Another Bard post, changing mains? Discuss!

[Kitkat]

Honestly, I've never been one to feel brd should be over the top DPS, but my primary...and still existing complaint is that weapon damage is still lacking. I'm glad they lowered the debuff of Paeon/ballad to 15% instead of 20%, but with still lowest weapon damage out of any other job prior to 2.0 (which even machinist ended up with) it begs to wonder what their reasoning is.

WP isn't too bad as far as I'm concerned as it is a nice boost in damage. While this translates to DoTs (along with Skill speed change) it doesn't necessarily inch brd up that much in comparison to other jobs either.

A lot of fundamental changes to certain job playstyles went out with 3.0 and I can only hope that as Alexander and a few other things come out that they make more sense. I have no problem filling a niche role, but the disparity in damage is and always has been noticeable.

[SonTensei]

When you play with really high end healers who manage mana very efficiently, bards/mch wont be needed. maybe for progression, but once people got the fights on farm you will see people not using bards/mch at all due to low dps.

[Scyris]

When you play with really high end healers who manage mana very efficiently, bards/mch wont be needed. maybe for progression, but once people got the fights on farm you will see people not using bards/mch at all due to low dps.

This makes me sadface, I already was considering dropping bard due to the changes, but stuff like this just makes me want to do it more, my bard is my main at 53 almost 54, but I am thinking of just dropping it for now and leveling my paladin to 60, maybe by then square will get their crap together and fix bard to be viable.