I think its time BRD get some loving

[ChaozK]

I can understand the bards desire to parse higher and the ideas proposed in this thread arent too bad but at the end of the day SE only rebalances jobs once exclusion from endgame content starts happening (as has been the case for WAR/Melee/BLM/DRG) which atm is not the case for bard. Rather contrary, on shiva, bard seems to be the dps in most demand for FcoB. Its hard to justify buffing a job as long as this is the case.

Its partly due to bard not having any competition for their slot. So maybe when machinist comes out there are better chances for a bard buff (this would assume though that machinist would be superior).

Another thing i want to mention is that the actual WD gap doesnt seem to increase. The innitial WD difference of 4 or 5 is naturally going to rise over time to remain the same gap due to WD increasing overall.


Example
Allagan Bow WD 42
Allagan Spear WD 47

-> difference of 5 WD

future content Bow WD 420
future content Spear WD 470

-> difference of 50 WD

= Still the same gap.

If it remained a difference of 5 WD forever, the actual gap between bards and other classes would shrink. So its expected that the difference in WD would get higher over time without making bards weaker.