Post ascension Bishop build

Don't you find it silly you picked a support class and expect people to find you dependable as a DPS'er?

No. Actually, once a bishop gets some %int gear they become rather good at attacking. I myself am proof. When i trained with my guildmates and alliance at LHC bears a few months ago when we were all leveling like crazy after the release, they let me take the upper most bear platform (usually has 2-3 bears on it) for myself. I could kill bears fast enough to keep the spawn rate going at other platforms. The only time i came down, was to rebuff people. They separated into 2 groups, lower and mid. I got top. Now, could i outdamage a mech or sair or dk? no, but i was able to hold my own so well, they just let me do my own thing on another part of the map.

Bishop after big bang is fairly strong. I was even able to outdamage a good friend of mine, who is a I/L mage, and he had slightly beter %int on him and was a few levels higher. He's waay ahead of me now, since i stopped training waiting for jump patch. Sure our AR is slow, but for non-mule bishops that care about doing damage, we can easily surpass 150-200k per hit with AR. The strongest bishop on my server zenith was doing 500k+ dmg with AR when she was in her 180's (200 now). I really dont think you can say we are a support class when we can do that.