Bard - they broke my job

[Clarkamite]

only that we cant anymore so it makes 0 sense

Don't have any numbers for you to give you a real good feel but the amount of DPS you can add with a Foe Rec more than makes up for whatever you would be missing in WD. Bard has the ability to give you an absolute monster increase of DPS just by singing a song so the tradeoff has to be that they do less. Otherwise there would be no point to running anything other than two Bards and two other DPS.

I can tell you from being a caster that with the way the game is scaling now, it's even more noticeable than it was before. What is normally a 3700 Fire IV all of a sudden becomes a 4400 Fire IV. If your group is like mine and runs two casters, that increase is made even more astronomical. Not saying it doesn't suck to feel underpowered compared to other DPS, because it does, but you can't really say too much about playing a job who's main draw was that they enhance the rest of the group. They were never meant to be a standout DPS monster by themselves.

[yamochan]

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well ill just say this read some pages back plz we discussed the whole support issue before we dont support the whole group with one song always just a part of it.

support from other classes is also very strong and to bring 2 BRDs makes very little sense. bring a BRD and a MCH well maybe but still not great bring a BRD and a NIN however is a very good enchance group without the LB debuff from dual classes. BRD is no support class it queues up as Dmg Dealer.

So that does still not explain the small WD cause we cant move all time anymore even with swapping in and out of WM and we are behind quite a bit in terms of dmg so closing that cap would be a start instead of making it even bigger as we can see...