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

[Cynric]

I'm not going to argue that we're a difficult class. Honestly, I'm not sure which classes I'd argue *are* difficult, but that's beside the point. I just don't want people getting the idea that somehow BRD is the single, solitary class that can DPS while moving, because we aren't. The fact is, the only time that a

No but look at all the examples you yourself cited, blm has to do these skills or hope for this proc to dps while moving, healers must use certain skills to heal while moving from AoEs, Melees have to find a safe spot as you have said while dealing with positioning or completely disengage at risk of losing major buffs or their place in rotation. None of these jobs can play their best while moving. Bur what changes between a bard playing his or her best and having to dodge? Well theyre moving, they dont need to pre plan and dont need an extra bonus skill, they play the exact same while dodging as they do standing still.

Does this make bard broken? No, just less stressful and through that stress level it makes it a bit easier to know what to do as a bard. No one is claiming what melees and the other classes do to be the hardest thing in the world. What I am saying and have been said is that Bard deals with very little of those same things to begin with. No cast times, but stays out of range of most AoE, no poisitioning on the target to mess around with. Just gotta play normal and when needed to sing bards are often told to do so, then they sing , and nothing changes how they play even then except the damage they do.