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.