I think its time BRD get some loving

[Galdous]

No. Bards do not need a buff. Balance in this game is done at the high end and for cutting edge progression bards are mandatory. Every high end static group I have ever seen defeat every round of bahamut coils has required use of a bard as part of the setup. Give a bard a dps increase then we go back to the days of stacking bards. No there is no issue right now with using two bards if you want in raids but bards are unique compared to every other dps in the game and should be treated that way. THEY are SUPPORT and will remain that way in the forseeable future. Yoshi-P said there will not be support in this game as a official definition because they go with the holy trinity mode for game play but bard is a support class that fills a dps slot. Its job increases the dps of the other jobs to make do for its lower high end damage then other jobs.

[Snugglebutt]

THEY are SUPPORT and will remain that way in the forseeable future. Yoshi-P said there will not be support in this game as a official definition because they go with the holy trinity mode for game play but bard is a support class that fills a dps slot. Its job increases the dps of the other jobs to make do for its lower high end damage then other jobs.

Wrong and I explained why earlier. They are DPS class with eighteen DPS skills and just three support skills (MP regen, TP regen which Ninjas also can do plus resistance debuff skill) plus one skill that enhances those other three. Swiftsong is an out of combat skill so does not matter. Our main stat is DEX which is a damage increasing stat aka DPS. The limit break is also being changed from healing/resurrection to DPS limit break in the near future since even SE now realizes how silly it was to put such a LB on a DPS class. As I said if your playing it as a support class and not a DPS class your playing it very much wrong, it is a DPS class that on some limited occasions makes use of a very few number of support skills and even then only generally when other people mess up. Feel free to argue about whether you think need a buff or removal of a debuff but don't make the mistake of thinking it is not a DPS class.