With the obviously very deliberate decision to scale back the weapon damage, se don't want bards damage increasing any more than it is. Bards have their spots secured in raid groups and.....it isn't as if people are not clearing stuff due to having a bard. Theres nothing convincing at all in this thread for a brd buff of any size. "My raid is too good to have a bard" doesn't really cut it as a reason to buff bards dmg. Yh I wouldn't mind 1 extra wd either, but that isn't very convincing either. bards don't NEEEEEED a buff. Dragoon did. Summoner does.