Quote Originally Posted by GunksFoy View Post
Heavy Thrust is already 10%. And I disagree with this. Most people outside the forums don't really care about meta, and bard and machinist are still valuable to a group even without a dragoon. They're DPS isn't that bad. Bard is pretty low, but Machinist ranks pretty middle of the road, with or without Disembowel.
Most people outside the forums? I mean, if that means most people outside Savage too, then sure. But we don't and shouldn't balance solely around casual content.

DPS Job rankings in Sigmascape based on popularity (total uploads) over the last two weeks:
BRD: 42k
DRG: 37k
NIN: 31k
SMN: 24k
RDM: 19k
SAM: 17k
MNK:16k
BLM: 16k
MCH: 11k
(Sauce: https://www.fflogs.com/statistics/21 )

People like Bards. And Bards like not having 5% of their damage gone for no reason. Oops, I mean having a dragoon.