Quote Originally Posted by Bawnawgwa View Post
It takes away any strategy to fights. You should never really NEED support. Look at ffxi. Bards are not needed for anything. Yet EVERYONE wants bards for EVERYTHING because they can just help sooooo much. You don't need to tailor content that much to fit support. It gets boring when jobs will ONLY be dps, healer, or tank. Lets add some variety please and give people something new and more unique to do.

Also, sage..... just sayin :P
BRDs were required for pretty much everything at the time I quit (last September). There's no way you could defeat the delve bosses before stun immunity w/o at least 1 BRD. COR was pretty much mandatory as well.

Speaking of BRDs... BRDs are pretty much mandatory in T8 for paeon, unless you go with all casters. They are kind of a hybrid class in that respect. Instead of introducing a whole new role, it might be more prudent to give existing DPS classes support roles similar to bard songs.