Bard - they broke my job

[Judge_Xero]

You can let wb and vb run its full course before having to refresh it. You can't with IJ, or at least the window is much smaller, because it requires the DoTs to still be on the mob as its being casted.

And when you're comparing bard potency to dragoon, don't forget they're still auto attacking with heavy thrust and disembowel attached to it.

The IJ refresh window is definitely small, but if you refresh with <1s left then there should be no lost potency as you can fit your 6 ticks within 0-18s, whether the ticks are at 0.1s and 17.1s, or 1s and 18s. Which should technically be tighter than refreshing them individually, due to using them one after another because of the difference in the GCD and Dot timers, there is a risk of losing a tick on the second dot by refreshing too early, or losing a tick on the first one by refreshing to late.

I didn't want to get too in depth comparing classes with IAC to Melee combo's but you are correct. I just wanted to compare it in it's basic form, otherwise I'd open a door to, "well X class has higher uptime of buffs and if you include NIN, TA buff then X class has higher burst".

But that's why I instead gave Leader Board endgame DPS values, to show how it reflects in actual content.

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How do people feel about those numbers? Is it a good representation of where BRD DPS currently is compared to other classes? I hope no one feels they are cherry picked, as I just pulled them from my world database. Other worlds may vary. But I don't feel that it shows BRD is that much behind compared to how people feel it is. I feel that it even closer to other classes than in 2.0.

If they could fix SS procs, alter some other skill to be instant cast to increase movement and through that improve oGCD weaving then BRD will be a beast of a class, with only slightly less freedom of movement than in 2.0