Changes to Bard I'd like to see in 5.1/overall

[HyoMinPark]

Not to mention, not allowing the two to stack would have the possibility for extremely negative consequences in pug groups. In other words, if the DNC’s Technical Finish was overwritten by a BRD buff, then the DNC loses a crap ton of rDPS contribution, not to mention the pDPS it will lose from no longer getting Esprit from the party or their Dance Partner. It’s already bad enough when I’m paired with another DNC in random groups and my Tech Finish gets overwritten by theirs—I wouldn’t want this to be a thing with BRD, too.

[Rika007]

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I'm seriously not understanding everyone's fear about Bard becoming so massively OP 'again'. Every time I ask why it's: "Look at the history, it has been present in every meta since the game started." So has freaking Ninja. DRG hasn't dropped from the meta since 3.0. Half the time Bard was meta was because it had legitimately no competition for it's spot. 2.0 Bard was the only physical ranged and source of MP regen in the game. 4.0 Bard got most of it's time in the spotlight due to a version of Machinist that no one liked. And now 5.0 Bard has had half of it's kit and identity gutted and anyone who doesn't play Bard is like, "That's fine, it was too OP so it's identity really doesn't matter." It's infuriating.

[Mansion]

Not to mention, not allowing the two to stack would have the possibility for extremely negative consequences in pug groups. In other words, if the DNC’s Technical Finish was overwritten by a BRD buff, then the DNC loses a crap ton of rDPS contribution, not to mention the pDPS it will lose from no longer getting Esprit from the party or their Dance Partner. It’s already bad enough when I’m paired with another DNC in random groups and my Tech Finish gets overwritten by theirs—I wouldn’t want this to be a thing with BRD, too.

I forgot this actually! I did not think about PUGs at all. My concern was that, if we are to bring Bard and Dancer to a close rDPS, with strong support tools that stack (and thus, multiply) then it would be hard to justify not having that buff bomb duo in your party. If we are to keep two melee and two ranged, with melee as strong as they currently are, and ranged as clunky as they currently are... this just shifts the problem around.
I might be going out of topic now, but I guess that bringing strong support skills to Bards implies further delicate balancing work, and the current situation kind of show how bad the balance is for DPS (especially ranged)