Jobs are balanced equally and no class is considered meta.

[Ama_Hamada]

If you are going to claim brd doesn't need dots, do a little more research before you make those statements. To say the only warning for brd burst is the cast time is also false. Their buffs (barrage mostly), position, dots, and cast time are all very telling. They have to be within 15y yalms for maximum damage, and because emp is also a cast time, if they want to kill a fleeing target, they have to get pretty close or bind (make their burst even more obvious) to 100 -> 0.

Sidewinder requires the dots to do efficient damage. Bard's burst combo is Emp Arrow -> Farshot -> Sidewinder -> Other attacks, sidewinder is the nail in the coffin of the burst combo. It speeds up the animation and damage application of farshot, it makes all of them land seamlessly and nearly the same time, creating the 100 -> 0 scenario.

BRD is the noob killer, only OP to the unknowing/lesser skill. At higher levels, BRD just gets shutdown, especially against a PLD/DRK. Meaning they have a 66% (theoretically) chance in feast games to go against a job that will negate them harshly.

Between the eyes prior to nerf commonly hit for 3-5.5k, buffed ones that is, as it should be. MCH is not useless without, granted it helps their toolkit, but they have more than just BTE going for them.

I said you do not need dots in PvP to kill someone near instant, I am well aware of what that ability says. Really note how I said in PvP, in PvE of course you only use that with both dots on the target. I would not stand there saying "do a little more research before you make those statements." because you do not understand what I mean. The dots are of course helpful and easier but if you want to be a bit more unexpected, you do not need them. I am going by what I seen in pvp, not theroycrafting saying a potency 100 ability is useless.

Outside of Between the eyes MCH is useless and easy to heal through.