk why but i never wanted to play with bard til this video lmao if i wasnt leveling Machinist id give it a try.

[@kaiyo2440]

Honestly gameplay/fun wise mch is way more enjoyable. Personally im leveling bard myself atm and it's really boring outside the burst window.

[@cynicalmanatee]

Bard right now is really unique and nothing else plays like it, but i also wish that SE split bard into a more traditional Bard/Sniper class. My opinion on bard as i have levelled it up is that, it is unique but it feels super busy and crowded as a class. If you look at the bard skills, on one side, you have the songs, Coda, blood letter, and your basic attack. and on the other, your refulgent arrow, Empyreal Arrow, sidewinder, apex arrow, blast arrow, dots and iron jaw. The song side, and the damage side alone can probably be a good basis to build a class around. You can have 1-2 more skills that interact with repertoire, have the songs affect the bard a little bit more, and i would say that is an complete class. On the other side, have refulgent arrow be on a combo basis + 1 more skill, give the "sniper" role some longer channelling abilities and 30s or 60s burst window and that would also fulfill the ranger/bowman fantasy as well.

[@loafbringer]

Blind guardian!

[@fatzlebowski1549]

You're killing me smalls. An arrow to the knee is when you get married dude!

[@dbull620]

The micromanagement aspects of bard are what turned me off from it. It's so easy to lose track of your song rotation and DoT management in the heat of the fight and unfortunately it's not a simple matter to recover from mistakes in those areas.

[@Lancun]

Same. I've been a melee player for so long that BRD being so reliant on all these variables just blew my brain up. DNC has all the procs but none of the DoTs, and support which is tied to abilities you were going to use for DPS anyway. And MCH fits like a glove for a melee player to transition to the PhysRanged DPS role. Bard is just...really too cumbersome for me to really jive with.

[@ItsaMeGo]

I really wish Bard would have strayed closer to the support musician role and focused less on the ranger archetype. Still like the class and it's easily one of the most frantic jobs, but I don't enjoy it as much anymore.

[@camileonico]

Bard ftw

[@clintonruckert8598]

What bow are you using in this vid? can anyone tell me?

[@Em0ct10nsDNM]

High Allagan Composite Bow

[@galdeon]

Bard is a fast paced job with many skills to dmg .sure not the highest but it's so fun and has one of the best bow glams ever : the heavenward relic

[@Allen2142]

Why play bard? To play Blind Guardian's "Bard's Song" in combat and social spaces. 'Nuff said. You're welcome.

[@antilarge7860]

Bard should be a pure healer that has a harp or whatever instrument you want to use. Bow should be a physical dps.

[@jaydee758]

Cuz of all the people you can beat to death hitting someone with a bow hahaha :)

[@antilarge7860]

@@jaydee758 it's just weird that a bard is using a bow. It would be like a warrior using a wand

[@jaydee758]

@@antilarge7860 oh I get it...your #teamspoonybard lolol but I do get what your saying

[@antilarge7860]

@@jaydee758 what is teamspoonybard? I am just more traditional when it goes to job equipment. Its just a opinion

[@jaydee758]

I was referencing the "you spoony bard!" Line from FF4..Edward is the bard in that game and his weapon is a harp :)

[@bakacdaz]

I playing it because I want to do Performance. And I did not playing it too long and I don’t know how to play this job anymore. And personally I think Archer /Bard pretty suck compared to Rouge/Summoner/Scholar and even Alchemist quest is more fun that bard story at least until 50.

[@Falgren]

The Bard class is fun... The Bard story is super boring.

[@KapriiSun]

1. You shouldn't 2. funny music man

[@ACykes]

BRD stands for Bad Ranged DPS

[@RiogaRivera]

NO, delete bard.

[@JungKooksTwin]

5 reasons to play bard... there is NONE. Bard was theee WORST mmo leveling exp i have ever been thru, but the music is dope. I do understand why some people enjoy the job tho i just personally can not stand it.