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[RiceisNice]

We are the ultimate chasers. Yes, there's a damage penalty involved, but we can drop WM at the touch of a button, and run down whatever happens to be trying to get away. A large portion of my kills are from gunning someone down as they run for their lives, and we are VERY good at that. When you use a BRDs spike damage to insta-gib a healer, and then turn your focus to another target? You often have two kills immediately after each other.

The moment you drop WM/GB, your damage plummets and starts to fluctuate big time. At this point (especially when we don't have damage penalty when attacking closer than 15 yards), you're better off just using feint while chasing down. But that's hardly exclusive to BRD since even SMN and BLM can do that too through dots or lethargy+procs (considering the enemy heals isn't present if you really are chasing them down).

Yes they can kill things outside of burst, better than MCH and probably SMN in some cases, but BLM can do much better outside of bursts (at the trade off that they don't particularly have fast bursts to begin with).

And lastly, don't take it this way, no one is saying that BRD isn't fine. But relative comparison, I wouldn't say it's as good as a BLM when considering potential and high play. The only job that truly needs to be tuned around to perform better is dork knight honestly, and some adjustments to BLM/WHM if they want to keep catering to cast times.