"closing the DPS gap"

[Hamada]

Hyperbole aside... By fault of the system, no. By fault of the player (the shit Bard), yes.

But the only remedy for that is training, and not ceding to the lowestdenominator.

Admittedly, there are concerns that contribute to "skill" gap that have nothing to do with thought, nuance, decisiveness, calculation, etc., but rather just being better able to hit the keys one wants to hit better than the next guy, where the gap could be reduced by simply reducing the amount of false option keys. But the rest? Is there really an issue with a someone who actually understands the priority system of his skills, CD sync, and his possible interactions with the given fight doing better than someone who can't be bothered to think about it or practice his job? Everything that isn't part of "just hitting buttons more accurately" is part of that.

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

So you are misusing the term or doubting it really happened and yes it is very literal and 1200 is a literal dps aoe number that this one i270 brd pulled off in an expert.

Anyways we can also take this closing the dps gap with not allowing people to wear the wrong right side. That is good and all but still what about ilevel dodging the left? People put underleveled left a lot only to be carried by high ilevel on the right since the right is easier to get. Having a brd (different story now and yes this is literal numbers) in a level 60 df, last patch expert, The Great Gubal Library hard, with a bard pulling 275 DPS on bosses and 400s for aoe because in large part having a level 52 weapon (and rotations since level 50 at 50 sync can do 400-700 dps)This happened yesterday, btw.