Bard "buff"

[HyperiusUltima]

The 10 Potency buff on BRD wasn't enough. Yoshida, your battle team needs to fix BRD big time because right now it's nothing but the butt of jokes along with the rest of the Physical Ranged DPS. DNC I can say is in a good spot to be honest with how its interactions and utilities go, but it shouldn't be shoving MCH or BRD of all things down. MCH in particular should NEVER be that low. If the disparity between a Ranged DPS and a RDM was 500, I'd honestly be ok with it - but when it's 1,000+, there's a problem that your team needs to address.

Bard

- DoTs were neutered in exchange for Songs, because of your 'fear' of recreating the Ranged Meta in Stormblood.
- Lv 80 Capstone is...bad. It cycles usually circa every 60s as is, but honestly just put a CD and give it a base potency so BRD isn't having to mess with gauges so much. Remember all the information clutter you guys talked about on the Buff Bar in Heavensward? Yeah. That's part of the problem here.
- 10 potency on Burst Arrow.

MCH

- Remade for a THIRD TIME, coming into this expansion as a completely different job.
- Selfish DPS akin to BLM/SAM that wants to just do damage. Oh, and has Tactician - which is supposedly something to be overtaxed for on top of "mobility".
- Desperately needs to be bumped up above the 'raid damage buff' DPS. Essentially above NIN(or close to it), but below MNK/DRG.

DNC

- New Job. Got the buffs it needed earlier in this expansion to single target damage.
- Still needs fixes to Improvisation for QoL - please make it like Meditate! We've been asking for it for a while so we don't have whacky numbers like 69 or 99(where Saber Dance literally costs 50).
- Overall in a good spot for what it does, but still needs increases to close RDM DPS Gap.

Ranged Meta will NEVER come back given how you all have set up the Ranged - incompatible raid mitigation(Samba can't stack damage resistance with Tactician, Troubadour) already discourages this. When we get to this new tier, I want to bet that Ranged are going to be edged out in favor of Casters because of gear creep like what happened in Titan in the first tier. In fact, there was a mention about the "1% Buff" that Ranged bring with them a while back - but Caster DPS can theoretically out DPS that 1% coming into next tier with how far gearing has gone. We didn't run into it in Shiva's tier, thankfully, but most of that was merely due to them being high mobility.