Quote Originally Posted by Ferth View Post
I can understand that Archer is not Bard is not Archer...

What annoys me though.. is that Bard should be leveled up as a bard... not as an archer who can then toss on an awkward bow and suddenly gets a slew of abilities that change their role completely.

In ffxi if you leveled up Paladin you didn't get Whitemage free.

If they want to allow archer to unlock access to bard... I'm not all that for it, but I'm not vehemently against it either... but atleast require some form of progression as the bard for it to become useful.

The jobs don't need to progress on the same scale as classes... but it shouldn't be that every level 50 archer is also now a level 50 bard if they want to be.
Christ... here we go. Did you know that you rank them side by side? You don't rank Archer then suddenly get Bard at 50. It is explained so far that you do a quest to unlock the profession and more quests for the abilities starting at a lower rank. This is an ongoing option through your progression of Archer. You will have the ability to switch to Bard if the party calls for it, but you're still ranking Archery. Do you get it now? Bard, their version of it anyway, is a more specific subdivision of a bow user.

This is just the start of the job and class system. Who says that there will not be more subdivisions to Archery in the future?