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Originally Posted by Caridry
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So lets discuss within relevance, with a bard twisting the {haste, atk, str, ds}, and multiple dot songs, the attack speed is unmatched, and the raw output of all of that combined, other than rogue backstab, is also unmatched, it was all the way up until luclin. A good, smart, bard should not be out damaged by another melee. Now granted that bard has other shit to do, he should not be concerning all of his efforts towards this because that is not the role, but if its needed it can happen.
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The attack speed is matched by any melee wearing a decent haste item buffed with enchanter haste.
The general benefit of the bard buffing songs amplifies the potency of the melee classes that have double attack more than it does the bard itself, just due to the nature of double attack. Thus the "support" moniker. If you're referring to the bard self buffing songs, haste still caps at 100% regardless. As such, as said above wearing a good haste item and getting a haste spell or song buff will put you at or near that cap. Adding +str to self from the song does not compete with double attack either and becomes fairly negligible as gear increases and people cap their str anyway.
That isn't to say that bards can't or shouldn't be doing damage, but they are not top end damage dealers on single targets as parses will show pretty easily.