The Bard songs are broken ..

warr182 · January 2022

At first release .. They worked right I could play the Bard stacking the Songs .. And that made ok DPS my combo was Tailwind Mambo and as soon as I could play next song Ballard of the Hero (15376767 it's hard hard to play in the middle of dodging ) But both songs stacked and did ok DAM ... No More any next song consumes the old song .. And the other At Wills from steel March and Blaze Flamenco are not very good (to slow cast times) My Fix would be PUT it back like it was .. And speed up the 2 other At Wills so they are worth using .. And raise the DPS up a bit .. It's rough typing 15376767 in the middle of battle when any one hit can kill you ... And now because the songs don't stack no reason to do so .. I like the Class Bard but he is my lowest DPS of all my toons .. So Please fix the Class maybe make it easier to play .. Thank you for a Fun Game ..

warr182 · January 2022

I worry after a Day on the forms no one has posted .... Anyone playing the Bard know it's broken yet no one is posting . That is not a passive sign for this game ...

plasticbat · January 2022

Bard is easy to play.

warr182 · January 2022

Yea they are easy and Fun but worse DPS and if you read the songs Ballad of Hero and Witch they say they Stack not replace .. But they replace now ... Bard class needs some work ..

sandukutupu · January 2022

warr182 said:
I worry after a Day on the forms no one has posted .... Anyone playing the Bard know it's broken yet no one is posting . That is not a passive sign for this game ...

I once pointed that out here myself. There was a time when you would drop in and ask a question in the morning and get back on in the evening to find it buried on page 2 of topics. This is looking more like the fewer postings on the Champions forums now. The forums have always been the place for issues, gripes, and never any positive to say about the game, this is not unique to Neverwinter. You can tune into any online game forum and see carbon copy complaints. I have been playing Black Desert and the "General" section of their forums is filled with "You broke my class", "This game is dead", etc..

My husband asked me to log on to the forums and rally the troops... how am I doing?

All games start out huge, like New World last October had something like over half a million people, then they lost 80% by December. I told everyone here that would happen. My husband works for Amazon, he knew they had no future planned content at the time. It was something made to promote the AWS and Lumberyard. I don't play New World but I understand they have a Preview Test Server for players up and running. Will the 80% return? No. If they produce great content maybe more than half will return. The others already found something else to play.

The online games are made up of different factions who come into a game as a Loyalist, Exploratory, or Casual player.

The Loyalist plan to play the game until the game shuts down or they die.
The Casual plays the game once in a while, drops in like your aunt from Seattle.
The Exploratory is here to kick the tires and is all about the new experience.

This last group is the 80% that leave and some might return, if they hear about the new content. Without fresh ideas, the game will degrade faster than ever. This is why I believe the Foundry was so important to Neverwinter. When it ended April, 2019 there was absolutely nothing new here to hold the player's interest between module 16 and module 18. That was from Undermountain (April, 2019) to Avernus (January, 2020). Module 17 was Stardock and if you don't know about it, I am not surprised. You had to beat Undermountain and it was basically a wrapper for Undermountain subsection B.

New content is key to online games. For whatever reason, Cryptic decided to recycle Sharandar for module 20, module 21 added bards but no new content, removed existing content, and that was when I stopped playing the game. I considered myself a Loyalist, I logged in each and every day, I ran events for players, and did my very best to help promote the game. I held a party and gave away all my stuff. All my characters are right where I left them.

I am told by friends who still play, module 22 is more about buying new enchantments, and less about new content. They removed all the old cult of dragon in module 21 to put in new cult of the dragon into module 22. Recycled content yet again, not even a decent story either. So why should the 80% return? This is why these forums are silent.

inumbro · January 2022

warr182 said:
I worry after a Day on the forms no one has posted .... Anyone playing the Bard know it's broken yet no one is posting . That is not a passive sign for this game ...

Noone is posting?

We have posted for a long long time - Alotof the bard bugs have been reported since it was being tested.

Have a look here:

https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter#/discussion/1263776/another-list-of-bard-bugs

That is a HUGE list of bugs the Bard Class is riddled with.

Honestly, just either work around the bugs or reroll another Class. The chance of these bugs ever being fixed are slim to none.

datarider · January 2022

inumbro said:

warr182 said:
I worry after a Day on the forms no one has posted .... Anyone playing the Bard know it's broken yet no one is posting . That is not a passive sign for this game ...
Honestly, just either work around the bugs or reroll another Class. The chance of these bugs ever being fixed are slim to none.

this is sad because the only + in players population last 2 years was the weeks during bard addition

this company is a big pile of hamsters

tchefi · January 2022

As a bard, I find this topic quite inspiring.
Maybe each of us, bards, should compose a song about our songs being broken, and make a big charity concert in the Moonstone Mask to raise funds for the F.U.C.

What the F.U.C. ? The "Fellowship of the Unbreakable Cittern" association.
Bards, let's join the F.U.C. !

rjc9000 · January 2022

tchefi#6735 said:
As a bard, I find this topic quite inspiring.
Maybe each of us, bards, should compose a song about our songs being broken, and make a big charity concert in the Moonstone Mask to raise funds for the F.U.C.

tchefi#6735 said:

What the F.U.C. ? The "Fellowship of the Unbreakable Cittern" association.
Bards, let's join the F.U.C. !

I'd prefer "FUBAR": Future Unemployed Bards Against Repression.

warr182 · January 2022

Thx guys for feed back .. I looked and found no feedback at all ,, So It's nice to finally see it ...

arcanjo86 · January 2022

warr182 said:
I worry after a Day on the forms no one has posted .... Anyone playing the Bard know it's broken yet no one is posting . That is not a passive sign for this game ...

maybe bring up when they make a bard class stream(if it ever happens)

shugensha · February 2022

From birth his dream was to help.
So a bard, to inspire, became.
Buffs and speed, heals and songs,
He had the pack to prevail.
But the world, oh so cruel
Decided to crush him away.

"Your heals are all HAMSTER,
Your songs are all HAMSTER,
Your buffs i can't feel anyway.
A DC is better, can heal me whenever
All you have is delay"

Our bard heartbroken,
Alone and forgotten,
Start to train again.
To heal and to buff,
to inspire and entretain.
He fighted the urge to end.

"Your heals are all HAMSTER,
Your songs are all HAMSTER,
Your buffs i can't feel anyway.
A pally is better, can shield me whenever
All that you have is delay"

Burning AD,
His brain and his self..
Our bard started again.
A whole new mentality
Restarted from nothing
He wouldn't give up yet.

"Your heals are all HAMSTER,
Your songs are all HAMSTER,
Your buffs i can't feel anyway.
A warlock is better, can heal me and shield me
All that you have is delay"

And that's how our bard
Our lovely little friend
Decided to give up in the end.
Ready to change his class,
An invite came along,
And that's when the value
Became a song.

"Your heals are great,
Your songs are inspiring,
Your buffs really save us there.
Other healers are good, but you complement us
All you have is just great"

Oh, our bard finally get's to shine.
Destroying the meta,
Supporting the team,
Our bard finally get's to shine.
Oh, our bard.. Finally get's.. To shine.

That's my 2 cents (and bio). Can make (or try) another one if my muse allows it.

rjc9000 · February 2022

warr182 said:
Thx guys for feed back .. I looked and found no feedback at all ,, So It's nice to finally see it ...

Note that your bug has been reported multiple times before, such as the following reports:

https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter#/discussion/1263688/latest-updates-broke-the-bard
https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter#/discussion/comment/13196515
https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter#/discussion/1263695/ballad-of-the-hero-bug

The "community manager" apparently "escalated" the bug reports to the dev team one month ago.
Nothing was done despite the players going through the official bug report procedure, so make of that what you will.

shugensha said:
From birth his dream was to help.
So a bard, to inspire, became.
Buffs and speed, heals and songs,
He had the pack to prevail.
But the world, oh so cruel
Decided to crush him away.

"Your heals are all HAMSTER,
Your songs are all HAMSTER,
Your buffs i can't feel anyway.
A DC is better, can heal me whenever
All you have is delay"

Our bard heartbroken,
Alone and forgotten,
Start to train again.
To heal and to buff,
to inspire and entretain.
He fighted the urge to end.

"Your heals are all HAMSTER,
Your songs are all HAMSTER,
Your buffs i can't feel anyway.
A pally is better, can shield me whenever
All that you have is delay"

Burning AD,
His brain and his self..
Our bard started again.
A whole new mentality
Restarted from nothing
He wouldn't give up yet.

"Your heals are all HAMSTER,
Your songs are all HAMSTER,
Your buffs i can't feel anyway.
A warlock is better, can heal me and shield me
All that you have is delay"

And that's how our bard
Our lovely little friend
Decided to give up in the end.
Ready to change his class,
An invite came along,
And that's when the value
Became a song.

"Your heals are great,
Your songs are inspiring,
Your buffs really save us there.
Other healers are good, but you complement us
All you have is just great"

Oh, our bard finally get's to shine.
Destroying the meta,
Supporting the team,
Our bard finally get's to shine.
Oh, our bard.. Finally get's.. To shine.

What tune do you sing this to?

tchefi · February 2022

shugensha said:
From birth his dream was to help.
So a bard, to inspire, became.
Buffs and speed, heals and songs,
He had the pack to prevail.
But the world, oh so cruel
Decided to crush him away.

"Your heals are all HAMSTER,
Your songs are all HAMSTER,
Your buffs i can't feel anyway.
A DC is better, can heal me whenever
All you have is delay"

Our bard heartbroken,
Alone and forgotten,
Start to train again.
To heal and to buff,
to inspire and entretain.
He fighted the urge to end.

"Your heals are all HAMSTER,
Your songs are all HAMSTER,
Your buffs i can't feel anyway.
A pally is better, can shield me whenever
All that you have is delay"

Burning AD,
His brain and his self..
Our bard started again.
A whole new mentality
Restarted from nothing
He wouldn't give up yet.

"Your heals are all HAMSTER,
Your songs are all HAMSTER,
Your buffs i can't feel anyway.
A warlock is better, can heal me and shield me
All that you have is delay"

And that's how our bard
Our lovely little friend
Decided to give up in the end.
Ready to change his class,
An invite came along,
And that's when the value
Became a song.

"Your heals are great,
Your songs are inspiring,
Your buffs really save us there.
Other healers are good, but you complement us
All you have is just great"

Oh, our bard finally get's to shine.
Destroying the meta,
Supporting the team,
Our bard finally get's to shine.
Oh, our bard.. Finally get's.. To shine.

That's my 2 cents (and bio). Can make (or try) another one if my muse allows it.

Loved it too, and as @rjc9000 I also want to know if you had a tune in mind roughly associated with it ^^ (i had some Beattles "Let it be" vibes running in my head while reading ^^, though it doesn't really fits well with the length of your verses and chorus :P)

shugensha · February 2022

Lol thank you. Didn't had a tune associated while writing it, just that "bard" vibe. Sadly idk about music (my knowledge is reddit songs), so it might take a while until i get the music down. As i said, it was written as a bio so i didn't thought that ahead xD

armadeonx · February 2022

Can we also get the dps path left trigger on consoles being slottable - the same as it is for the healing paragon? Consoles are already at a serious disadvantage compared to PC as we can't use keybinds...

kolatmaster · February 2022

rjc9000 said:

tchefi#6735 said:

I'd prefer "FUBAR": Future Unemployed Bards Against Repression.

The Bard songs are broken ..

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