Do you think bard desired a nerfing soon.

As a DPS, bard has almost everything.
1. Ranged DPS, only class need DEX
2. Very good single Dmg, top 2. (230+ DPS from 5 mins result)
3. Very good aoe DMG, top 2
4. Very good mobility, no need stay at same spot to wait 3 sec casting.no position need.
5. Very good burst Dmg top 2. (330+ DPS from 30 sec result.)
6. Best group skill top 1. (Sound)
7. Most popular job
8. The Easiest dps job to find a group
9. The easiest play job
10.best cc class. reliable silence make every group want to get 2+ bard for coil.

What else? I mean Jesus why SE love bard so much.

Considering outside of a single target lb there is nothing bad about bringing multiple bards yes I do think they will get several nerfs. What they will be though who knows because if they did too much then it would be the same thing for other classes then is people would bringing more of X class because they're fotm.

7 is wrong. Dragoon is most popular.

Why nerf when you can bring others up to the level. People hate nerf and love buff. And I personally hate nerf on any class more than anything.

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Originally Posted by LunarEmerald

7 is wrong. Dragoon is most popular.

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No, newest data show bard had most population and 60% people second job is bard.

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Originally Posted by neoreturn

As a DPS, bard has almost everything.
1. Ranged DPS, only class need DEX
2. Very good single Dmg, top 2
3. Very good aoe DMG, top 2
4. Very good mobility, no need stay at same spot to wait 3 sec casting.no position need.
5. Very good burst Dmg top 3.
6. Best group skill top 1. (Sound)
7. Most popular job
8. The Easiest dps job to find a group
9. The easiest play job

What else? I mean Jesus why SE love bard so much.

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1) wont be an issue after a while when new classes come out
2) someone has to be top, balance is ultimately the goal but they arent overpowered patchwork
3) also not out of balance
4) their strongest point. This is where i see a hit coming in. I would like to see a powerful ability or two added that require standing still for 2-2.5s with a cooldown, still leaving them the most mobile class, but not allowing them to do 100% damage fully mobile
5) also not out of balance
6) not an issue
7) who wouldnt want to be an archer?
8) this is only due to the above
9) likely debatable

to lion king: that doesnt always work. If every time one class is out of balance you bring the others up to them than you are effectively making the game easier.

Since when bards got "burst"? They work as spamming machines not burst like DRG, You cant kill titan stone prisons like a DRG could.

I can only agree on mobility and its a very easy class as spamming machine instead of hardcore rotations(there is but not like other classes)

Because of mobility it can be very strong we see many battles that arent melee friendly or it takes a lot of movement.
But i have seen AWESOME monks and Blms on damage parser.

When you get to coil bards are pretty hard to play since you will need to coordinate with tanks for the interrupts. You mess up the interrupt for a second and your party wi suffer

5 offensive buff with short duration and long CD = burst.
During a burst phase with bard, you easily go over 300 dps.

Bard definitely needs a nerf in my opinion. Too much advantages and utility. Even if we were last in dps, we would still be group for songs and silence, so there is no need for us to be that strong.
One way to "nerf" us would be to have channeled attack, this would lower our advantage on moving fights and less easy to play.

are you seriosly gonna popup buffs to kill a stone?