Quote Originally Posted by Connor View Post
A DPS cannot have a GCD buff ability, because even if it’s useful it’ll be avoided at all costs due to DPS loss. Bard 2.0 - 3.0 kinda made this apparent with old songs, using anything other than Requiem any time the party wasn’t just raised was ‘bad’ because of the DPS loss. Without a DPS loss it’s severely overpowered.
Dancer has two buff abilities that take multiple GCD to execute. A dancer literally shuts off all of their damage output for roughly 2-3 GCD while they execute them, and they balanced it by giving it a large potency damage effect at the end based on how well you execute it.