Bard raid geared melee dps

[Troxx]

Curious about high end bard melee dps from anyone who has Velious raid weapons.

Buffed in an average group - what can you guys average parse?

Weapon caps going up to 250 and offense to 252 and same combat tables as other melee will obviously help a lot in the future.

[Fasttimes]

It's all relative atm cause epic is a bad primary due to speed and losing +11 bonus damage. Epic offhand patch will boost melee dmg even with no double attack (it'll still suck).

Edit for clarity you don't lose the +11 it's just slower so less of them.

Formula = (2 x dmg + 11) / delay which suites fast weapons more (bard doesn't get 2 x , they are (dmg + 11) / delay

[Troxx]

Yeah I was just looking for general estimates. It's been a long time since I parsed Troxx but with 21% worn haste breath of harmony and guardians mace at level 57 it wasn't pretty.

Just curious if a raid geared bard could sustain 40dps melee on non raid targets.

[Fasttimes]

Atm? Ehh prob but be hard with epic offhand I'm sure . But epic mainland sucks for dps. I do ~25 with pd sword and 34% haste which is good ratio (offhand is pure ratio not speed it's independent on swings )

[Troxx]

Damn - so still looking at the raw melee dps of a buffed shaman pet.

[debuilder]

Originally Posted by Troxx [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Just curious if a raid geared bard could sustain 40dps melee on non raid targets.

my 56 ranger pulls more than that on tov dragons im sure a 60 bard with basic gear could do it.

[Cecily]

With no derpble atterk you're looking at 50% of a non-disc warrior at best. On the bright side, with a full group of melee you're adding a ton of damage. +1% dps per 10 atk per person. 4-5 rogues and that really stacks up.

[Troxx]

Oh I'm aware of the global power bards bring to the table - just curious about the raw melee component with legitimately good gear my bard doesn't have [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] . The low weapon skill caps, low offense caps, and melee tables that will soon be fixed will be a swell bump - but we're still stuck with no double attack.

Double attack isn't 100% so surely it's got to be a bit over 50% of a warrior in similar gear once our weapon skill caps etc are raised.

[Fasttimes]

However outside of raiding dotb modded dots + offhand swings should parse pretty well.

Edit: after patch.

[Troxx]

Punching + fully loaded dots with offhand instruments can already stack up to >70 dps [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I guess what I'm looking for is actual parses from one such well geared bard. I'm just curious.