Is bard dps the weakest?

[savant07]

To everyone posting and reading this, sorry if I'm asking a lot of questions and all, I'm not trolling, it's just that from the numbers perspective I cannot see them doing that much.

Like for example, I know they do good damage while on the move but so do summoners and their pets continue to attack while they are moving and DoTs continue to tick and they do ALOT of damage due to their higher weapon damage (50% stronger attacks on all attacks) Their pets doing maybe 150-200? Bloodletter only seems to be doing 200 same with heavy shot etc.

Black mages hit for a lot and they hit often enough that their damage does add up but granted movement on encounters does suck. But they still hit like trucks. One Fire or Fire III is about 3 heavy shots worth of damage.

Also, where are all the data/xperience of people saying bards are top DPS right now? Cause in the other threads and according to some streamers doing coil of bahamut turn 1-5 say summoners own the DPS race.

[Thotor]

Like for example, I know they do good damage while on the move but so do summoners and their pets continue to attack while they are moving and DoTs continue to tick and they do ALOT of damage due to their higher weapon damage (50% stronger attacks on all attacks) Their pets doing maybe 150-200? Bloodletter only seems to be doing 200 same with heavy shot etc.

You are forgetting quite a lot of info. Summoner have a weak DD. While their DoT are higher than bard, we still do damage on top of our DoTs.

Also Bard have 10% more crit than any other class (without any burst skill). Criticals are not shown in parser for DoTs. On normal attacks, we get about 25% critical rate in end game. So that's an other 12.5% you need to add to our DoT damage.

On top of that, you are forgetting burst buff. We are the dps with the most buff. We have 5 dps buff. This a huge difference that must not be forgotten.
DoT benefits even more than DD from dps buff. Once the DoTs is applied, even if the buff fades, it will still tick at the same power when it was first cast.
This means that most the time, you will have a +30% crit on your DoTs (that's about 45% crit), which means that bloodletter will reset 1 tick out of 2 (2 DoTs with 50% chance each)