Quote Originally Posted by Eckoh View Post
We do have the numbers there are a few parsers out there and people are using them. I killed Garuda Hard mode last night and parsed to to see the numbers. So people have them.
oh no, i know that. i have a parser myself. But in this thread im seeing "in my free company bards do top dps" "in mine so and so is better" but never "our bard beats the other dps by 20%. he does xxx on xxxxx boss" where someone else can come in and say "our dragoon does xxx and outdpses your bard on that same fight".

while it does seem a common trend that bards are top DPS when not using their songs, i dont want this to fall to the usual MMO "i beat all my friends so i must be the best" when all it really means is that the direct compatition is doing poorly

for instance, i regularly do 70-80 dps no limit break on bosses (level 38ish) while most summoners i see are in the 28 range, most bards in the 35-40 range, most tanks in the 30-50 range and so on. I dont think that means dragoons are the best, i think ive been usually with pugs who dont take their dps quite as seriously. so far almost no duty finder DPS ive grouped with regularly outdpses tanks on boss fights.