Quote Originally Posted by savant07 View Post
Effective DPS is dependent on each encounter. The only encounter where your "effective" dps of other classes might go down is Titan. Any fight in Coil, every class can pretty much output almost max if not max DPS. There aren't a lot of anti melee mechanics there and not a lot of Titan-esque abilities. So no, they are not HIGH effective DPS, they are low outside of Titan.
Titan is not the only fight affected by mobility, and you completely ignored the indirect (but significant) increase in party damage from the bard utility skills.

Rage and rant as much as you want, but bards will still be good