question on something Yoshi-p said

[RiceisNice]

Yoshi-p said in a live letter I believe that support classes don't do as much dps as pure dps.

If bard never had to use Mage's Ballad or Army's Paeon, or if machinist never had to use Promotion or Distmantle. Would bard and machinist do equal damage to dragoon, ninja, blackmage, monk, etc...??

Their stance on BRD (and by extension, MCH dps) has been shifting left and right, that I'm honestly confused on what they want. They do less dps either due to their more flexible movement (which imo is a bad reason to tax their dps), or they do less dps because of their "support" role (which is double taxxing since said support abilities reduce their damage anyway). They couldn't settle with a specific reason and keep dancing between those two.

[Kuwagami]

snip.

in early 2.0 bards had the same dps than any of the other jobs, and thus you had no reason to bring anything else in raids. 3 bards 1 mage, 2 bards, 2 mages or 2 bards, 1 mage 1 melee (for lb) was the norm.

Then they got hammer nerfed to what they are now

[RiceisNice]

in early 2.0 bards had the same dps than any of the other jobs, and thus you had no reason to bring anything else in raids. 3 bards 1 mage, 2 bards, 2 mages or 2 bards, 1 mage 1 melee (for lb) was the norm.

Then they got hammer nerfed to what they are now

There's more workings than just straight up damage for that to happen though, such as the utility they bring (damage down and a reliable silence which was needed in eariler encounters), or what the fights throw out (unavoidable damge at melee range, such as garuda's wicked wheel). Otherwise this principle could be applied to any job that has top dps for now. The reason people aren't stacking X jobs is because everyone now brings something to the table aside from just dps.