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

[UBERHAXED]

I have also never seen the issue with how difficult it would be to "fix Bard damage." I never saw a problem with it myself, I mean, we ARE a DPS/Support hybrid job, we aren't SUPPOSED to be top damage. But hey, here's a fix:

If developers think we do too little damage, increase or base damage.
If they think we do too much damage, decrease our base damage.

Man, that solution was tough. ._.

The problem is it's difficult to make new content when 1 class isn't handicapped by a lot of the mechanics. And to make it affect bard, it would make it unplayable for any other class. They needed to fix the raid difficulty balancing problem before all they can do to increase difficulty is add more DPS checks. The problem was they they can make fights like titan or shiva then realize the difficulty then added only punished all classes but bard and the realize that adding more movement only did nothing to bard and harshly punished other classes.