Is bard dps the weakest?

[savant07]

But see that's the thing. Bard potency is on the lower end. 150 for heavy shot, 140 straight shot, 150 bloodletter etc. Look at black mages. Fire is 150 but they get umbral fire buff PLUS their weapon damage is 50% higher in damage which means all their attack deals 50% more damage. They are hitting for 600 every 2.5 sec with the occasional 900 Fire IIIs. At the same time, look at summoners. The pet deals more damage than our auto attacks and they also have 50% more damage on weapons which means 50% more potency for each DoT and I have to say, their DoTs hurt!

But I do get your point. We attack more. I just don't see it adding up as much as black mages or summoners.

I wish parsers and combat logs would get updated and fixed so we know for sure...unless there's some sort of simcraft we could use.

[Thotor]

But I do get your point. We attack more. I just don't see it adding up as much as black mages or summoners.

I wish the same.

Like you said our scaling from WD/Determination is lower compared to other class.
However we have a higher scaling from crit just because of bloodletter proc.

Is the scaling the same as other DPS ? That's very hard to tell.

Also there is very important part in BRD rotation : crit buff (also damage) must be applied before any DoTs. If this not done correctly, the dps loss is HUGE. Less crit on DoT ticks but also a lot less Blood letter proc.
Even with broken parser, the difference is about 20 dps between a good and a bad rotation (this is from personal experience)