Quote Originally Posted by Musashidon View Post
what you don't get is your dps doesn't matter your boost to the other dps do.
Resource recovery is not a direct DPS boost. You'd have to give BRD +Attack, +Crit and +Determination before you can even make that claim. This said, Paeon and Ballad are essentially raid cooldowns, which is why they're a nice thing to have but are not definitive of BRD gameplay. They're basically our version of Bloodlust/Heroism, except Blizzard and the WoW's playerbase haven't convinced themselves that Shaman DPS needs to be below the tanks to justify them having those buffs.

And BRD DPS does matter because if they're in the group, their contribution to DPS checks will determine whether you see the next phase or wipe.
mobility has nothing to do with it.
Mobility is precipitated by the fact BRD is built around instants and off-GCD skills. It's what allows them to keep up the damage despite dealing less damage per skill, since they can keep attacking while everyone else is moving in and out of AoEs.
let's see you beat a raid without a bard when your tank/melee dps are out of tp and your healers are out of mp, and you are doing zero damage and dying because noone is getting heals.
When DPS is high enough, the value of resource recovery plummets since you won't need it unless someone messes up on mechanics and drains the healer's MP (even then, I'd argue that things are salvageable seeing that casters have been given more ways to restore their own MP).