I think its time BRD get some loving

[Atomnium]

If BRD was on par with the other dps classes damage-wise, why would raids bring anything else? BRDs are the optimal class to handle mechanics. Why would anyone bring a melee? Why bring a BLM who has to cast/can't easily move? Just bring a BRD!

How do people not understand this?

People who actually complain and ask for a dps buff to BRD in this thread just don't want to understand this.
They just want to maximize their virtual epeen numbers, even if it mean to totally break the game balance.

[Snugglebutt]

People who actually complain and ask for a dps buff to BRD in this thread just don't want to understand this.
They just want to maximize their virtual epeen numbers, even if it mean to totally break the game balance.

I think you do not understand that decrease, removal or replacement of %20 damage debuff which happens only when playing certain songs would not break balance at all. Adding +1 WD will not break balance at all either but the continued disparity between our WD and other DPS classes keeps increasing so our class is becoming more imbalanced negatively with each major patch. I think your overestimating the impact of what people are asking for and being melodramatic about consequences.

I also wonder if people are forgetting we have incoming another very mobile ranged DPS soon by way of the Machinist that will add further competition to the ranged DPS classes. One of our so called three supporting skills is not a buff at all, it is a mob debuff and every class has mob debuffs leaving only two party buff skills for our class. If think Machinist will have zero party buffs or buffs that benefit other party members and zero enemy debuffs I think you will be in for a big surprise.