I think its time BRD get some loving

[Dyne_Fellpool]

Similarly, the only people who would generally support this are bard mains who feel bad they didn't main a serious DD class and need to stroke their e-peen with a damage increase.

Bard is half dps, half support. You cannot kill off the slight DPS negation from supporting seven other people and still expect to do the same amount of damage; that's crazy.

Bard has just 3 support skills.
None of them ever benefit 7 people at once.

Its not half and half. If anything its like 80/20, while other dps classes are 90/10.
Bards have more utility than other dps, but not a whole lot more. They should do less dps than other dps-classes, but not a whole lot less.