SE, please nerf Dancer if you aren't going to fix bard.

[Risvertasashi]

Uh........... If you nerf DNC by 800 rDPS, the job is dead. Like deader than dead.

The 5.1 patch buffs to the physical ranged were enough to make the 1% mathematically superior to doing double melee/double caster and dropping the role completely, but the role itself could stand to be buffed again because they’re still behind the rest of the jobs. If you take away that much rDPS from DNC, the job dies.

The DoT nerf BRD got in 5.1 wasn’t worth the “utility” they added back to it, in my opinion. However, I wasn’t expecting any physical ranged changes in 5.2 because they just buffed them. It needs buffed—don’t get me wrong—but so does the physical ranged role as a whole. The answer is not asking for nerfs to another job that is still at the bottom of the DPS charts compared to the other DPS.

Advocating to kill DNC is not the way to go.

So, let's tweak the numbers. What about a 600 DPS change, allowing BRD a 200 DPS lead?