Bard needs some love too.

[Triston]

Bard has a guaranteed spot in every 8-man group or alliance. The job slots for all top-end Coil fights is tank, tank, WHM, SCH, DPS, DPS, DPS, BRD. To reiterate, that's MNK, DRG, NIN, SMN, and BLM, 5 jobs all competing for 3 slots, and you as a BRD just need to find an open static.
Bard does not need any love.

[Meier]

If anything, BRD should be given more powerful support role..and then the devs can release a pure DD ranged job ^^

[CGMidlander]

Bard seems fine to me. There are some movement/downtime heavy fights where Bard can excel in damage compared to some other classes too.

[Lithera]

In a straight up single target fight a BRD is going to fall behind yes. However the party buffs etc. make up for this. In a fight like T6 a BRD can shine as nothing short of being eaten stops their uptime whereas every other DPS has to stop and they can even DPS the bulbs/hornet AND Raff at the same time without too big a hit on potency to either target unlike if say DRG or MNK started AoEing. The more adds the encounter has the more potent a BRD is as well. They fall a bit short of BLM in terms of AoE but again utility.

[CrystalRainbow]

Odd, My wife is leveling BRD now, And 3-4 times she has been told to back off. Because she is always pulling hate.

Maybe bad tanks or maybe outputting high dmg.

[CGMidlander]

Odd, My wife is leveling BRD now, And 3-4 times she has been told to back off. Because she is always pulling hate.

Maybe bad tanks or maybe outputting high dmg.

Bards can have incredible burst capability, especially at the start of a pull.

[Kiara1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W54...ature=youtu.be

When they beat T13 bard had the highest dps

[Triston]

Odd, My wife is leveling BRD now, And 3-4 times she has been told to back off. Because she is always pulling hate.

Maybe bad tanks or maybe outputting high dmg.

Bards have very volatile damage output, because they rely so heavily on their cooldowns/river of blood procs to deal the damage. This means that at the beginning of a fight when you can activate all your cooldowns at once, you get absurd early burst and with it threat output. This is alleviated by when you get Quelling Strikes, but it still doesn't eliminate it. You'll notice that when all of her cooldowns drop off, her threat will start to plummet on the charts in relation to other DPS.

[Edeline]

Odd, My wife is leveling BRD now, And 3-4 times she has been told to back off. Because she is always pulling hate.

Maybe bad tanks or maybe outputting high dmg.

It's really known how tanks (laughable term) aren't real tanks until Lv40 (pld) and 30 (war) for shield oath and defiance. Every class could steal their hate easily, bard just makes it easier than others (except blm/thm) because they're instant attacking (ranged) as tank aggroes mobs and opening burst while tanks barely have any hate built (I admit I did this myself Lol, too lazy to wait!) while other classes would have to cast or move to the mob then attack.

[Rose-Wild]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W54...ature=youtu.be

When they beat T13 bard had the highest dps

Ok this one was funny. I think i'll let you guess why. I'm not sure if you are trolling tho.

And yes Bard has insane opener so they can get hate really easy if they pop all the cooldowns. But that goes away quickly.