Bard in the party... thoughts?

[Kelevra]

The true "issue" for BRD here is just the current meta, i mean, 2 meles + 1 ranged + 1 mage. Why this meta?
--Melee comp brings better overall DPS than Mage comp. (Mages just bring personal DPS in terms of overall DPS, They don't have tools like Trick Attack, Battle Litany, Dissembowel, Dragon Kick...etc)

BRD can't be the master of everything, i mean, BRD can't be better than MCH doing enything...BRD is really good with 2 mages comp, but MCH is better with 2 meles, just that. Current BRD's state is a direct consecuence of current meta, it's not by the personal state of BRD/MCH themselves.

BRD doesn't need buffs because current state, maybe in the future 2 mages comp could be the popular meta and the BRD turns into "Best support of the patch".

The 'typical' 8 man composition consisting of 2 physical melee, one physical ranged, and one caster has been common for a while though. If we're talking end game raid, there some that may run one physical ranged, one physical melee, and two casters...but it doesn't happen often (not to my own experience anyway). There are some that would try one melee (no Drg), one caster, two ranged...rarely see these, if ever. The 'current meta' as far dps comp goes isn't something that just started recently.

However, if the Piercing debuff was shared...that could change. And not for the worst. Parties wouldn't always have to try and seek out a Drg for one of there melee spots to always accommodate the ranged dps (if that ranged dps happened to be Brd and Brd was given access to the piercing debuff). May also get to see more compositions featuring both a Machinist and a Bard...seeing as Machinist is really good now. Machinist and Bard would be able to benefit each other in a composition like that.