About roles and balance.

[Mardel]

Despite this, people still try to label bard as the "support" so they can probably try to incorperate it into dps... which brings into another problem of whether or not they're going to end up being required, optional or suboptimal to bring to a raid.

They may as well have made a support job because bards are pretty much required for end game raids. (Especially during progression.)

[RiceisNice]

They may as well have made a support job because bards are pretty much required for end game raids. (Especially during progression.)

Don't see this, at least not on farmfruit. I've gotten shafted out of T6 because they wanted BLM, MNK, SMN and DRG.

When it comes to new classes, I'd rather them avoid the whole "Jack of all trades, master of none". You don't want a role that's capable of doing all, but not really accel at any one (to the point that what they bring to the table isn't respectable, despite the perks they bring). Same in the case of having a SMN for Titan-egi in some fights simply because it makes it so much easier. It creates class exclusion and people will get left out. Making a fourth role would only compound onto this and make it even worse on dps for DF queues.