Yoshi-P Sanpo comments re: Bard

[MPNZ]

I think people are unhappy with BRD because of its low damage contribution. BRD would be in a better spot if it was a selfish dps like MCH and had its songs changed from party-wide to self-buffs.

It's partially its overall damage contribution and that of the entire ranged physical category as a whole. But, shifting the whole role into being selfish-DPS classes would just end up circling like back to its issues at launch: Lore deletion, false advertising, and being too selfish and lacking in party support

[Akiudo]

It's partially its overall damage contribution and that of the entire ranged physical category as a whole. But, shifting the whole role into being selfish-DPS classes would just end up circling like back to its issues at launch: Lore deletion, false advertising, and being too selfish and lacking in party support

it also wouldn't change the problem as long as overall dps is not raised, i know some people are big on the whole "selfish classes" topping the meter, but there is no real reason why selfish classes should have both the highest personal and highest raid dps contribution, at best there is nothing that necessites as much, at worst it just ends up in "supporting clasess" allways being worse.

of course things like actual utility support (so things like curing waltz, armys paeon, useless as it is..., maybe give bard the regen song our teacher used in a class quest with the next addon?) should count somewhat against total dps, but talking purely on a "has dps buffs" level theres zero reason why total raid contribution should be lower than on a "pure" class.

so no, bard would not be in a better spot if it was a selfish dps, bard would be in a better spot if its dps was raised, doesn't matter if through personal damage or group buffs.