Job balancing?

[Secondplanet]

My solution to how to fix brd(i've been a brd for 12 years now) is to uncap our songs hard cap and redo how the calculation of the potency of each songs power is determined. The easiest solution is to change our singing, wind, and string skill from C to A+. We are the only job to have instrument skill. Yes geomancer have C skill for handbell and geomancy but the nature of how their spells are calculated is by percent, versus the static values of brd.

Summoner has the same issues with old hard caps on our bloodpact wards. Most are stuck at lvl 75 stats which today are not even worth the mp needed to cast. As for raising the skill stat from C to A+ would break abit of balance as you would be having 2 A+ stats as the base for every song cast. While smn only has a A- ranking for summoning magic which is summoners one and only magic skill so never understood that. I could see bard going from C to maybe B+ or A- and Geo going to A at most.

[VoiceMemo]

Summoner has the same issues with old hard caps on our bloodpact wards. Most are stuck at lvl 75 stats which today are not even worth the mp needed to cast. As for raising the skill stat from C to A+ would break abit of balance as you would be having 2 A+ stats as the base for every song cast. While smn only has a A- ranking for summoning magic which is summoners one and only magic skill so never understood that. I could see bard going from C to maybe B+ or A- and Geo going to A at most.

Well perhaps gear then that would raise our stat level more than the individual wind skill, string skill, singing skill, along the lines of the Incanter's Torque, but for say All song skills +X amount and removal of the hard caps. In this way base brd would not be OP but a well geared brd could be.