1,000 reasons why Archer/Bard needs a non healer limit

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I'm tired of hearing bards wanting to be more aggressive, you're maybe the most overpowered class in the entire game, you're needed in almost every endgame content and do really high dps for a SUPPORT CLASS

Bard is a DPS job with utility built in. Stop spreading misinformation based on bad role distribution.

BRD was fine back when the game launched. The ranged-only thing came from a) bad habits from FFXI, b) the fact that encounters tended to punish melee WAY more than ranged, and c) because dungeons and endgame were not structured in a way that encourages balanced raid comps. As far as being "needed", once interrupts (AKA BRD's real selling point) get spread out better you might see a shift.

The main issue still remains that physical ranged should have their own limit break. Even if you think it's not needed now, it will definitely be needed when ARC's second job gets implemented as well as when musketeer enters the game.

Reason why i use Unlimited Blade Works as a joke / suggestion. Yea feel like in the new expansion, they will probably got Musketeer and Scout i think so they could slap a new kind of limit break where it is a long steady damage instead of burst damage and give it to BRD, Musketeer and Scout.

Potential usages are in bosses fights where you just need a steady damage while the whole party is running around dodging stuffs, hell, if fight last long enough, you could let BRD LB at the start of the fight, and gather up enough LB for second use near the end for tank / dps / healers.

That's kind of what I'm thinking, too. Cast LB, LB would take effect over X seconds.

I originally wanted to suggest that ranged LB would be something like the shot the first boss of Pharos Sirius uses, but a frontal line attack would be less useful than the caster DPS LB and would still have to be weak compared to the melee DPS LB.