melee dps buffs + bard nerf = cumulative effect too much?

[Thorauku]

Why are you being rude?
Garnatian spoke in present tense about the state of bards and you reply with a hypothetical situation.
How can you say he "didn't do his homework" if you're making stuff up AND he never said anything about the bard nerfs at all?

BRD being support dps is the most accurate assessment right now.
As I've said before, I don't think they deserve nerfing but that's because their low dps is balanced by their support.
Arguing Support vs DPS roles for Bard is the most BS semantics on this forum. Seriously, it is what it is.

Bard utility outweighs any other class by a significant margin. Bards have the lowest dps.
If Bards were pure dps and their support wasn't good, why is it that bard is the only job that gets a guaranteed spot for coil when they have the lowest potential dps?
Right. DPS/Support is pretty accurate.
They are neither pure support or pure dps. If they wanted to make bards pure dps, they wouldn't have songs. But then why would they be bards at all then?

Bards have a guaranteed spots in Coil parties due to their utility, yes it is true.

When the producer's Live Letter was released, the nerf was narrowed to the cross-skills in which there's only 3 of it being the most useful, Invigorate, Blood For Blood and Internal Release, now tell me, do you still think they will have a "Guaranteed" spot in coil parties if they were to take out let's say, LNC cross skills? While it is true that they will still have their song, assuming they take out Invigorate / BFB (which is most likely to happen because PGL is the requirement for BRD quest), most of their uptime songs will be focused on TP song alone, taking out Foe Requiem and Ballad.

Bring 2 Bards to keep TP Song and another X song? That's pretty stupid if I were to ask, it's like reducing your DPS potential into 3 man only.

Silence? Yeah, sure..... Paladins can do this too.

So where's the DPS slash Support there? When infact you need 2 Bards for a single Bard to be effective. Single Bard is very viable now due to their cross-skill, take it out and Bards will be crippled.

/stupid1000postlimithadtodomultipleeditting.