More interest in playing Archer.

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2) For ALL OTHER CONTENT: BRD ??? ARC
For all of this content, gear is so ludicrously overpowered that the content is trivial. It really doesn't matter what you do here because the content is so simple that it doesn't end up making a significant difference anyways. If you like playing archer, then go for it. Casual content is meant for fun anyways, not serious play.

This second part is up for debate when it comes to heroic and expert level dungeons, sometimes even heroic mode primals. There's always the off chance that you will get people who are relevantly geared for the dungeon, and places like AK-HM is pretty overtuned for ilvl 90 to meet the dps check on demon wall. An expert run that would've taken 25 minutes took me 35 minutes because the other bard in my party used one piece of tanking accessories for hp; just to give you an idea on just how much it can potentially slow down a run with that 20 attack power/dex difference. I mean he was acceptable on his uptime, kept his dots up and all, but factor in trying to be useful and adding swift-casting skinstone or cures (which would've happened, because the healer eventually died either due to faling asleep with how long the boss fights took, or the extra cerelum tank explosions) and it'd be a little bit less of his real damage because all of that takes time away from it.

If the end goal is to play for fun, then sure. I won't argue against that, it's just that some people have explicated supported playing poorly on purpose, trolling 24-man raids or doing things like putting parry on a WHM novus and justified it with that reasoning.