Quote Originally Posted by kenventa View Post
QS is a nice skill but the additional 700 dps is not worth leveling a bard just to get quelling strikes, imo. I throw swift t3 (for boss battles) or start with t2 before i fire the enemy up to let the tank build agro. When i'm getting agro, i switch on another target just to cool things down a little. This is what i do for t4 or garuda EM. So there's an alternative if you don't have the skill yet. If you do, use it please. + BLM's DPS is dependent on RNG unlike other dps jobs. 3-5 crit procs can make a huge difference both in dmg and enmity.

Not sure if it's just me but quite a lot of people I know view a BLM without QS is being bad.