Quote Originally Posted by Astral145 View Post
Unfortunately I do not like any other class in the game. BLM was awesome in 2.0 but I don't like 3.0 blm. I like range classes simple as that. And that whole mp/tp utility is total bs and just an excuse. Ninja and SMN brings just as much utility as a brd and don't try to run around that. Seriously a dps that can do in battle Raise and sub par healing is support but doesn't receive any penalty for raising while in combat o.O? Its a lazy way to not allow brds to be just as vital in dps as other classes. I'm not asking for melee based damage but I would like to see brds to be on the same level as a smn while not being a mp/tp battery. There is no excuse for brds to be a pathetic dps.
NIN can only restore tp to one other party member every 2 min. Bards tp regen blows that out of the water by doing it to everyone in the party. SMN shouldn't be raising in any kind of competitive environment, that is a healer task and if SMN has to rez it is a 7 second cast and consumes a ton of MP It is an enormous drain on dps and resources for the SMN. SMN healing is a joke and should not be done in anything above level 30 or so because it is so pitifully weak (BLM can cross class this too, so its not a support component from my perspective).

BRD and MCH clearly have utility above the other Jobs, as such the lower dps. Devs have recently commented on this after HW release and solidified this outlook on the Jobs as being correct.