Quote Originally Posted by Adormus View Post
For the love of everything, please no! 5% is in no way "low". That'd be an awesome group buff, which would just destroy the Bards personal DPS.
I fail to understand how a 5% increase would be to much, on average a Bard will probably do about 300~ dmg per mob with an AoE (assuming no buffs are active), adding 5% more is a paltry 15 additional damage, assuming full buffs, thats about 600-800 damage with a Crit landing and even that is barely adding 30-40 damage per hit. If anything it'd be a bigger buff for BLMs, 2500+ Crit Flares? That's 125 damage added. I fail to see how a 5% increase in damage vulnerability will be a bad thing. But even still, no buff/debuff in this game lasts longer than 30s that I can think of off the top of my head, but you wouldn't even NEED 30s to clear a group of mobs unless all of your dps have shit for weapons, in which case the 5% increase would be doing them literally next to no good.