[QUOTE=Duelle;3335416]This is a rather limited way of thinking. When they told me ARC was going to become BRD, I found it odd until I remembered the bards from D&D and Leliana from Dragon Age.

Bards in D&D are not archers. They have never been archers.

In what edition are D&D bards remotely archers? Im gonna guess if they are, its in some garbage fith+ "edition" that I, thankfully, have never been subjected to.

Certain jobs are more malleable in concept. Unlike BLM or DRG, Bards and Knights can be pretty flexible. We saw knights as hardy melee powerhouses in FF Tactics, and here our Bard is more akin to the bards that predate Final Fantasy rather than a guy with nothing but a lute.


Bards that predate FF in fantasy were song singing performers. Bards that predate RPGs in the real world... were song singing performers.

At no point did archery enter the picture.

Honestly, where are so many of you getting this alien idea that bards in real life or fantasy games have always been archers? Such nonsense.