Quote Originally Posted by Exterium View Post
It does feel extremelly weak while leveling.

I'm kinda ok with the brd damage on long encounters (very long in fact), but in short combats/leveling, it feels very very very weak compared to anything else I've been with.

AA hits for 1k, usually less, both dots at the same time hit for around 1400, empyreal arrow hits for a bit more than 2k, I've seen direct hit crit sidewinders not even reaching 5k, the same with our execute, hitting for just a bit more than 2k.

The biggest hit we can land is pitch perfect, and I've seen a lot of encounters where it just won't get 3 charges (though I ussualy use it on 2 so I don't waste a possible 4th charge), that means more than 90 seconds without a big pitch perfect.

Throwing a lot of shit to the enemy doesn't mean good damage, I won't argue that it's fun to play, I enjoy the gameplay, but I do feel at the same time that I'm pretty weak.
I'm not going to claim that you're wrong, because I don't have data on the damage I'm doing and neither do you since ACT is still broken.

I am going to say that I've tanked 90% of the PotD I have done from 50 to 60 that didn't have an actual tank in them, and definitely the bosses.

You say "throwing a lot of shit to the enemy doesn't mean good damage"; I'm going to say "neither does doing a big hit every now and then". Quantity and quality are both equally valid means of reaching the same sum. Stop worrying about it until you actually have the numbers in front of you.

However, there are two things I would say:
1. If you feel you are being outdamaged by a war and a whm you might also look into what you are doing wrong.
2. Stop looking for giant numbers on a class that revolves around ogcd resets.
3. Don't expect to be top dps as bard, when the class has so many buffs for the entire group.