Quote Originally Posted by Ravenmore View Post
The no brd rotations would kill off 2 song brd totally. Right now you can get away with one 2 song brd in a alliance or even two of them if you have a good LS but take away the rotations the demand for the 4 song brds will increase. The rest of your post solves nothing as well or would make things worse for other jobs again not fixing the core issue.
This is kind of the overall problem that we're talking about. Bard rotations, while a "creative" way to maximize effectiveness, is sort of akin to gear switching, which is something the dev team has been trying to shy away from. Plus, I think we a lot of folks can agree that it would be awesome to not feel like they "needed" to do those rotations. But what if having more than 2 songs was one day considered to be more of a perk rather than a need?

The only reason why people are so dependent on 3+ song bards is because not much else quite matches up at the moment, because things aren't really well-balanced for endgame. I mean there are plenty of other jobs that could potentially fill the support role (blu, rdm, cor, geo, pup, smn, sch, etc...) Perhaps if Debuffs were a little more on par with Buffs, and Regen effects were a little more on par with cures, then we might be able to see a little bit less of a monopoly on the support role by White mages and bards.