I am very surprised that NA players describe Bard in FFXI as "princess job", which is spontaneously be the same with JP players
Many JP players are also complaining about the "buff bot" role of RDM and BRD (along with utsusemi and haste) since this two job name poped up from the magazine interview. Hoping Matsui, the lead battle planner, will not repeat the same way as FFXI.
But anyway, PT need healer and buffer, at the end someone have to do this.
So I only hope they can make RDM and BRD more interesting.