Quote Originally Posted by Lecreuset View Post
Right now you can finish everything without a bard but it's still easier to have one. Some people like a challenge though
This is how it is meant to be, you can complete any of the 8 man content with any combination as long as you have the standard 2 tank, 2 healer, 4 dps setup. Of course you can deviate from that to suite your group's makeup, but they always wanted to be able to use any class/job for any content, and not favor job stacking, so right now people prefer paladins, so they are giving warriors more tools, bards and casters are highly sought after for Coil groups, so they are increasing the usefulness of dragoon and monk.This will continue through the life of the game, it happens with all MMO's, new content is released, they try to balance classes with it, then end up tweaking after to try get it right, once they feel they are at a stable point, it's time for new content and the cycle starts again. You can see this in other games, most classes in WoW now are completely different than they were at release, in XI ninja was meant to be a debuff/dps class, but the players saw it and invented the evasion tank, and SE rolled with it, adding a dynamic to the job they didn't even imagine when they designed it.