Highest DPS vs most fun

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What makes them useful if bad dps?

Songs to regenerate party TP and MP, and they can move while attacking which means they can deal with boss mechanics without losing damage output. And their DPS certainly isn't bad - they have very respectable burst DPS when using some cooldowns and with the Dragoon's Disembowel debuff on the target it's more than fine (dragoons and bards are friends - they give us TP and we give them 15% more damage).

I've mained DRG since forever and I love it, partly because I can put out insane amounts of damage and partly because it's so gloriously difficult to learn how to do properly. It's the same reason I prefer SCH over WHM when healing - there's just more to get right and more that can go wrong if you don't.