To the devs: Why won't you nerf Geomancer?

[Jin_Uzuki]

You need to buff 1 job, Bard. Who should get a buff because it's not properly updated to deal with modern FFXI endgame anyway.

[OmnysValefor]

You need to buff 1 job, Bard. Who should get a buff because it's not properly updated to deal with modern FFXI endgame anyway.

This is the answer in its entirety.

When bard came out, it was the only spell haste besides the white magic spell.

It offered the only accuracy boost buff other than what jobs brought (edit:and food)

The attack boost that Minuets offered, while always static, was larger in relation to 75-era attack values than it is today. A google image search was the best I could come up with. I did search for "ws sets" because that gave me more equipment panel results than "equipment screen" or anything like it.

Very well geared DD sporting WS sets that weren't half of what my PLD tanks in (str and attack numbers, specifically)

In an era when haste on a piece of gear was "neat", bard's haste songs (closest thing cor has/had is delay reduction, which is not as good before magic-haste cap) were amazing.

You can say Bard was never game breaking but it absolutely was. Madrigals, Marches, Ballads, and more, were the reason people did everything from win top-end fights to get 30k exp (!) an hour. The truth is, nerfing GEO "to the ground" isn't going to fix Bard's problems. There was a reason that alliances had 3 bards, and it wasn't so each party got one.

The job needs a mechanic overhaul, a little bit of love towards dispel interaction with songs, and some interesting songs baseline to the job. The songs are only bland by today's standards.