| Re: March vs. Madrigal vs. Minuet I'll explain my reasoning behind Minuet III vs. Blade Madrigal in as simple of terms as I can.
(1) Every good merit or XP party goes in assuming 2x Minuet or 1xMinuet 1xMarch as a baseline. I don't know of ANY melees outside of ones in a static party who will gear themselves to expect having any outside +Accuracy boosts. As such, most melees will set up gear/food to optimize for Accuracy. This makes Blade Madrigal of very limited usefulness unless you run into an especially hard IT++ enemy with high evasion (maybe a Mamool Ja Infiltrator).
(2) Even if there's ONE melee who breaks from the pack and doesn't optimize Accuracy, it's still a better move to sing Minuet/March or Minuet/Minuet for the rest of the group. If you're so lucky to have that one person be a 2-handed user, you can compromise and give them Uncanny Etude after the fact by using March/Minuet/Etude, or Minuet III/Minuet IV/Etude, in that order.
In a two bard situation, it's still no contest. If you're XPing against Colibri and melees are hesitant to use sushi, then that's probably the only time you'll think about using Madrigal, but Colibri are generally not very tough at level 75, so most decently geared melees at 75 don't need any extra help landing hits against them anyway, so really the application is limited to the lower level ones in the mid/late 60s. In every other case, Madrigal is overshadowed by March and Minuet.
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