Using AST's Expand in Light Party Duties

[Risvertasashi]

Well, you're explaining a different phenomenon entirely. The person I quoted claimed you can be top of the aggro without being top of the DPS as Bard solely because the job generates a lot of enmity

You're right in that it's the other way around. Modifiers are negative, otherwise all DPS jobs would be equal, and aggro actually would be a "better than nothing" way to gauge relative DPS.