(06-22-2015, 05:28 PM)Manari Wrote: I sort of understand. Â I loved Bard until I finally decided to get serious in early 2.0 and downloaded a parser. Â I had equal or close gear ilvl and knew exactly how to DPS but I couldn't match or surpass anyone. Â Apparently that is "working as intended" for Bard because they can give mages some MP back slowly. Â (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). Â 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. Â But that was a long time ago, I'm probably never going back to Bard either way. Â I'll wait for Ranger!
I'm a bard convert too. XD. Bard was my first class and my only DPS. But yeah pretty much the same sentiment. Even if I played perfectly I didn't feel any real since of accomplishment because the results were so so. I played a tank instead until Ninja released and then switched. Maybe I'll try bard again now that there are changes. I prefer classes that reward you for playing well even if it means the other side of the coin is they fail miserably when played poorly. The stance dancing adds an extra layer of strategy and hopefully gives enough of a DPS increase to make me fell like I'm not shooting things with nerf gun arrows.
Edit: And yeah, they should be below melee dps but I like the idea of forcing them to stay still and take a risk to get a bit more damage in.
