Bards need a buff

[Akesis]

LOLWUT
WE CAN SKIP A DREAD, BUT LET'S CONTROL OUR TP !!!

Do you want some "real" math ?
-Every 18s you are using your 2 dots : 2*80 tp. It will be every 17.5s. 2 out of 7 GCD's are these dots.
-Every 20s you are using Straight Shot : 70 TP. 1 out of 8 GCD is this buff.
-When the dots are up and the buff "Straight Shot" is up, you're using Heavy Shot : 60TP.
Let's imagine that you are unlucky with the RNG and never get the critical "Straight Shot".

With ZERO SKS :
56 GCD : 16 skills at 80TP, 7 skills at 70TP and 33 skills at 60TP. Total : 3750TP -> 67TP per GCD.
Every GCD, we're getting 50 TP and let's add invigorate : 400TP every 120s -> 8.33TP every GCD. Total : 58.33 TP recovered every GCD.
Net loss : 8.66TP every GCD. We are out of TP after 116 GCD, i.e 289s.

Well, a BRD could "manage his TP" by not using his dots Yeah, I'm sure Bloodletter isn't a big part of our DPS
And by the way, Paeon is 42.8% more TP restored per GCD. I don't know how you are doing some "math", but in a perfect situation, 42.8% more TP = 42.8% more DPS.

"real math"? I am very confused by this statement...

AP gives 30 TP every 5 seconds. So, it will be 10 or more seconds per ability that TP users gain access to that they wouldn't have regen by themselves (the avg ability is about 80 TP, yes some cost less). Depending on how much MP you have, you should be able to keep any song up for about 60secs (full MP bar - 0 MP). It takes just over 150sec to regen your MP bar from 0. As a side note, I rarely sing myself much below 1k MP until late in the fight (there are times and phases that I go oom). This way I always have a buffer should someone die or poop hit the fan until we have the fight down to an art. I normally only sing for a max of 30 seconds at the cost of 75 seconds to regen while learning.

If you use those numbers: 30 secs of singing = 3 abilities(at most) that they gain access to and it will be another 75 seconds before you can sing again. This is the part where AP is a major waste of your MP and it kills your raid wide dps. If they are close enough on TP that 3 abilities make a difference, they are close enough to learn to sustain. If they are so TP starved that they are doing nothing for the bulk of the fight... They really need to learn to play their job better. So as you would say using "real" math, people need to learn to conserve their tp so the BRD can be free to sing Foe. AP also decreases the BRD's dps while Foe does not. Foe should be the only song that is played unless someone is dead. Go test for yourself, AP is a waste of MP. If you are saying that we as BRD's need AP, I question your rotation. Just because you CAN use an ability, doesn't mean that you SHOULD use that ability. If you know that you run out of TP at the 3-4 min mark and the fight is going to be 6 mins. You should adjust your rotation accordingly. Singing AP isn't worth the DPS loss instead of "tweaking" your rotation to be able to sustain.


To those who keep saying Brd is a hybrid class within the DD jobs. There are 3 roles TANK, HEAL, DD. No sub jobs, no Hybrid jobs. 3 roles. Sure, some jobs do some things better then others. I am not saying nor have I ever stated that we need to be on the top of any dps list. I am merely stating that we are too far below the rest of the jobs. Sure some fights will be better for some jobs rather then others and BRD has "no bad fight". However, in MAX gear. At near MAX play there is too big of a gap between DD roles.

As for adding and subtracting dps from other jobs to "give it to another" because they were buffing them is silly. A job's numbers are their numbers. Do we subtract 10% of a MNK's damage because he buffs himself?