#I'll just play a bard

[femmet-selch]

It’s a fair question.

Husband: for Valentine's day, I'm going to run a one-off Pathfinder campaign for you.

Me: Comedy, romance or horror?

Hubby: Think "Eldritch abominations."

Me: ...So comedy, romance or horror?

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Started a new book series, and has been a journey...an Odyssey, if you will.

[hyakunana]

Durge, the Dark Urge — but make it a bard forest gnome girl named Imbrie

[awesomechocolatesauce]

One of these days, I'll learn to stop getting upset and scroll past a bad take of Astarion and the blatant bi/pan erasure of them, but that day isn't today.

I also don't see it happening tomorrow.

Anyway, here's a screenshot of my female human bard and the canonically pansexual vampire elven man who adores her.

[juls-art]

A hit n miss page of me trying to do some draws of Anotos' guardian,his dream bard, more inline with how his in game model looks. -- *✧Support me!✧*   *✧Tip me for a job well done! ✧*

[ofdarklands]

level 90 at last!

so! about black mage

i've been thinking how to describe playing black mage, and i think the simile i used this morning in chat works well enough:

black mage feels like trying to run with a pot full of boiling water in my hands. with other jobs i feel light and agile, but black mage plays like how seeing emet selch as solus run would feel. look at that guy go. i didn't know spines could do that! you can hear his knees crunch, also

mechanically, it's really not nearly as bad as i feared it to be, even though i don't think i'd managed to figure out a decent rotation myself on the first or even third try so, thank you internet people for the guides!

anyway, the boiling pot wheezing trot sensation is not unique to it, though it is the most noticeable of all the casting classes i've played. i'd say rdm>summoner>whm>>blm in increasing awkwardness

so, while i acknowledge that blm is an optimizer's paradise to get the Biggest Booms, probably, playing it feels like it's almost fighting against the game instead of flowing with it and due to that it's just not very enjoyable, for me. it's got the same inflexible rotation that makes dragoon my least played class despite it being very canon for mitr'a

and from a physical perspective my fingers are not very precise on the keyboard, so i tend to fuck up the routine by accident quite often and then i have to correct it or start over and eeeehhhhhh. and my can't-remember-to-click-despair situation. dunno what the problem is with that one, to be quite honest. brain said no i guess :( that one's on me

woops this got longer than i thought so have a readmore

the good:

aforementioned big damages, when i manage to keep the rotation on track. sadly not as much of a plus for me, personally, but it's relevant still

against one enemy, getting immersed in the rotation can be pretty fun, until the 5 aoes come, the boss leaves the arena, and i sigh deeply while creakily running around, not casting

lasso spell goes brrr. it's got a very funny sound effect, in my heart

the 'return to leylines' spell is also great. i've used it mostly to instantly dodge when there's more than 2 sequential aoes. you can play around with these two spells

shoutout to the simplified job gauge for letting you actually understand anything about it. sure it's 3.5 things to keep track of, but for 2 of them you get informed about their readiness with convenient sounds and flashing borders so whatever

big staff to hit people with

cone hat funny

big lb meteorites. very good very cackling

the bad:

moving feels heavy, even when using the instant cast abilities. i keep lagging behind the group even in normal content, and sometimes clicking the right person to yeet to can be a bit hard in alliances or wall to walls. this class needs to do some cardio

clicking fire IV 3 times, then 1 fire I then fire IV 3 more times is. very boring. sorry. rotation 40 years long and rigid like the brutalism. the funnest parts are the thunder procs and the ice phase before going back to fire and the occasional instant cast. oh you sneezed and misclicked and dropped your fire badge thingies on the floor? sorry idiot you get to start over from the top, but sadder this time

this one i only noticed here at the end, but i feel it's very important, maybe more than the rotation: the best and biggest animations it has are the ones for the ice spells, which you use the least. xenoglossy, foul and flare are also good. amplifier, manafont and triple cast feel nice and dramatic to use. paradox i just got but it's also nice with the color mix. the rest i don't even remember, had to go cast them on a dummy. it's fireballs and fire columns it's all fireballs! the blm animations have a lot of boom but they need more heft, if that makes sense? more flying shit going from you to the target, shit shrapneling from the target, rings of fire, fiery eldritch runes, anything. if rdm can shoot 50 explosive roses at a guy for some reason and drk can summon shields of runes, blm can do something fancy also. casting a finisher skill called 'despair' should look like i'm sucking their souls out through a straw

also more casting positions. summoner has a lot and they're pretty different! they got floating symbols and shit. blm has 'slightly crouched' and 'staff held high' in variation 1 and 2, and that's about it from what i can tell besides the selfbuff ones. add some evil runes at least. the paradox wide armed one (i think you float a little?) is a good addition though

anyway, final verdict: it's a good class, but it's very rigid and inflexible to get Big Damages, which is not an exciting exchange, for me. i prefer to be nimble and do less damage but have a more varied and forgiving rng based rotation. also more utility skills! i miss peloton or having a group shield or heal, or even rdm's rez; makes me feel actually useful instead of being just a giant cone hat that produces flamethrower on command. i don't think i'll play it too often, i'm afraid, even though it's a perfectly alright class, and i'm sure i'll get better with time

HOWEVER. if dawntrail allows blm to throw meteorites outside of lbs i might reconsider. they can be small! even magical molotov cocktails if we must. but i want physical flamming objects to hit my enemies and i want to see the animations do that with some flair. just ole fire and spite booms and a couple icicles is not enough. i want to flatten them

[warlordfelwinter]

i complained about fiver needing new pants and actual insane person (affectionate) @chasing-kitsune spent like 3 million gil and bought me an entire new outfit of high level gear so now we're in fiver's jean jacket era

[self-shipper-snowdrop]

i see u r playing bg3. may we hear abt your Tav(s)

OH my MCs? Sure of course!!!! I don't have screenshots of them right now but here's their information;

1 - Bronwen Hecate Everwinter / High Elf / Sorcerer [silver dragonic ancestry] / Sage background

She's focused on offence from the back of the group, especially picking off enemies that threaten the front-liner of the group, Karlach.

2 - Lune Temperance / Mephistopheles Tiefling / Bard / Urchin background

Support-focused college of valour. Namely heals allies while doing extra dmg to enemies. She has "dissonant whispers" which is an awesome spell for dmg and frightening enemies.

3 - Wisteria A'Dararn / Seladrine Drow / Cleric of Eilistraee / Acolyte background

This is my game I'm playing with my dad! I'm controlling my healer girl here, as well as Astarion, our designated best boy rogue. He's playing a githyanki sorcerer and controlling Karlach, our one non-squishy lol

3 - Quinn Ze'lah / Githyanki / Ranger / Outlander background

I made this file because after seeing how characters reacted to Lae'zel I was desperate to see how they'd react to a githyanki player. I have not been disappointed XD

4 - Hel Kleio Doavae / Half-Drow / Rogue / Criminal background

World is not super reactive to a half-drow but tbh, I love my loser anyway. She is a canonical menace to society <33333

I have some more plans because, genuinely, I love this game and how responsive it is to the player and their choices even just in character creation so much I may be here for the rest of my days.

I also have Lolth-sworn drow planned to see how that goes, and my own dark urge character [a tiefling named Mercy] planned for later. I'm loving it all so much!!!!

[scribblingface]

the thing about multiclassing is that every single level you have to ask yourself if what you'd get from level 1 in a different class is worth more to you than what you get next on your own level progression and this is why I'm five levels into paladin still saying 'maybe I'll multiclass as a sorcerer'

[np5enkidu]

arknights needs to release more sui siblings, suiblings if you will, and one of them better be a healer

[blujayonthewing]

AHAHAH HOW ARE YOU SO FUCKING SMALL

[alphascorpiixx]

Now that I've tried out all of the different roles in ffxiv I want to share my favs and my thoughts on them

First of all, red mage my beloved. For a long time I was content with just watching a playthrough of the game bc an mmo would eat my time. then I watched a guide for the red mage and instantly knew I had to play this job. I love red mage and the joint caster/melee playstyle. I don't have verraise yet though and I feel bad every time the healer wipes

I'm definitely best at dps and I like caster a lot and melee not so much. I started out as arcanist and summoner is my next fav caster after red mage. I switched to thaumaturge halfway through the arr msq specifically for the Heartless staff but haven't touched black mage since I finished arr. the cast times are just too long for me to truly enjoy the job but I do like the fire/ice switching

The only melee dps I've played so far is dragoon which is . . . fine. I wish i liked dragoon more bc I love FF4/Kain Highwind and I want to see Estinien's storyline. but playing the job in ffxiv isn't as fun for me as other jobs. I feel like I should try another melee since I do like the melee aspects of tank and red mage. maybe samurai bc sword

speaking of tank, I just started the dark knight quests and love it a lot. I'm still nervous about tanking in dungeons but that means I just need to do it more for practice. I tried marauder but haven't even upgraded it to warrior yet but I have dark knight now

As for healer I'm very surprised at how much I enjoy this role. I only tried it bc scholar came free with arcanist and wanted to at least give it a shot. I still don't quite understand the best healing optimization and fairy placement but I haven't had a party wipe! (I have accidentally let the dps die bc of my laser focus on keeping the tank alive 😅)

And I just realized I haven't done any physical ranged dps jobs yet oops. I'll probably do machinist rather than archer/bard bc I'm tired of starting at level one. And I want a gun

[doctorweebmd]

coming out of my baldurs gate 3 delirium (aka i am working a night shift and can't physically play it. at work.) to say that horikoshi. horikoshi when i GET YOU. you are NOT leaving izuku with no quirk and no arms. i am in your walls

[somelazyassartist]

Fuck it maybe I will multiclass Kora into a class that objectively sucks!! We're a heist team it's not like we do much combat anyways maybe I'll just do it for the Flavor of it All, you know, to be a Silly Little Guy.

[bhaalsdeepbat]

i have two family members who want to run honor mode with me. i'm going to be playing a gloomstalker assassin durge (this is what I made V for), and will be carrying my brother and cousin through the game bc they didn't realize how hard I've been making tactician for myself for the challenge

they intend to have my character do all the talking, which would be great if I wasn't going to be the least rizzed up of the group. I told them we were certainly going to be losing Arabella and there would be no talking the Ogre down lol

[waywardly-we-go]

I was going to do a full proper complete Cyberpunk playthrough before going back to BG3 but I'm absolutely jonesing for it and finally came up with a character concept for my Gale romance run soooo

Not only that but I'm jumping into mods lol