Bard utility

[Kitfox]

Hi. I was wondering if anyone have done the numbers on how much the bard can increase the overalt dps of the team. I am currently raiding as a samurai. But I realy enjoy the bard and want to find out how much the total raid dps might drop or increase if I switch Jobs when I get my bard to 70.

Looking at one of my resent Susano Ex fights:
Foe Requiem ~18% uptime at 3% increase → 0.18 x 0.03 = 0.0054 = 0.54% increase
Battle Voice ~14% uptime at 15% direct hit bonus and DH has x1.25 multiplier → 0.14 x 0.15 x 0.25 = 0.00525 = 0.525% increase
Crit up from any song ~100% uptime 2% crit rate up with an estimated modest multiplier x1.50 (not sure what the actual value is at SB) → 1.0 x 0.02 x 0.50 = 0.01 = 1% increase

For that particular fight you could probably estimate total rDPS increase of roughly 2% from BRD utility though it's probably a bit higher due to buff stacking. Taking 2% of 20000 rDPS amounts to about 400 dps. Looking at FFlogs parsing at 90th percentile, adding 400 dps to BRDs personal contribution puts them at 3340 + 400 = 3740 while SAM holds the top spot with 3924.

Just rough napkin math to have an estimate.