Quote Originally Posted by Garan View Post
I keep seeing this reasoning come up for why Bards do less damage. Does everyone not know that any time a Bard sings paeon or ballad we ALREADY receive a 15% DPS loss? Our penalty for supporting the party is already built in. There is absolutely no reason for Bards to have significantly lower DPS when not supporting the party with songs.
Yes there is, because Bard's songs are not necessary to beat anything. All they do is help you win when you're not good at the fight yet. For the last 3 months all I sang in every single turn of FCoB was Foe. Healers never need mana when they know how to stop over-healing the fights, and no one ever needs TP when they know how to manage their Invigs. So if BRD damage wasn't lower than everything else, you would see the same thing that happened in 2.0. Full BRD parties in Titan HM. DRG/MNKs getting kicked out of parties for dungeon runs if they couldn't switch to BRD.

We aren't going to be singing 100% of the time ever. To hit like a Monk and have free mobility is absolutely absurd on every level. No one would play anything else. Again, this happened. This was a reality. It would be again if our WD was returned.

It obviously wouldn't help everyone be better though...not when 2yrs later there are still people out there that think BRD's songs don't affect themselves? SMH