BLM vs Bard

[LeviathanElite]

why is it bad that blm is 2nd place? i mean it sounds to me that mnk and drg need a rebalance not these two if they aren't even considered in the running.

Umm, can Black mage take damage like monk and drg can? dont think so... In any game, tradeoffs have to be taken into account. Black mage gets 1 shot by a sneeze, so in turn they should have at least equal damage to bard. You are missing the point. They are both ranged dps, and one should not have much faster cast times, be able to attack while moving AND do way more dps.

[Sentinel]

Umm, can Black mage take damage like monk and drg can? dont think so... In any game, tradeoffs have to be taken into account. Black mage gets 1 shot by a sneeze, so in turn they should have at least equal damage to bard. You are missing the point. They are both ranged dps, and one should not have much faster cast times, be able to attack while moving AND do way more dps.

This has been debated to no end, ranged cannot take the damage that melee can but ranged are also ranged, so justifying higher DPS on ranged vs melee has no merit in a game where all the mobs are designed to hit the tank, now if this game had no tanks, you would have a point. So lets not try to give any class a DPS advantage, the point is, every class should have the same amount of advantages and disadvantages and the overall DPS at the end of the day, needs to be the same across all of em.