helping bard with playing Army's Paeon

[RinchanNau]

Let's take this 30 seconds of paeon sample size. That is 300 TP. So you think that reducing BRD DPS by 20% for 30s and not increasing caster DPS by 15% (non-BV foe's) during this time is better for raid damage than a DRG just cutting out Phlebotomize 3 times (270 TP) or a MNK cutting out Touch of Death 3 or 4 times (240 or 320 TP)?

This is dependent on group config, of course If you have no caster DPS then I suppose Paeon is better for raid damage.

[limed3]

Let's take this 30 seconds of paeon sample size. That is 300 TP. So you think that reducing BRD DPS by 20% for 30s and not increasing caster DPS by 15% (non-BV foe's) during this time is better for raid damage than a DRG just cutting out Phlebotomize 3 times (270 TP) or a MNK cutting out Touch of Death 3 or 4 times (240 or 320 TP)?

This is dependent on group config, of course If you have no caster DPS then I suppose Paeon is better for raid damage.

Its a little bit disingenious of you to compare TP usage without taking into account the natural tp regen.
If you want to compare based on phlebotomize or touch of death it should really be ~9-10 phlebotomizes or 14-15 touch of death's we're talking about here compared to the 30 seconds of Paeon the bard would be playing (give or take 1 or 2 depending on skill speed).

[Leonus]

So based on your post, in your parties you usually have a drg OR mnk and not both. So in your instance I guess it would be more efficient for the drg or mnk to manage their tp.

In my parties we usually have 1 tank,. 2 casters, 1 bard, 2 melee (both drg and mnk) and 2 healers. In this configuration it is more efficient to play paeon when the melee dps and are low on tp because they are usually your highest dps. If both of them drop from 450+ to 200 that is less efficient for the raid group than the brd eating 20% damage cut and the casters not getting a 15 % damage boost for a period of time (30 sec to help until next invigorate sample size). No matter how hard the brd and casters push in that situation they can not make up the difference that the 2 melee dps are suffering from by not having paeon and being low on tp.