Buff Bards or Riot

[Edellis]

^ Yeah

Square is just going to have to bite the bullet, and decide to phase out the old 2.0 playstyle.

The other DPS classes all got some serious deeps increases, while all of bards skills from 51-57 have been geared soley towards dps, which is completely opposite of its 2.0 job skills. But the skills seem to be trying to not completely invalidate off-stance while at the same time being DPS increases, and it just isn't working too well when other classes are getting 100% straight DPS boosts with every added skill.

They need to either buff minuet or lower the implied reliance on it and buff them both. It takes nearly until Lv56 for Wanderer's Minuet to compensate for loss of AA's in the old style of gameplay. That alone is why their DPS is faltering behind. The other classes are taking strides forward, while BRD is just dancing around itself.