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

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The issue is not why BRD has the healing LB, the issue is Healing LB sucks azz.

It should... grant 5 sec immunity(or make the target immobilie for 5 sec), grant full protect buff and Regen on all upon used at Lvl 3.

BRD LB is fine the way it is.

[JemC]

sure, they have time and money at sink to make a LB only for one jobs....

Yet cheezy f2p games can.

[OrganizationXIll]

This one time, the entire party was dead except for me and over time I built up the limit break and used it and it revived the whole party. Wait, I didn't attack the Bard. Sorry.

-_-

Bards limit is fine. Just fine.

[Kat_Manx]

Eh, I used to dislike it but it's kinda cool. Might save a party. Healers usually die before the Bard too. To make a Bard really supportive though, I say give it ALL the Limit Breaks, and let them choose each time. That'd be sweet.

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Eh, I used to dislike it but it's kinda cool. Might save a party. Healers usually die before the Bard too. To make a Bard really supportive though, I say give it ALL the Limit Breaks, and let them choose each time. That'd be sweet.

Great way to get rid of melee and casters. lol

It wont be "Ranged only" it will be "BARD Only"

[LineageRazor]

I don't have any issue with BRD having the healer LB. It's saved my bacon a time or two, since when the tanks go down, the healers are usually soon to follow. By the time the healers can see that a mass rez is going to be needed, they're already being beaten on and will probably be dead before they're able to activate the LB.

That said, I'll admit that I'm disappointed that there are only three different kinds of LB. I'd prefer each job to have their own distinct LB - or, at the very least, if the LB is going to do the same thing, they should have a different animation for it, like MNKs using a flurry of punches, DRG doing a huge thrusting attack, or whatever.

LBs should be a "signature move" for each job, but right now they aren't.

[Waeksyn]

Mmmmmm from that point of view, i could say Monk is a support class too since they can decrease blunt resistance full time

Blunt damage is mnk only so it's not really a party buff. Dragoon's ability buffs bard damage in addition to their own (2 jobs). The bard foe requiem also buffs damage from 2 jobs. Dragoon can keep theirs up full time, bard cannot.

[Wolf_Gang]

I'll give BRDs a limit if it's accompanied by a hard nerf to their DPS.

So much that it makes them the lowest DPS in the game.

[Kuwagami]

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

Hmm what ? The only reason the bard is a dps in FFXIV is the fact that we don't have a support role in the game. I'm curious to know any FF game where the bard wasn't a support besides XIV

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Off-topic: I couldn't possibly be the only person who was expecting the OP to actually list a 1,000 reasons. It would have been an interesting read.

On-topic: I personally like the utility the healing LB give BRD. I know many don't agree with SE's view on this, or mine for that matter. I suppose it stems from that fact that I don't see BRD as only a DPS class even if it's classified as one in a trinity setup (Tank, Healer, DPS). I can see BRD being moved to the fable "hybrid" class as the game matures and expansions come out. Perhaps Ranger will be added off the Archer class as a DPS class? I also veiw LB's a little different as well, I see tham as a group action an not an individual's action. :X