How is this Balanced? (Bard)

[Dimitrii]

BRD's right now are in the same position SMN used to be in, in that they are very fearsome when their burst is available but laughably pathetic during the downtime between bursts. The SMN burst should not have been nerfed imo and BRD shouldnt now either. It has steps to set up making it very telegraphed like DRG burst and the FULLY BUFFED burst (like the one that melted OP) can only be done every 2 minutes cause of raging strikes as opposed to 90 seconds (meaning it only happens every other burst unless the BRD holds the burst till its up).

Then you take in factors such as whether or not ur target cleansed the dots b4 ur sidewinder hit (thus nerfing ur sidewinder), whether sidewinder and farshot crit, whether or not ur target los u in between burst wasting precious seconds or god forbid a tank decides to lock u down wasting time on ur buffs and negating the increased dmg and all of a sudden the dmg isnt as automatic as ppl make it out to be.

The use of blood for blood for this burst also represents an extreme danger during the burst to the bard as opposing dps can jump in to wreck you when they see it pop up (and since its +25% dmg taken u cant ride it out like u can sometimes on DRG who only take 10% therefore it may disrupt or nerf ur burst in needing to cancel it).

People see the pretty numbers in the burst and think omg the job is so overpowered nerf it nerf it! As bad ass as your GIF is making that BRD out to be that dude has like a 40% winrate this season lol, the job is fine as is.