Should Archer new Job be healing though Singing?

[Lillia]

Shooting someone to heal them is a weird idea. It sound like someone was drunk when they was thinking up a healer.

It's from a single-player console game, that had dark and light elements in it. Basically think of zelda's light arrows except to aid allies, not hurt enemies then they won't seem any more drunk than Shigeru Miyamoto was. :P

besides if the new gunner is indeed a healer, don't you think they'd be shooting stuff at you to heal you? I'm pretty sure that speed would hurt the average player regardless of whats being shot. :P

(Also it was a joke, you know... that's why I said My future job) xD

[PureEclipse]

I would just settle for bards who actually use their songs.

Well, write to SE and ask them to redo bards the proper way please as is, our songs do more bad than good...

since 2 of 3 of them take damage away from us, 1 of them is ok but since we never see what the numbers are for the blm if there even is a blm in the group... /shrug on that

run song is a joke and turns off, when switching zones, combat, and anything that would make the run song seem appropriately needed.

I wont lie, but FF14 has one of the worse incarnations of bard I have ever seen, and its the go to job/class whatever I prefer in any mmo that offers it.

[EricCartmenez]

In the opening movie of the game, the bard lays down a protective shield which takes a single hit. I always wondered, "where is that?" I wonder if that's something they meant to incorporate and didn't or will incorporate.

[Lillia]

Well, write to SE and ask them to redo bards the proper way please as is, our songs do more bad than good...

since 2 of 3 of them take damage away from us, 1 of them is ok but since we never see what the numbers are for the blm if there even is a blm in the group... /shrug on that

run song is a joke and turns off, when switching zones, combat, and anything that would make the run song seem appropriately needed.

I wont lie, but FF14 has one of the worse incarnations of bard I have ever seen, and its the go to job/class whatever I prefer in any mmo that offers it.

I like bard, just my opinion. I know some players don't mind the thought of sitting there running songs over and over till their mp is dry but I like being utility and that's the key word to this version of bard, Utility DPS.

I don't really like the idea of sitting there and singing with nothing else to do till my song is needed again and honestly I'd think infinite running song so mp/tp is never dry is too op for most contents we got right now so we'd always be limited to either 1 song at a time on timer for like 15-30s or MP running dry and no song mojo business while we got nothing else to do.

What I want is the ability to see TP of melee DPS so I can tell when to sing TP songs for DPS.

In the end though, I respect the opinion of the community that actually use the forums and SE's decisions.

[Tupsi]

In the opening movie of the game, the bard lays down a protective shield which takes a single hit. I always wondered, "where is that?" I wonder if that's something they meant to incorporate and didn't or will incorporate.

That was 1.x when Bards could cross class CNJ spells.

[Korbash]

They should add ranger job for those who want to be full archer DPS and not some support class.

[Bigcat9715]

It's from a single-player console game, that had dark and light elements in it. Basically think of zelda's light arrows except to aid allies, not hurt enemies then they won't seem any more drunk than Shigeru Miyamoto was. :P

besides if the new gunner is indeed a healer, don't you think they'd be shooting stuff at you to heal you? I'm pretty sure that speed would hurt the average player regardless of whats being shot. :P

(Also it was a joke, you know... that's why I said My future job) xD

I known it was a joke, but there have been games where you used bullets to heal people (Borderlands).

[thepalehunter]

Archer and Bard should never have been mixed to begin with. Bard is really a Ranger with one or two afterthought 'songs' thrown on.

[abzoluut]

As people have mentioned already: so many want an actual Bard: HoTs, songs to buff party/debuff mobs. There's also a ton of people out there who just want a real Bow dps: Ranger (hunter, maybe even sniper). I guess we will have to hang on and wait if SE will adjust the job system so they can start thinking about support roles. It doesn't seem like that will happen soon as 3.0 was mentioned to be yet another moment for new-to-MMO-players to join.

I still have hope..

I just keep repeating this so people will not forget. When the 2nd team came in, they promised us the classical FF job names. However, 1.0's horrible remnant were kept in the game: Pugilust to Monk, Marauder to Warrior, Conjurer to White Mage, Gladiator to Paladin and so on. I was so exited and in my mind I already knew: Archer (you know, someone who hurts stuff with his (cross)bow) to Rang.. wait.. BARD!? I honestly thought it was a mistake or the translation was wrong. Unfortunately it wasn't and we got a crappy lore about how Bards also use bows and such. They managed to screw over RNG and BRD, two jobs which are so interesting to implement.

[Lillia]

I known it was a joke, but there have been games where you used bullets to heal people (Borderlands).

hehe, i never played borderlands before that's why it didn't come to mind but I hear from my BF that it's good. he likes it a lot.

Btw your siggy. <3