Quote Originally Posted by Shadowzanon View Post
I would want to point out one thing. Bards can outdps even dragoons and monks. They can pull some really high numbers in the hands of a skilled player and well our t8 team shows this, one of our bards is just darn good at what he does and he can put melee dps to shame. we have another bard who is just a tp battery in the fight, still pulls high numbers but due to him and well the dragoon our other bard who focuses on foe requim outdpses them. it is also stunning how huge of a gap blm dps is to the rest even with foe requim up and battlevoiced twice during t8 fight. using pots and everything at my disposal to a near perfect rotation im still lagging behind by far. we do need something atleast for sustain dps on single targets.
That's because BLM has something that most other dps classes don't and that's a consistent downtime that they have to pay for their primary rotation.

BLM primary rotation is a small burst with a small 6 second downtine . Yet BLMs expend their resources faster and can regenerate it quickly enough to keep a steady rotation. Their secondary big burst rotation that can only be used once every 5minutes has a bigger downtine than that.

No other DPS suffers from this that badly. The one that comes close is Dragoon's reliance on life-surge for that necessary buffed full thrust crit.

The only thing the rest of the dps suffer from is from a slow uptime, keeping dots in check, and the downtine of their buffs.