"New" Bard.

[Lastelli]

There were BRD mains that acknowledged that the job had issues with powercreep and crit scaling back in SB. I agree that 4.0 BRD is my favorite iteration of the job, but something had to be done to address that. Unfortunately, their re-addition of our song utility cost us DoT potency, which hurt BRD’s total damage and raid contribution more than I think the developers realized. It’s not uncommon to see it below DNC now at higher percentiles.

The problem is that the way brd procs work, it's still hard to balance. In Alex Ultimate it's an op abomination because of multidotting, and it's by far the highest ranged dps. How do you balance a job like this when any scenario with 2-3 targets directly results in brd doing more dps than melee jobs?