Bard Openning

[Furious]

i'm not sure what game you are playing but paladin's job is to tank. And i can guarantee that a 360 potency attack from a paladin does significantly less than any attack from my bard. (ok just tested it for you, my 314 paladin vs my 316 bard, straight shot which is my filler did over 100 damage more than my paladin's royal authority despite only being a 100 potency attack. 2200 average straight shot, 2000-2100 average royal authority) that was also with fight or flight up from my paladin, and zero buffs up on my bard. Your arguement holds no water because despite having a higher potency the attack has significantly lower multipliers on the paladin.

The paladin's stun is on-gcd, interrupts 3-ability combos, and causes abilities to fall outside of buffed states. Their off-gcd stun causes them to lose an important defensive ability that allows them to take less damage, whether doing big aoe pulls in dungeons or tanking bosses.

Your stun causes you to lose.. nothing. A 2 minute moderate self-heal. You don't lose potency by using an ogcd stun, or at the very most you MIGHT push back one ogcd ability by 1 second. You have no combo abilities to interrupt and even if you did, your stun is ogcd and wouldn't interrupt them. Besides niche cases using an ogcd stun will never cause you to lose damage (unless you aren't good at managing your ogcd cooldowns).

Your argument holds no water because it is stupid. I listed the potencies not to compare with you as a bard, but to outline how much damage they lose of their own. It would be stupid to think that I was trying to say that the pld potencies are equal to bard potencies, because the bard stun does not cause you to lose potency. To spell it out for you, imagine yourself losing 1.2 refulgent arrows worth of damage (as a percentage of your own total damage) every time you have to stun.

It's kind of a silly argument in general thus far, since there have been no mandatory stuns so far in stormblood anyway.