Bard's DPS isn't quite a terrible as most people believe in ideal, yet certainly attainable, circumstances. The trouble is the mob has to be unmoving, not resistant to several saves, and then the most likely reason; people in a group would let that happen since the other stuff like regen resists etc would be instantly missed.
I'm not saying it'd be anything to write home about, but they can beat out knights at the least in those circumstances. The gap gets much wider in Velious, though. Instrument modifiers don't increase very much for the same DPS songs that don't get upgraded relatively compared to the increases melee DPS gets in that expansion is just huge. I didn't agree with what that Thott dude said about a lot of stuff, but the article he wrote about this was actually pretty factual and legitimate.
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