Thanks for the responses.

I suppose I've just been constantly dealing with wrong kind of people, as I didn't get to raid for a long time because of being a DRG, FC members saying it's so bad, this some months ago. And recently when I consulted some people from an FC that has beaten T9, I took it pretty seriously when they said that the only reason to bring a DRG is to boost Bard damage, which to me sounded a bit... meh...