Quote Originally Posted by Mholito View Post
Paeon is, as you are obviously aware of, a dps-loss for the bard, which counts as a someone sacrificing their damage output for the sake of sustainability. How big of a dps-loss is using Energy drain over Fester anyway? Especially if you make sure to only use Energy Drain when you know that your MP isn't going to overflow from it and Aetherflow.
Paeon for 5 people = huge raid DPS gain, even counting the BRD DPS loss
Ballad for SMN = small raid DPS LOSS, BRD loses more than SMN gains
Energy Drains on SMN = medium DPS loss for SMN, which is bad because their DPS is already low-end

You can't compare TP user resource management to SMN MP management in the current system, TP users have it much better than SMN.