To be honest, I may not be one for unbridled fear, but it's one that's there. BRD is literally on the bleeding edge of taking us over and flat out leaving DNC as the lowest DPS since the rDPS gap isn't that big between those two jobs; not to mention, they're getting their party utility back from Stormblood. My guess is it'll be rather miniscule, but it's still an issue we have to consider.

As with what we've seen how they've handled DPS in the past, they've either overtuned them(i.e. MCH/BRD in late Heavensward) or heavily undertuned them(RDM). Even if people follow the "wait and see" mantra, given the information that was given to us we're probably going to see SAM shift above MNK, NIN shift right next to DRG, MCH right behind, then SMN, then BRD, RDM, DNC in terms of aDPS.

At least, that's what I'm speculating unless they pull a big one on us come patch notes. They still need to adjust their tooltips to NOT MISLEAD the playerbase by saying it'll give you Esprit for Weaponskills, but only at a % chance.