Quote Originally Posted by Rambus View Post
Maybe it is different now, I am not sure and if someone is going to couter the statment I am going to make it better be done so with math/ prase.

march/march is only done if you need a tank to puch down recasts or something. you useally have a second support if you are doing march/march. ( I/E second bard to do attack songs or cor)

PLD and solo brd it is march/ ballad. (though this hardly exists anymore, still stating it though)

If there is only one bard ( no cor) you do march/ attack.

A range attack base damage would be attack/attack.

soooo...
To me the "norm" is having one bard do march/ attack. I think that is why he attacked you.
You're asking me to reply with math when you're the one replying to my math without any.

Going from Gear+Haste to Gear+Haste+Marchx2 is a 62% increase in attack speed, which increases TP damage and WS damage (via WS frequency). I can't say it's exactly a 62% increase in total damage because that leaves out JA delay, but it would not be far off to say that, for the purposes of discussion, it is roughly a 60% increase in total damage dealt.

The absolute maximum you can get from any single minuet is +81 attack. On a DD/War with 700 Attack w/o Berserk, your average non-song'd Attack is going to be 805. Going from 805 average attack to 886 average attack is a 10% increase in attack plus a 27% increase in attack speed when you're using March 2 + Minuet 5. This doesn't come close to the 62% increase in attack speed you're getting by using double marches, and fails to take into account the decreasing returns and eventual cap on Attack (Putting it in your favor and still losing).

The more attack you have, the less each point of it is doing for you. The more Haste you have, the more each point of it is doing for you. Unless the DDs in question are complete and utter suck, not eating food, sitting with Attack Down debuffs fulltime; March+March will beat March+Minuet.