How do we fix Bard?
Bard is a very unique kind of support, as his relevance to the match is dictated by his ability to roam and to roam at the right time. Unfortunately, his ability to roam atm is very lackluster, a case that shouldn't be for a champion designed around roaming. He feels incomplete. In order to roam, Bard must leave his lane partner to collect chimes and boost his passive. This forces the Bard to make the same decision every single match; temporarily abandon your lane to "farm", or have irrelevant damage and utility when lategame rolls around. It's clear that he's significantly weaker than other supports, and his 39% winrate goes on to prove that.
So what do I propose we do to fix Bard?
Well since Bard is so heavily rooted in his passive chimes, I feel this is the area he needs some tweaking.
First of all, Bard's chime spawns are global and appear to be random. The problem here is that you could easily have all your chimes spawn top lane and end up with a sort of chime "drought" bottom lane. If his chimes spawns were limited to a generous area around him (let's say covers ~2/3 of the map in its radius), he would no longer have to worry about this.
Another idea that I think would be useful would be to give Bard a larger MS buff upon collecting chimes, or allow him to stack MS by picking up multiple chimes and move incredibly fast. Perhaps when he reaches a certain speed he could do that beard comet thing he does in the Mountain animation on Youtube (I was really hoping to see that in the game).
I really love Bard's design and think he's one of the most interesting characters in the game, and I really want to see him become that floaty-Santa Claus-roamer-thingy you guys set him out to be. So rito pls, at least consider some of these changes I've proposed or whip something up yourselves to make Bard shine.
Geez, this sure became a giant wall of text really quickly.
EDIT: Okay, so the chime stack thing already exists. I still think he needs to be able to collect chimes more quickly, one way or another.
