FFXIV Leveling Report! Part 2 - BRD
…So, BRD huh? Oh boy. BRD started at level 60 for this leveling project and… I understand why I didn't touch it for that long. BRD bored me to tears. BRD was genuinely rough to get through, to a point that I have now unlocked the combat Allied Society daily quests for SB (only Kojin), ShB, EW and DT to speed along this entire process a bit, because I wanted BRD to be done with. Note: BRD only got 2 days of Pelupelu daily quests, the rest were unlocked for different jobs. I was just so bored that I was like "I need something to distract me from this that isn't just doing my Expert roulette."
BRD was genuinely so awful for my mental, I was just checked out and this didn't really change as I got levels. It got better with Empyreal Arrow giving a guaranteed proc on your songs and Apex Arrow's bar existing and the better RNG on Refulgent Arrow procs with Burst Shot (and the trait that allows both DoT skills and Iron Jaws proc it when used)... but it just wasn't enough to keep me engaged in playing the game. BRD's burst is genuinely kind of fun, but everything outside of that just... wasn't. The second I noticed that BRD's procs can only happen every 3 seconds, I could basically automate what I was doing outside of burst. When people say that the game is so boring, I can now only imagine them as BRD mains.
Genuinely F tier, I don't even think at higher levels it became fun enough for me to want to play it in anything even remotely serious. I think its Evolved Mode, which does look similar to current SMN, can genuinely only be an improvement. If anything scares me for one button combos for Evolved Mode, it is not getting a proc on Burst Shot for 10 uses in a row (yes, I counted). Also, yes, F tier didn't exist on the tier list until this point and it will continue to exist unless I don't have any D tier experiences >:(
Sorry this was so negative (and long winded because of being negative), but I had a lot of emotions that I needed to get out. If you like BRD, more power to you! This is very subjective and I do try to make that know by using things like "to me" and just generally referring to myself when expressing thoughts. Anyway, WHM up next and that should be a quick one, probably this week still, since it is was practically already almost done :v See you next time and thanks for reading!
