Quote Originally Posted by warren-ragnarok View Post
what bothers me more is the people complaining about the brd nerfs, brd is supposed to be a support role
what bothers me more is ppl who think bard is some OP class when it has less dps than monk, drg and heck even a good blm beats it, so why are we nerfing it again, oh wait cause casuals QQ too much and don't know there class and think bards out dps them. The real problem is that bard really has no support other than silence and we can blame SE for not thinking outside the box and doing something more with ballads, such as making armys restore TP and boost parties determination by say 10%, make mages idk do MP and increase magic resistances of party by 10%. Really that is all you have to do and if they really wanted to adjust y limit cross class skills, just decimal adjust the damage a point of dex does and add those extra suggested buffs to ballads and then you have a supporter class.

Quote Originally Posted by Phai View Post
Where u get it from that Brd is support role? Did not Yoshi once say that he did not want a support role in 2.0? where in the 4 man content u find room for support role?
Brd have songs, while used lowers dps 20%, Beside of that, they have silence... Mnk have silence, drg does not, maybe cut mnk dps 20% lower than drg then?

I would think it would be Clear pointers toward Brd beeing a support role if there was sutch a thing in xiv atm. The penalty for movment and the utility already have that class far Down on dps in endgame!

All i see is Mnk and Drg's talking about "Real" dps, and trash Brd as much as they can.
Tbh if u remove Brd from game, ppl will just stack another ranged dps in most cases, like blm/smn, as things are atm, and u would just be forced to scream nerf for those classes couse the issue toward melee dps still stands.

Nerfing bard might be right for ur kind, but its sure as hell is not the solution to any problems for melee in endgame. and trust me, i want to see more Mnk and Drg pew pew trough coil etc..
As well as this, Yoshi did say they wanted to make bard less of a supporter because in 1.0 we really could do nothing well.