Bard does not make sense as a job

[Kuwagami]

There's not much you can do to the DRG without messing up the concept.

Still waiting on breath techniques though But there is hope that they could come in 4.0, being taught by some ancient dragon because we made peace in 3.5 or something and now they can teach us how to become FF dragoons, instead of dancing between goons and templars.

How many people excited about summoners do you think were expecting to summon multiple different massive monsters to do huge and heavy attacks, but got pets that are a very minor portion of their damage while they just make people sick for the bulk of it?

FFxiv's SMN is an invoker, not an evoker. While less spectacular on useless flashy fluff, they still fulfill the role they're supposed to have. No matter what players expected (though it took an entire expansion cycle for them to get to that. 2.X's SMN wasn't THAT clear on the invoker stuff)


As for the bard, well, now it's an archer. Maybe one day they'll have more songs than archery stuff, but that's unlikely. Nothing we can really do about it.

edit : well, maybe it would already make a bit more sense (visually speaking at least) if all lv30+ bows had a little harp mounted on them like the 2.0 relic had.