Best DPS class in the game?

[Lyrika]

BRD is more support than damage? or the other way around? Any Legacy Bard's in the house mind giving us some info on this?

[Eein]

Bards can be either support or damage depending on song-usage.
Their role will depend exclusively on your groups needs. Keep in mind you also lose 20% damage when singing, so thats where the movement speed is balanced when you need to become support/utility.

[hideakipn]

Archer/Bard hehe

[bubbleshuffle]

Bard is probably the highest damage right now. Seems like they are making them focus more on DPS then support judging by the changes in P4. I kinda wish they had made Bard focus more on support and had another ranged job branch out of archer that was more DPS focused (ranger or corsair, literally anything). To me it just makes sense that be bard is a support job, since that's what they did in FFXI. I guess this is a totally different game though so i can't expect it to perform the same way it did in another game.

[Vmage]

BRD/BLM have the highest potential DPS

but they're the rng dependent jobs - a lucky streak of procs on either job and they're going to pull way ahead of the best played drg or mnk

on the flip side, a drought of procs is going to put drg and mnk ahead of the best played blm or brd

BLM moreso here, bloodletter resets should be much more steady for bards than the mage praying for a thunderstorm proc (not to mention firestarter)

[VirgoDurai]

Bard does seem like that's where its at, but on DPS enemy resistances also matter, I.E. piercing damage and what not

[Kirana]

Haste had exponential returns in XI, which is what made it so overpowered. With capped haste (80% delay reduction) you attacked 5 times as fast as normal. Skill speed will not provide a bonus that is this significant. Even if it did, TP would run out too quickly for it to matter.

[NoctisUmbra]

ITT: Basically, there is no answer yet. Nobody can say for certain. Considering extensive testing was only really done during Phase 3, and we know much changed in Phase 4, nobody can say for certain yet.

[Nagoto]

I think the class with the highest DPS potential is going to be Summoner, but on the same note I think an average - low skilled player will get their lowest numbers as summoner.

Ontop of doing their own rotation and doing boss mechanics like every other DPS class they have to manage: Their pet's position. Their Pet's abilities, Aetherflow/Energy drain between GCDS.


Just my 2C though =)

[Pooky]

They should just change current Bard into Ranger and later add a more traditional Bard job. Its really a pure DPS right now, with the occasional song. Just let us focus on pure DPS even more without worrying about a song here and there and be a Ranger. And later add Bard as the other job for Archer which focuses on MND, can use Conjurer skills and the songs are all support songs.