Quote Originally Posted by LunarEmerald View Post
Well, paeon and ballad are crutches in most situations. A good party only needs foe (T8 excluded). That's the problem with labeling bard as support. Aside from foe, it's only support when somebody screws up. Which means if nobody screws up then no support is needed. Bard is a back up support for when things get sticky. If a healer continually needs ballad then either they're bad or other people are bad. Playing ballad frequently is encouraging/enabling people to continue being bad.
You can say very similar things about Provoke, Flare, Medica II, and many other abilities. There are still times when using them will speed up the fight more than not using them.

Imagine a blm in a dungeon saying "I don't use Flare because it enables the other dps to play poorly."