I think its time BRD get some loving

[Mugiawara]

There are no support jobs in this game and Yoshi P has confirmed they're not going to be added any time soon. Thanks for playing.

Yoshi said a lot of things but bards are in fact, a DPS/Support class. Healers are also a support class, we just call them healers lol.
People need to play Bard and learn what it entails. Sorry, it's NOT a FULL DPS class. A lot of these posts make me think a buttload of bards here don't even bother singing
because they're too worried about tons of damage and upset with reductions that help the rest of the party. It's a hybrid, so you're going to get halfies here.

Maybe you should learn more about your SMN and clear coil first, your own job have a fair share of issues.

This is not my main account and I already know the dooms and glooms of SMN and how God awful they are right now. I already have played with Bards in coil as a healer
and they seem okay to me.
With what you said then, SMN needs to be priority then, since Bard isn't as nearly as bad as SMN because they are in a tight spot atm.
[Again don't bother looking into this characters Loadstone or whatever. >>;]