Do you think bard desired a nerfing soon.

[mushashi]

bard dps is fine(on line with others dps) and dont need nerfs.
only add 1 sec or 2 sec cast time to heavy shot and they wont can do 100 % of their dps on every situation as now.
i repeat bards dps isnt overpower, it is their movility that it is op

[fauxpas]

Melee need buff and barb need a nerfing at the same time.

so you want them to make your class OP? you are very jaded and see this only from your POV and cant seem to imagine how nerfs and buffs impact a game. all yours posts offer only jabs at the class and mechanics yet you offer NO real or sencible idea. nerf bards dps im okay, fine. but adding cast timers is not the way to fix the class. they are about being moble and if you take this away all they become is another caster with a bow. did you ever think that maybe SE had "highly mobil dps" in mind for the bard to begin with. dont request huge changes in class mechanics things can be solved better with actual thought. other than you just stating that there OP and thats that..

[mushashi]

so bards dont want nerf to their damage neitehr to their mobility....
now every class is doing the same dps but every class have to loose dps to go out os aoes or mobs changing position so melles loose dps,or casters need cut spells for evade aoes etc.
bards loose 0 dps with all this so in a real coil fight bards gonna do allways the 100 % of their damage where others jobs only the 70-80%.
add here that bards is the only class with real bufs and we have because many fc are stacking 2-3bards.
Im sorry but bards really needs a nerf,or to their dps,or movility or bufs.
who cant see this is because they are bias or dontknow toomuch about mmorpgs

[Kroktar]

So much QQ...Bards arent the TOP DPS...BLMS and SMN are....

Good Monks do a lot of damage its not that behind from BRD depending on which boss, and DRG buffs piercing so 10% its your damage.

[fauxpas]

due to boss mechanics melee will never be able to have contant DPS thats just a fact that needs to be accepted. as for bards and i have said this before that the dps could be nerfed a bit and song stacking should be removed. but mobility is the one thing that sets bards aside from the other ranged dps. to hinder this would be a MAJOR change in how the class is played. as for bard buffs they are fine (once they fix the stacking fact and im pretty sure they will as to not make taking 2-3 bards for dps a need). i dont think bards should have positional shots as this dosent fit the archer role. people are requesting the hammer be braught down on bards when slight things changes could be made to bring ballence bard and dps.

[t00nc3ss]

BRD's responses to this, and similar topic threads, are golden. It's priceless.

There's ABSOLUTELY no way they are OP. Everyone who says they are is a bad player and are terrible at playing their Job. Consequently, everyone that plays a BRD must be the A+++ cream of the crop on every server.

100% mobility enabling BRDs to do 100% DPS at all times, with exceptional utility.

-Ask a BRD to give up mobility? "No we're designed to be mobile!!!"
-Okay, what about lowering DPS a bit then? "NO!! We're a DPS class, must max DPS all the time!"
-But you should give up something for your utility...? "NONONO, we are BRDs we are a utility class!!!"
-So players who are not BRDs saying that you are OP are wrong? "Of course they are. All us BRDs that say we aren't OP know what we are talking about. We're a very balanced class. Everyone else that plays a different class are just terrible players who should L2P instead of complaining. Oh! and they should focus on FUN! nothing else."
What about melee classes working hard to keep competitive? - "Other classes working twice as hard as we do and still not pulling the same DPS? No it's completely balanced gameplay, as long as they're having fun!"
So everyone else is wrong? - "Yes"
Any parting words? "Sure. Give BRD a DPS LB, it's only fair, we're a DPS class. And pay attention to us telling you results of broken and unreliable parses from 3rd party software, they show we are not OP and therefore is 100% completely correct."

[fauxpas]

i wonder when the devs will step in and make a post?

[Gallows]

Good Monks do a lot of damage its not that behind from BRD depending on which boss, and DRG buffs piercing so 10% its your damage.

'We are fine... the job with the most difficult rotations and most positional requirements in the game does almost as much damage as we do face smashing our keyboards... and that other melee job buffs piercing damage by 10%, so thats almost as good as the buffs we give. See, its all perfectly balanced.'

[7thPawn]

BRD's responses to this, and similar topic threads, are golden. It's priceless.

Very well put and I have to say way to go on this. You summed everything up perfectly Tooncess with your rundown of the questions. I am a Bard and I kind of feel like I am cheating a lot of the time playing it. I am so mobile I don't get hit and have actually tanked a dungeon boss. What??!!?! I hit like a freight train. I also have the utility to keep casters casting as well as other stuff in my arsenal. Truth be told I am ridiculous and I should be stopped.

[Kitkat]

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Stopped reading it after first line because it was full of falsehoods and misinformation based on the total feedback in the entire thread. Some haven't said anything about other DPS being bad and that all the brds must be elite cream of the crop. Most have said that when the Melee weren't hindered constantly by AOE attacks that they did just as much damage.

Buffing melee will create a disparity when melee won't be hindered by AOE quite a bit and still wouldn't fix the remaining issue of Melee constantly having to move out of the way of too many AOE attacks or cause a major drain on MP. SE needs to address the real issue before going in and buffing or nerfing any of the jobs.