I'm disgusted with the bard nerf.

[Ryans]

on par with blm? lol. u have no idea. let me break it down for u. currently with similarly geared bard and blms, blms will out damage bards by about 30-50k. The damage hierarchy goes like this SMN>BLM=MNK>BRD>DRG. its not much of a nerf but bards didnt need this nerf to begin with.

I'm not sure you are actually parsing things if that's what you think the hierarchy is and I'm not talking about training dummy damage. Blm is by far and large the highest single target DD. Archer is second place simply because it never has to stop for any reason, then SMN if they actually know how to play (I've seen very few smns who know how to, however), then drg only because it's easier to sustain maximum dps than monk on bosses because of how often monk loses Greased Lightning.

Sure, under optimal conditions your hierarchy might be correct, but nothing worth doing has optimal conditions.