Quote Originally Posted by Sapphic View Post
AKA no-one would play it. How are you going to level?
Well this is simply untrue. The number of people screaming at the Bards who want to be pure dps proves that this is untrue. Many, many people want Bard to be 100% support. And they'd level just the same way healers do: minimal dps to get you through solo stuff. I, for one, wouldn't play a single support class because that's just not what I enjoy. But the Bard community(this is the only thing I can speak on because it's my main job) is split pretty bad about whether we're support or DPS. Sometimes it seems like it's half and half, sometimes it seems like there are more calling to be pure support. So assuming that no one wants to play a support job is wrong; you can go look at all of our complaint threads and you can see the number of people telling us we're meant to be support only. But OP has valid points; everything is so raid focused that the rest of the game becomes tedious and annoying.