Anyone have bard as main?

[Sylvain]

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I agree I did pick the worst job for comparaison XD

What I mean is, other job can very easily screw up.
A mudra can easily be messed up by accident
Loosing blood of the dragon can hurt if your cooldown isn't about to come back.
Casting too many Mega Ruin can run you oom and unable to dps.
Basic mistake, as basic as dropping your dot, but mistakes many average player do.

I didn't say it doesn't have consequence, as you very well explained, it will hurt. But the fact that you can reapply the dot right off dimishes the dps loss compared to what other job might suffer from failing something. You won't be denied your proc for 1min if your DoT wears off for 1sec.

I agree that dps is more than just keeping your dots and stuff, what you pointed basically makes the difference between a good bard and a great bard. But being myself a casual bard, I answered what I thought would be relevent to the poster.