Bard - they broke my job

[MrYaah]

1239 DPS Bard in A1

Didn't they break the Bard job? That guy just did 1239 DPS.

before the oppressors spawned the bard had already dropped to 1170 dps. Also the way they kept the oppressors together until they died is super op for the bards dps since he could hit both with his rain of death spam that resulted from having 4 dots up. Its a HUGE dps gain for bard in its current state. Also, using his dps as an example of why the class is in a good place is a faulty argument in my opinion, it does show that bard dps is decent which I don't dispute and I argue against it when the various forum idiots complain to that extent.

That being said, handling bloodletters in minuet is freaking trash right now Aikaal. The only reason bard dps is decent is because they buffed the damage to compensate for the shit rotation, theres no real hope of a decent consistent rotation on bard. It literally feels like your rotation is essentially damage control for your ogcds where you're constantly trying to best fix problems introduced by poorly timed bloodletter procs. Square enix can say get good all they want but it doesn't make them right.