Quote Originally Posted by RiceisNice View Post
Except that's FCoB, in 2.0. Current state of the game now, BRD and especially MCH are under performing for really no good reason. Alexander is projected to be around the same difficulty level as FCOB with echo. And the progress of getting into savage requires gear from normal mode. The assumption of alexander needing a BRD/MCH to fill in that role is just as bad as assuming that they won't be needed honestly.
For brd to not be needed the fights would have to be about 4 minutes in duration.

For brd to be not needed in a long fight, it would have to be riddled with downtime, but even then ( think back to t9 ) downtime suits us brds because we have 6 offensive buffs always coming off cd, and mp regening for the blm.

Yh the dps isn't comparable to dumy parses from other dps, but that will crash down with mechanics while bards will remain as it is. AND we'll get a buff....