BRD/MCH Fixed!

[Amulrei]

There is no excuse for a BRD to do less damage than another DPS, (and if you think BRD is now on par with other DPS you need to stop letting duty finder partys pump your ego, ) unless his/her utility offsets the damage lost.

Finally! Someone seems to grasp this concept.

My biggest problem with MCH/BRD is you are penalized for being a utility class even if the utility in question is not in play or even of any use. You don't need TP/MP auras when leveling, doing dungeons, dinking about the open world and even in most trials. Unless hardcore raiding, you are unlikely even going to consider the aura as viable. And yet both the MCH and BRD are punished for even having access to this utility every moment of their existence only to then be hit with a further penalty to their damage when they finally do get to use it.

Meanwhile, DRGs get to run around screaming away with their party wide crit auras and do not lose a single point of DPS. Go figure...

[MrYaah]

Finally! Someone seems to grasp this concept.

My biggest problem with MCH/BRD is you are penalized for being a utility class even if the utility in question is not in play or even of any use. You don't need TP/MP auras when leveling, doing dungeons, dinking about the open world and even in most trials. Unless hardcore raiding, you are unlikely even going to consider the aura as viable. And yet both the MCH and BRD are punished for even having access to this utility every moment of their existence only to then be hit with a further penalty to their damage when they finally do get to use it.

Meanwhile, DRGs get to run around screaming away with their party wide crit auras and do not lose a single point of DPS. Go figure...

Your argument that bard needs buffs is that it isnt as useful in dungeons and while leveling? First of all, bard aoe and burst is amazing which works really well on dungeons and when killing trash where you kill a few mobs then have a gap where you're hitting nothing and your cds recover. If anything I'd argue that bard is one of the better dungeon dps. Also why does it even matter if you do 5% less dps than someone else in a dungeon or when killing that mob for a quest, the kind of people who only do dungeons and quests dont care about dps. Do you seriously parse yourself when you do haukke manor and think to yourself, well SHIT im doing so horribly in this dungeon and theres nothing I can do about it until square enix buffs my class.