Quote Originally Posted by UBERHAXED View Post
The DPS of bard improving does not affect the DPS of MCH whatsoever, there is no "disadvantage". That like saying "Bard is at a HUGE!1!! disadvantage when there is a summoner in the party in A2S!!!!", which is clearly false... Then you ask, "how is bard related to summoner?". And I rebuttal with "How is MCH related to BRD?". Of course you'll reply "They are both ranged". And then upon realizing that SMN is ranged, you'll see that it doesn't matter. You don't see BLMs complain about SMN in similar situations because it's a non-issue. It's kind of hard to make all class the same dps, when all of them (barring all 3 melee classes) have RNG elements. Because of this simple impossibility there will be a natural ordering of the classes, where in certain situations, one class will be better than another class. And even then, some classes in very out of the norm situations can get unnaturally high dps just by favor of RNG (which was likely the case when you see bard at the top of the distribution, but not in general). I also could make the case that monk is at a disadvantage to bard when in a multi-target scenario, but no one would care, similar to you're argument with MCH.
I see you like arguing just for the sake of arguing. MCH and BRD are categorized together because they both perform the same function. Restoration of resources. Any progression group will only have one or the other so they are compared to one another. The problem here is not that BRDs perform better in certain fights, its they perform better in every fight. In a normal progression scenario BRD will do more personal DPS and has foes to boost casters further solidifying their status at the top. While MCH may have hyper charge, it really does not keep up with BV foes which can be used 3 times in A3S and A4S.

And again I will say, do not put words in my mouth.