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

[Maero]

Moreso they should tweak Bard and not touch DNC. DNC is still low dps wise despite it's utility.
Ranged overall needs more attention which despite they having stated they would be reworked we know what the outcome was.

[Rai_Takara]

I don't see why phys ranged need a buff because they have 100% uptime and as such should be limited to only 1 per group. Otherwise the ease of which they can solve mechanics and do dps would be ludicrous. We do enough damage to warrant the 1%, our dps after that is arbitrary.

[Jukebox12]

We should be talking about buffing mcu by 300-600

[Silverquick]

My question is... why exactly did they remove the MP regen from Bard?

That used to be a HUGE part of the toolkit with it. That one thing alone allowed Healers specifically to never be shy on MP no matter how much they would output. And it would be a huge help to RDMs too when they have to do a lot of Ressing. Hell big for BLMs too because they might be able to squeeze another Fire 4 out in their rotation.

There's just soo much that use to be good for as far as utility that's gone now.

[Jkap_Goat]

this game will never have perfect balance

[Ramura_Sono]

this game will never have perfect balance

Nor will any game. But that's no reason not to try.

[Miziliti]

Let me sum up op's mentality: my job is shit, so every other jobs should be shit.

NO ONE in physical range role needed nerf. ALL THREE deserve more buff and fine tuning. The thing is BRD's support songs are still as tiny and almost non-existent as the beginning of ShB, but damage got gutted even more because of the songs. MCH got nothing but a tiny party defense buff that the other two also have, but paid a price of lower damage because of it. DNC's buff is the only thing that can be call a support buff. DNC is the only one I think can go on without much adjustment. MCH definitely needs some dps buff to compete with casters (not BLM). BRD is just messed up and dev needs to decide if they wanted it to go with the DNC path by strengthening the songs or give it more damage by having mediocre songs.

[Jkap_Goat]

Nor will any game. But that's no reason not to try.

you end up with perfect balance, you end up with jobs feeling the same from each other which FFXIV suffers from greatly

[BloodRubyXII]

Let me sum up op's mentality: my job is shit, so every other jobs should be shit.

NO ONE in physical range role needed nerf. ALL THREE deserve more buff and fine tuning. The thing is BRD's support songs are still as tiny and almost non-existent as the beginning of ShB, but damage got gutted even more because of the songs. MCH got nothing but a tiny party defense buff that the other two also have, but paid a price of lower damage because of it. DNC's buff is the only thing that can be call a support buff. DNC is the only one I think can go on without much adjustment. MCH definitely needs some dps buff to compete with casters (not BLM). BRD is just messed up and dev needs to decide if they wanted it to go with the DNC path by strengthening the songs or give it more damage by having mediocre songs.

It was a classic SE gigabrain move.

"Ye can we have a bit more utility please"

>Proceeds to buff songs only to completely offset it with other personal dps nerfs.

[Videra]

How about we don't kill Dancer and instead buff BRD to be relatively equal? Similarly with Machinist. The entire role suffers as is.

No? Does that make too much sense?