Quote Originally Posted by ForteNightshade View Post
Viable, yes. Good? Not so much. I can't really fault your Bard for leaving. They're taking a 5% penalty the entire fight because you wanted to play Monk, which was objectively worse than Dragoon. Not say you should be forced to stay either but rather this is why the whole damage type debuff system was awful.
This. It sucked SO HARD to be told "sorry, I like this more, and because of that you are just going to hold this fucked up L and do garbage damage because of it."

Everyone celebrated the damage type debuffs being removed because they legit sucked. They were awful in 2.0, and they were awful until the day they died and everyone said they were awful for every part of it.