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

[Samsta]

The only reason MCH is in a weird spot is because 'ranged class' and 'high personal DPS' is a design oxymoron to the community. As long as people insist that ranged DPS need to do much lower damage relative to the other classes, MCH is going to remain a relatively disjointed class.

It doesn't necessarily need to deal as much personal dps as other personal dps jobs, but it should deal more relative to other ranged physicals, I dunno how that is so hard, make it deal as much personal dps as blm and samurai and then take the "ranged physical" tax from it, shouldn't be hard.

[Rika007]

It doesn't necessarily need to deal as much personal dps as other personal dps jobs, but it should deal more relative to other ranged physicals, I dunno how that is so hard, make it deal as much personal dps as blm and samurai and then take the "ranged physical" tax from it, shouldn't be hard.

The issue is that you're then basically still putting it in a position of "But why do I bring MCH when it offers literally nothing." Current fight design makes the Ranged mobility tax look like a joke. Melee uptime is damn near 100% in all fights, and intelligent casters pretty much never miss a cast with the amount of tools they get to afford mobility. You would need to essentially give MCH a damage level that is just a shade below Black Mage/Samurai to justify it's inclusion over BRD/Dancer (assuming they get buffed and bring back BRD's support). But then a very large portion of the player base would say it's unfair that MCH deals more personal damage then MNK, SMN or DRG while it can dance all over the field.

The issue is now is you really can't just balance the jobs within their own role anymore. That's what they have tried to do in SHB, and it has led to the most unbalanced dps state we have seen in the games history.