How does Bard keep up with the massive damage in A2s?

[aabe]

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Quick look at this shows BRD is close/on par with melee in A2S
From what I see most groups would put the DRG in gobwalker because it has the hardest time keeping resources up while AoEing, NIN could go in too due to just having weak aoe.
Really at this point it doesn't matter who you stick in the gobwalker as long as it's not a caster, but BRD provides foes which effects what are by far the strongest DPS in A2.
My group does WHM -> BRD -> MNK though, I go into the second one because I'm pretty dried out on resources + cooldowns and once I get back out I have everything up + full mana + battlevoice.

[Sessurea]

1600 is exceptional for a Bard

if u doin 1200-1300, I think the issue is somewhere else

even 1k+ is fine. The problem is definitely elsewhere. Main thing is caster. BLM in my group does 2k there. Apparently smns do even more. our monk foes 1600+.