Why are bards / Mechanists so... Sensitive? <_<

[Lillia]

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You know... I always considered and was fine with Bard being utility, a nice middle between it all if you will.... but what you just explained was nothing more than a TP/MP bottle with legs that's not even taken along for both the support and small bits of DPS it can push out which is sort of disappointing as.... I never really saw the job that way. Anyways, maybe I just didn't know the job as well as you do and should start reconsidering if it's something I want to really play as.

And to further explain before you say anything, I actually did feel like bard was able to do not the highest but decent numbers that wasn't behind or with a tank of all jobs unless of course the tank was an OT or the bard was just really bad.... :/

[Sessurea]

Anyways, maybe I just didn't know the job as well as you do and should start reconsidering if it's something I want to really play as.

nah u probably know it fine. Bard was a class where u could pull really great dps before, and you could consider yourself a "dps" and not just a "support dps" at times. I felt it was a nice balance and every brd was pretty happy then.

In those times a 3 min dummy parse was 500 dps for brd and somewhere in the low 600s for melee. Nowadays brd is like 800 at dummy while mellee is now 1100. It's as if se feel the significantly raised skill caps on other dps classes ( particularly blm and drg ) is going to make this difference in dps a lot smaller in a real fight. And for the most cases, the gap in a real fight IS a lot smaller. bard can be within 100 dps of other classes in real fights and usually is if everyone is playing good. But if other dps classes manage to reach near peak dps from optimisation of the fight then brd really will be relegated to support utterly and completely. I guess all this is to say theres less fun and e peen to brd now which is a shame. I honestly wish things would remain as they were and I guess I'm just trying to get used to the idea that I'm a support now. And support is only ever needed in raids which we don't have yet.

bard as it is would have been awesome if it was like this originally, but people picked bards for damage and got the support as a bonus. Now se are saying : Now you are mainly just a support. What I don't like is how hard bards have to try for their dps which now wont ever be notable or special. Good bard play should imo reward one with dps at least greater than what the OT can pull.

[Lillia]

I guess all this is to say theres less fun and e peen to brd now which is a shame. I honestly wish things would remain as they were and I guess I'm just trying to get used to the idea that I'm a support now. And support is only ever needed in raids which we don't have yet.

Yeah.. That's hitting me now too... because like I said before I always felt we were utility.. not just one side or the other. >.<