Hard time choosing my DPSer.

[TheHomieData]

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1) assuming you're doing the standard dragoon rotation, disembowel will not be applied to the mob until 5th GCD skills which, coincidentally, is about the same as - perhaps more - the number of GCD required for a monk to be at their maximum sustained damage output with GL3, Tw buff, and DK debuff applied.
2) you don't calculate the dps increase from disembowel by adding a flat +10%, you divide output by 0.9. that makes disembowel only an 8.89% increase in bard dps.
3) this minor offset which brings bards back to 88.89% of their original damage output is, of course, solely dependent on whether or not the bard is currently targeting the same mob that the dragoon is targeting.
4) monk and dragoon do not have the same survival rates. as a melee dps, the majority of your incoming damage will be enemy AoE magic damage. assuming i90, an equally geared monk will at baseline have 38% more magic defense than a drg at any given moment and this disparity is not offset by the bit of extra hp that dragoons get. Dragon Kick (blunt resistance debuff) also lowers enemy INT by 10%, further complimenting their advantage of Mg Def over dragoon. this rather large advantage in magic defense could be considered a null point, however, if he never gets hit by AoE. assuming he does, though, extra Mg Def will ease the melee-dps learning curve.
5) the INT lowered by Dragon Kick will most notably affect the magic damage that the tanks take. reduced damage to the tanks alleviates mp strain on the healers. reduced mp strain on the healers means a delayed necessity of Mage's Ballad, extending the time that a bard is not operating at -20% and thus, means more dps. reduced downtime spent casting heal spells also offers the more skilled healers opportunities to pop into cleric stance and help DPS - and Scholar DPS can get pretty impressive.
6) bards will typically clock in the least dps out of any composition of dps classes. this, however, is balanced by the massive amount of utility they bring to any group which is not matched by any other class to any sufficient degree. that being said, an 8.89% offset to a -20% damage penalty on a class that (as of 2.1) is not known for stellar dps will not be very noticeable, especially when said offset can't be utilized until after 5 drg GCD skills and can't be utilized if the raid has the bard targeting a different mob.


i'm not trying to say which dps class is best. i just want to point out that recommending one class by dismissing an another is probably not the best idea, especially with your reasoning.