WHY ARE YOU PLAYING A BARD IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO SING?!

[abzoluut]

I agree a 100 percent that you should not need to tell a Bard to sing one of the songs needed. A bard should know X song is up in X situation .

On the other hand though, there are oh so many bards just pure DPSing. Isn't it time for us to admit (I'm with this theory* from day 1) that BRD was poorly designed when 9 out of 10 bards just skip songs? It's doesn't really feel like a support job.

* theory

We had those weird jobs in 1.0. Another team took over and they wanted the classic jobs back: pugilist = MNK, conjurer = WHM, marauder = WAR etc. Then I read archer = BRD, wait.. what!? Ranger would be the obvious choice but SE needed some form of support for mana/tp regen and dps buffs. Instead of creating a true BRD, they just merged ranger with BRD because there was no time to actually create a new job. Just like how SMN was added later which is a copy paste from WoW's affliction warlock and just how SCH was added last minute and now has the attributes problem.