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Originally Posted by Caridry
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quite the interesting converstion we have here =), what about the addition of DD's and Dots from the bard? does that not at least bring them close to the standards of double attack?
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It helps some but in the end it really just doesn't compete, mainly because double attack continues to scale in effectiveness at a percentage level with the character's general power, rather than simply adding flat numbers as is the case with DDs and DoTs.
The disparity in damage grows bigger and bigger the better players are geared (I'm assuming both the Bard and other melee are better geared here), because of the percentage based increase in power provided by double attack. With raid level gear and weapons the disparity in damage becomes very significant.
Of course, bards have some tricks making them suited to certain situations, and of course a bard could outparse melee in a fight with plenty of AOE targets for them to hit. I'm only referring to situations with two people both standing next to a single mob target beating on it.