Bard - they broke my job

[Kelevra]

It was their damage though. Unnerfed cross-class B4B and IR, at a time when melee were incredibly weaker than their 2.1 (and future) versions, and in general there was no mechanic that was more streamlined or simpler with a 2X melee comp over mostly ranged ... it was not a good time for ranged vs melee balance.

Not disagreeing, but that was two years ago...

While SE was buffing and fine tuning Mnk and Drg through updates during 2.X, they should have been "unnerfing" Brd little by little. Not saying they should have ultimately reverted Brd back to the way it was at 2.0 release over time, but going through most of the 2.X updates post 2.1....and leaving Brd largely untouched was piss poor. It was hard to notice back then, but when the xpac dropped...the lack of attention through said updates had added up and it was way too obvious.

As someone that has embraced Minuet, and still plays and raid with Brd, the gap between there dps and that of casters/melee shouldn't be the way it is currently (being placed in an isolated box along with Mch is unfair----they are still dps b4 anything else). The Minuet tweak to 30% was a step in the right direction....but it's still 30%. And that's just to keep Brd close to where they were in terms of dealing dmg b4 the xpac came out. This may be ok for dungeons and DF, but for someone that also raids like myself...I think Brd could still use some improvements Dps wise.

....change the end game meta to "moar dps," "moar dps," "moar dps" but keep Brd on the end of the spectrum where they mostly contribute the least amount of dmg among dps over a long fight (while making it so a War can contribute as much as a Brd---if not more at times), not cool

....making it so most dps jobs now bring at least one very useful "utility" to a party but still only penalize Brd for their's, also not cool