you dont need to be at end game to post about end game, because a full darklight bard, ina party of full darklight friends clearing AK or whatever, with relic +1's across the board, you can still see noticable differences in the Bards dmg output, and all that means, is when they get Alagan gear, or AF2, it still continues to scale in that direction, even in coil. So it would be possible to understand where the job is going dmg wise, before you even set foot in coil.