Bard AF Feet+4

Not entirely true, it depends on if they have capped skill or not. Lets not forget buffing songs do have a skill cap for potency that needs to be reached like Honor March needs 900 for example.

Not for nothing, but you should be reaching that # basically by default...

And specifically Honor March which has the highest cap being at 900, if you're mastered you'll be at 818 before gear. If your ~ML22? you'll be at cap with No gear. And even if you wernt capped, the Marsyas itself provides a duration boost that makes Honor March typically the longest duration song of the bunch.

I'm basically saying it's kind of a moot / semantical point.

Base skill: 746
+Merits: 778
+Empy body: 826
+Empy hands: 870
+AF feet: 884

At 99 with merits and no JP, you're almost at 900 skill with no earrings, rings, back, or waist, for HMarch. You get another 50 from Gjallarhorn for every other song. TECHNICALLY it's possible to have an under capped HMarch, but it's...really hard. At 405 JP, you have 900 skill with only the empy body, empy hands, and AF feet.

Skill is not something you should care about in a midcast set, put in DT instead.

In this day and age with cleaving jobs from 1 to 99 a fresh BRD still might not have skills capped. Like I said in my previous post, that you guys seem to have glossed over, it depends if you have your skills capped.

a 20 singing skill and 19 wind skill isn't going to be reaching cap as easily as you guys are making out.

If you're pling your pocket bard and they arent running skillup.lua, what are you even doing???

What are we even talking about.....

Stop making stupid arguments for arguments sake

I daresay the solution to this is skilling up, rather than obsessing about skill+ gear. 20 more skill will also not cap a character in this situation, after all.

If "bro I cleaved my way to 99 + mastered + master levels and have 0 skill how can I do buffs lol" is your argument you don't really have an argument.