Support Classes/Jobs (Looking at BRD)

[Charismatic]

So actually, you are concerned about..what?
Bard becoming too important? Or not important enough? Or mobs getting too strong? Or buffs being tied to DD? Huh? And what has food got to do with this?

Also, TL;DR version please.

He's concerned about Bard buffs being so potent that they are deemed needed for nearly every encounter and also concerned that the Bard buffs may not overlap with each other in a way that would make more than one Bard in a party useful. Like... say there's an attack buff from Bards that doesn't stack with itself or something, would you really have any use for two Bards?

[Atoli]

He's concerned about Bard buffs being so potent that they are deemed needed for nearly every encounter and also concerned that the Bard buffs may not overlap with each other in a way that would make more than one Bard in a party useful. Like... say there's an attack buff from Bards that doesn't stack with itself or something, would you really have any use for two Bards?

Thanks for explaining.
Well, I'm not concerned about that. I don't think balancing will lean into a direction where you will need a BRD for EVERYTHING.
But I hope they make this job needed for at least end game content. After all, we have jobs for players to use them, right?
And I guess BRD will still have Archer skills, so if two BRDs are in one party, one can play nice songs and one can shoot mobs to death as a DD.

[Charismatic]

Thanks for explaining.
Well, I'm not concerned about that. I don't think balancing will lean into a direction where you will need a BRD for EVERYTHING.

It's already happened once with a Square-Enix MMO so... I wouldn't be too surprised. And well, while they aren't NEEDED in FFXI, it's kinda like the whole ARC for Darkhold pre-1.19 and the LNC for Ifrit situation we have now. Sure, you don't need to do it that way but it's so much better than the other options we've come up with that most people will consider it a necessity.
We'll see what happens when jobs come out.