FOR DEVS!! Please also change Bard's Limit Break!!

[Lemuria]

I still think it's utterly stupid to class Archer/Bard as a DPS on the one hand and then give them a healer LB with the other. It's paradoxical and nonsensical. If Bard were in some limbo 'support' category I might agree with them having a support LB, but as it stands their whole purpose is damage.

It's not even as though the LB makes sense even from a SUPPORT standpoint. It's not support, it's blatant healing. If it were some kind of party-wide damage buff or a defense debuff on the mob, it might at least make more sense in terms of support for a DPS class. Personally, I'm convinced they just didn't want to give Archers a unique LB. It would make no sense for them to use magic or melee skills, after all... so naturally heals. Even though that makes just as little sense as the rest.

[Kuwagami]

It's not even as though the LB makes sense even from a SUPPORT standpoint. It's not support, it's blatant healing. If it were some kind of party-wide damage buff or a defense debuff on the mob, it might at least make more sense in terms of support for a DPS class. Personally, I'm convinced they just didn't want to give Archers a unique LB. It would make no sense for them to use magic or melee skills, after all... so naturally heals. Even though that makes just as little sense as the rest.

I'll take it that you never played FFT. No wonder then why you can't see a bard healing. Also, Bard's storyline shows a healing song.

[Themis]

I still think it's utterly stupid to class Archer/Bard as a DPS on the one hand and then give them a healer LB with the other. It's paradoxical and nonsensical. If Bard were in some limbo 'support' category I might agree with them having a support LB, but as it stands their whole purpose is damage.

Um... no. Bard's role is to provide support. That's why it gets to sing Songs that enhances the party. The official description of the Job also demonstrates its purpose (straight from the official website: http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/game/#!/jobs - emphasis mine ):

The word "bard" ordinarily puts folk in mind of those itinerant minstrels, fair of voice and nimble of finger, who earn their coin performing in taverns and the halls of great lords. Few know, however, that bards in fact trace their origins back to the bowmen of eld, who sang in the heat of battle to fortify the spirits of their companions.
In time, their impassioned songs came to hold sway over the hearts of men, inspiring their comrades to great feats and granting peace unto those who lay upon the precipice of death.

It can also provide support DPS (regardless of whether it sings or not). With Bard being shown to be the lowest of the DPS (especially without the Dragoon's Disembowel buff), this further puts it into supporting DPS rather than pure DPS. Otherwise, their damage would be more in line with true DPS. Archer, on the other hand, is a DPS class. It offers no real support to the party, and focusses mostly on dealing damage.

It doesn't make sense that Archer has the healer LB, but for Bard it is perfectly sensible. If the animation was to be more reflective of the situation, you would probably see the Bard sing out a last song of encouragement that boosts the morale of the party and gets them back on their feet to charge back at the enemy.