Poor DPS - apparently. Need advise.

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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.