Poor DPS - apparently. Need advise.

[SoloOne]

Thanks everyone. Very helpful.

I researched getting a new weapon, guess I missed the obvious progression. Sorry.

Wanted to improve as much as possible BEFORE Ifrit. Thought that most respectful of other players - nothing worse than dying on your team.

I am working on Relic.

So off to get a new weapon. Yes!

[SoloOne]

I'd think the issue is obvious, and I'm not playing bard.

Or did I just get trolled? Oh man...

No need to be sarcastic. I asked the question looking for help. Why hassle people asking for help?

[SoloOne]

The full dex will help some.

Bard DPS is more a priority then a rotation. There are a bunch of threads about it throughout the forums... dig around a bit.

Yes, I did a lot of research and study. I took the time to ask the question to get help and confirm my findings. Thanks for your post though.

[SoloOne]

I'm not the Troll - but some of YOU are!

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[Truefaith87]

No offense to all the BRD posting in here, but if your'e going for the class to top the charts, you may want to rethink your choice. BRD is great early 50game, but as content progresses they do pander off on the DPS.

[Kuroyasha]

*begins reading post*

ok yea should be full dex but everything else looks ok

*continues reading post*

Weapon - Serpent's Sergeant's Bow L-44

........./shocked

You'll be A-Ok with that out the way.

[Viridiana]

No offense to all the BRD posting in here, but if your'e going for the class to top the charts, you may want to rethink your choice. BRD is great early 50game, but as content progresses they do pander off on the DPS.

I don't see anyone here saying we would be. >_>

[Thorauku]

I don't see anyone here saying we would be. >_>

False. Those crybaby classes think so. IYKWIM.

[LunarEmerald]

No offense to all the BRD posting in here, but if your'e going for the class to top the charts, you may want to rethink your choice. BRD is great early 50game, but as content progresses they do pander off on the DPS.

Bard will never hit as high as others but their dps is still quite high. A team of 4 bards that are well geared and know what they're doing is enough dps to take down anything.

[synaesthetic]

Bard gearing is very simple: If it has crit, wear it. If it doesn't have crit, don't wear it. If it has more crit than what you've got on, go for it.

Now that Internal Release has been nerfed in 2.1, stacking crit on bard is even more important than before.

Use DL head, body, feet, waist, toxotes legs and hands, imperial operative choker HQ (put a savage might II materia in it if you want), DL earring, bracelet, ring, toxotes ring. Pick up a GC lieutenant bow and use that till you can get relic.

Bard will never hit as high as others but their dps is still quite high. A team of 4 bards that are well geared and know what they're doing is enough dps to take down anything.

That's funny. Bard is still one of the strongest DPS classes in the game if built properly. They're just not competing with DRG (and with MNK on fights with little/no movement) anymore.

It's just amusing how nobody seems to know how to gear their bard. I see far too many people using full DL, or that awful CT set, or bad pieces of Allagan that don't have crit. No wonder they don't think they can do very much DPS.