Quote Originally Posted by Minako_Nightsong View Post
On the SSS dummy today I did avg 4300 as 361 BRD
To give a bit of insight/advice on BRD—I’m not sure what your gear and your melds look like, but the amount of crit you have on BRD goes a long way towards your damage. More crit = more Repertoire, which BRD revolves fully around that mechanic. If you are low on crit, you will have lower proc chances (and this can even happen with high crit when RNG is just being a complete buttface). I can have the best opener in the world one pull (3 3-stack PPs, Barrage+Refulgent) and then the next have a trash-tier burst (1 3-stack PP that I partially forced with the EA trait and no Barrage+Refulgent)...and I am best in slot.

It could also be that your gear/melds are perfectly fine for your item level, and that RNG was just being a buttface and giving you a shoddy opener in your ~4,300 try.

Also keep in mind that a BRD’s damage is going to be 5% lower on a dummy because you do not have access to piercing. And a lot of their damage comes from snapshotting their DoTs with raid buffs via Iron Jaws. BRD is a tricky job, in my opinion, to fully gauge skill on a 3-minute striking dummy because there can be a lot of variance between each pull. If you only did 1 or 2 runs, I would recommend trying a few more to see if your number fluctuates with RNG being kind versus RNG not being kind. Keep in mind what I said about piercing as well—5% may not seem like a lot, but it can make a difference.