No one's excited about the update? F yeah! Requiem 7!Follow

Critical Defense Bonus @ Level 80!

Foe Requiem VII: BRD Lv.76
Army's Paeon VI: BRD Lv.78
Knight's Minne V: BRD Lv.80

You're being sarcastic, aren't you?

Let's review.

Requiem VII: Useless in most endgame (barring salvage). Worthwhile mobs are usually immune to it. Pretty lame unless SV'd, and even then.
Army's Paeon VI: Great. Another tier. Whoo. Rarely used. (Good bards know when and where. If you don't know, don't use it.)
Knight's Minne V: HAH. Ahahahahaha. Hah. You mean your tanks aren't screaming for marches?

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Your career bards are going to be excited if and only if one of the following occurs:
New tiers of essential songs (Ballad, March, Minuet, Madrigal).
New augmentable instruments that have bonuses to more than one song, and/or skill bonuses attached to existing instruments.
New songs, like a party buff that increases magic acc/atk (girl can dream).

Edit: SE sez BRD gets nothing for five levels of grind. Except maybe increased skill levels and new uber-march tiers for those that have the merits/gear! Yay.

Edited, Jun 20th 2010 3:30pm by Ezzelin

I think we're getting Requiem 7 only to keep Requiem as the spell with the highest number of available tiers.

(The patch is also releasing Cure 6 to tie with our current 6 tiers of Requiem)

Knight's Minne: BRD update that is actually a BLU update in disguise. :P

this was a well-constructed post and topic. 8/10. lol those 3 songs. SE should have put the cherry on top with another useless scop's operetta tier or something.

So I didn't see anything yet, but was there any mention of expansion of the Magian system to include Gjallarhorn or Aegis?

Yea this wasn't a great update for BRD (not even any good equipment) but I'm ok with it only because it seems on par for what Lv.75-80 should hold. 85-90 we should see a new Minuet and Madrigal, and maybe if we're lucky sometime in our 90s Massacre Elegy and a new March.

Mesmeric Cape makes me /cheer but everything else makes my inventory cry. Anyone remember Mazurka tanking? I feel like SE was thinking this.

"Oh, let's let those brd's tank with Mazurka again. Minne V and Crit defense bonus for u!"

Little did they know that 5+ years ago they nerfed it. :)

With others getting more +movement gear and abilities (Bolter's Roll), it would have been nice to see them either alter current songs or give us a new mazurka that works in dungeons.