Quote Originally Posted by Yoruichi4478 View Post
When they buffed bard in HW they took a step in the right direction. Too many ppl were dumping on bard on my server. Mch was the preferred job because it was the new shiny in the ranged support and bard was looked upon as weak, but still expected to bring it. And the job felt more of a dps than support tbh, you sang when u had to. Even my caster is salty about the change to Foe Requiem. I was fine being a dps with some support, not the other way around as you put it.
I couldn't disagree more with you. They went the complete and utterly wrong way with the class. The problem was is that they balanced HW completely differently from how ARR was balanced and it made the support that Bards brought nearly useless. With their support being unnecessary, there was no reason to take one of them over any class that could do more DPS than them. Turning them into a DPS that can match everyone else is what killed that class for almost everyone that mained them prior to HW(Like myself). I, like many who loved Bard, ended up going MCH because while they also had the 'gun/bow mage' thing going, their class was at least designed for it from the ground up. Bard got shafted badly with a forced clunky mechanic that ruined everything beloved about the class. And that's why they are thankfully gone back in the other direction.

But again, that wasn't my point. You claimed to be lover of Bard from the launch of ARR and they were 100% a support class from the beginning. If that's now what you wanted then you signed up for the wrong class. We have more than enough DPS-centric classes as it is. Please play another one of them and let Bard be the support it was always supposed to be. We desperately need some differences in roles again.