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

[Charas]

I believe the problem is most people only look at BRD's numbers on paper and tend to forget the overall battle effectiveness and utility that comes with the job.

The fact that you're a ranged DPS job by nature already places you in a different category than melee DPS (BLM / SMN / BRD)

You don't have to worry about any melee range attacks or AoE's that they do by default, you have no positional based combo system to get the most effect out of your actions.
Add on to this fact that you are not only ranged but are the only one in that category that has no movement penalty for doing damage (BRD)

Both BLM and SMN have casting times that will cancel when they move, they are unable to DD and dodge at the same time.

On top of this you have immense party presence and utility (Songs)

You can affect the parties TP, MP regen, and the resistance of mobs at will in addition to performing your other roles (yes it comes with a debuff to your damage as a cost however), This isnt even counting offesive merit like DoTs, RoD, and the ability to set Mantra

This is quite a lot packed into one job when you compare the capabilities of other DPS job's in comparison, it isn't that BRD was magically doing too much damage it's that based on the amount of things a BRD can do and the risk / reward was not balanced correctly versus the other jobs.

And they aren't touching so much touching your damage output per se, just your cross class abilities which in fact we still don't have the full details for.

If only there was less jealous ppl like u around, bard wouldn t get nerfed, melee would still be boosted, everyone would be happy.
If you really think bard have so many advantages, why don t u play one?
And don t come and say bard is no real job, i also have a monk, and playing monk is way easier than playing a bard (unless u have to interrupt, then it becomes annoying, to many waiting down time). As a Lancer, monk.... melee all u have to do is mostly keep ur dot on spam 4 buttons, go from flank to back to maximize ur dps output. SMN and BLM are ranged, got nothing to worry about but to dps.... But when u are a bard! u got to take care of ppl MP, TP, keep foe requiem up when big dmg is needed, all that managing ur own mp and taking care of silencing if needed. You still need to dodge or to play with DG mechanics (let s take coil turn 2... melee job are out of the rot order... they only spank and run out of repelling canons).
When i play Bard I like my job, if i play on my monk, I like it too... but why the frack ppl on this forum won't stop complaining about stuff just out of pure jealousy?