Quote Originally Posted by Hyunckel View Post
I don't know if Bards' dps is supposed to be higher since they bring some awesome utility...
Again, this confuses me. We bring awesome utility, when we actually have a need for bringing that utility.

No one is explaining why we have to have lower average Weapon dmg other than the fact that at some point we maybe will play a song when there's need for one.

Even if we had the same weapon dmg as a DRG, we'd obviously never actually do the same overall dmg output as a DRG. Because we maintain a steady mid-point while being able to maintain movement, with spikes every so often through use of cooldowns. They, on the other hand, have structured combos with increasing potency. Up until now and outside Minuet, the only WS we have that exceeds 150 Potency is Misery's End, which is a WS only used in the final Stretch.

So their low-point is just about the same as our constant output and a high-point that can vastly exceed what we would do. We could never have that because that's the point that would be broken. That is totally justified.

But when playing a song we take another hit to our DMG. It's now at 15% but it used to be at 20. So not only do we do less dmg when not even providing that awesome utility, but when we do, we deal even less. And it makes sense to deal less when we have to provide support. It doesn't make sense that we deal less constantly if only because we MIGHT use a song. Would it not make sense to instead take whatever % of dmg difference already lies in our weapon dmg and just add it to the song's reduction?