Why does SE hate melee dps?

[Naelle]

Not trying to sound mean but that really had nothing to do with what I said.

It's not like I've ran AK only once with a Dragoon and once with a Bard...I, like everyone else, have done many many AK runs and constantly find that Bards make the run far quicker. Again, I personally don't care that they're strong. The only thing I would want is to have people want a melee class as much as they want a Bard in the group.

Not trying to sound mean but yes it does. Bard is by far the easiest DPS class to use. Player skill does make a difference. I play with dragoons and bards and they do very even dps/damage on almost every boss/instance we've parsed. People don't want to bring melee because they want to eliminate the possibility of a bad player in good gear.

[KogaDrake]

Not trying to sound mean but yes it does. Bard is by far the easiest DPS class to use. Player skill does make a difference....

While I may agree BRD is not a hard job, it too has an optimal rotation and following it or button mashing as everyone says is all is needed for BRD is a HUGE difference in DPS. so many 1 button bards around that do about 2/3 of optimal dmg.

Also judging classes DPS based on AK is a HORIBLE way to do it because just about no one who is geared and done AK many many times is actually trying to do their rotation, they are all button mashing with the exception of probably the bosses when they actually try somewhat, but AK is such a joke no one really does their full potential as it only shaves a min or two off a 25min run..