I'm asking you if you are serious now. Dragon Kick is amazing for kicking down a peg, all those nasty magic based damaging abilities the bosses use in Fcob... I.e. Giga Flare, Nerve Cloud, Flames of Rebirth, Electric Burst, etc. That's just Dragon Kick... Can't forget about Mantra, which is also +20% raid wide healing potency increase! That is a massive amount of lee-way for healers on very tight healing encounters. Not to mention that an excellent monk should and would be doing roughly 100 more dps than a bard under all circumstances and with a dragoon, maybe--MAYBE 50-75 more than the bard. I wouldn't say a bard is needed, but if you are progressing, then you will suffer much without one. Double caster isn't bad either, but if you go double caster, you should bring a SMN, since they are excellent for progression / learning. I too find it difficult to believe that bards are an endangered species on your server, OP, but I don't play on Tonberry, so I wouldn't know.