I chose BRD for swift gameplay, if I wanted to cast I would have chosen a Mage.

[Raiker]

once again you use level 24 archer as your go to as if that disproves the video.

Okay, since we're talking about invalidated arguments, which I'm sure you will rebuttal with, "B-but ... your horns are silly!" at the rate you're going.

Let me go ahead an invalidate yours.
You're a 24 archer, you're level 60 is a paladin. You're riding off the coat tails of UBERHAXED with your debate.

You keep referencing a video with a bard shooting a level 50 striking dummy that has no defense and is not actually showing his parse on. You're simply agreeing with something that agrees with you; makes you feel good. I get that.

I would love to ask if you see where your fallacy is, but you won't see it that way.

The easy TL;DR part of this post, bards (level 60 bards, not 24 archers) are not happy with things. They're expressing their displeasure though a forum provided to them to do as such. You being a 'bully' for the sake of being one does not further push this issue into getting resolved. I've seen a thimble full of people say, "Bard is fine." I've seen an ocean full of people say it is not. There is a disparity here.

Not recognizing this does yourself a disservice when you, yourself, decide to finally push bard past 50, and realize, "hey, something is wrong." When or if that does in fact happen, you will have caused your own problem.

Edit: Just to be petty because I feel like reducing my self down a level; you got your video from this link: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._872_dps_i180/

About half way down the page it's discussed about how unrealistic your 'proof' is.