How is this Balanced? (Bard)

[Dimitrii]

It should be about returns on skill. The more skill you have with the class, the more damage you should do. When someone says "Wow that's a good melee/MCH" you know there's a degree of skill the player has which can't be achieved in one conversation. When someone says "Wow that's a good BRD" they actually mean the BRD hoards all his CD's until barrage is up.

Is this a typo and you meant to actually put BLM there or something? Both MCH and BRD burst are equally cheezy. Its just with BRD if you have tanks/whms/cc users paying attention you can actually shut down a significant portion of BRD burst before it even goes off. Barrage has a 10 sec duration and is a major source of that burst. No other job that I'm aware of can have such a significant part of their burst totally prevented by situational awareness. The other half of the burst is no scarier than what jobs like DRG can already do. If you wanna nerf shit then nerf ALL jobs to have a dmg cap of 3 to 4k on any one ability then and enjoy your battles of attritions between heals. Because in the end that is what everyone is complaining about. They complained about it from WAR when they were able to hit 6k+ dmg in PVP and are complaining about it from BRD barrage/Empyreal Arrow and MCH Between the Eyes. Dont be disingenuous we all know no one would give two shits about the Farshot/Sidewinder/Misery's End/Bloodletter/etc portion of the burst had the Barrage+Empyreal Arrow part not existed.