Best designed DPS and Worst designed.

[Jirah]

To me, Bard is the worst designed. While MCH is arguably more boring it at least has some Big Buttons and the very active heat window (yes, it's just mashing the same buttons but at least it's something). Bard just has nothing that actually feels good or rewarding. There's more to do than on MCH but none of it makes you go "Wow" or "Ooh that was fun." There isn't anything that makes you feel like you really contributed to the party. It also doesn't really feel like it fits it's identity and role at all. Not speaking number balance, but the DPS isn't enough of a focus for a DPS job. The support element that feels like it should be the focus for a Bard can't really be the focus because of the design of the game.

I’m noticing a disturbing pattern just now, back in SB I used to see a few “MCH sucks” threads and how it isn’t easy or straight forward but the major issue it had was a abysmal progression kit, and most of the debates were laughably bad due to people not even leveling it to 70 or understating the job

Years later, MCH got the lethal injection and BRD a job once praised for its kit is now suffering the same unjust treatment from people that either just repeating the echo, or so used to MCH and DNC lax nature that using a dot is seen as alienating, I get BRD isn’t as good as SB but I almost never see anyone bring it up it’s always comparisons to DNC and MCH which (idk if I’m the only the feels this way but) are NOT very good jobs to compare BRD too or any job really.

One being boring and kinda deleting the whole point of the game and the other so brand new it doesn’t have a camp of critiques yet (coming soon in EW)

Perhaps I’m paranoid since this patterns ends with a lobotomy as so many jobs have suffered so far in SHB