I sort of understand. I loved Bard until I finally decided to get serious in early 2.0 and downloaded a parser. I had equal or close gear ilvl and knew exactly how to DPS but I couldn't match or surpass anyone. Apparently that is "working as intended" for Bard because they can give mages some MP back slowly. (Which lowers their DPS even MORE) When I learned that, switched to Monk instead until NIN came out (which I wanted since 1.0 anyway). I never felt that being able to give mages some slightly faster MP regeneration would ever make up for the lower DPS bard has, especially when MP is almost meaningless to BLM and even SCH and SMN for the most part. But that was a long time ago, I'm probably never going back to Bard either way. I'll wait for Ranger!
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