Dps comparison

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Also, I have no idea where this idea that BRD has great AoE dps came from, they DO NOT.

This. While most of the classes are somewhat competent in the aoe dmg department, BLM just totally outclasses everything other jobs can throw out. While I get that people need to run dungeons on all classes, I never understood why people specifically recruited bards for speed runs. There's just no competition against BLM+BLM setup.