Quote Originally Posted by Coglin View Post
People do get the issue. I can almost see where you are comming from with the "people didn't level archer to be a bard" mentality. What I am not understanding, Is why your upset about it. You made a false assumption. You appear to have hyped your self up on your false assumption. When the actual facts of the situation were released you fell from the high you hyped yourself up to based on your false assumption. thats no ones fault but yours.

When they announced "jobs" they very specifically said :

Jobs
The job system - that series-defining trademark - will be implemented in FINAL FANTASY XIV (details such as specific jobs TBA). Quests to unlock each job will become available once you have reached a certain rank in the corresponding class.
Rather than being advanced versions of classes, we would like players to think of jobs as specialized playing styles optimized for partying. While playing as a particular job will render you unable to equip certain actions of other classes, you will be compensated with access to exclusive actions, which can be acquired through quests.


This was released in may, here on the lodestone. Right after the fact that jobs would be released. If you falsely assumed that this would some how relate to a Hunter/Ranger bow oriented job, you were off base to make that assumption and are wrong to blame anyone besides yourself.
Maybe you should re-read that bold text again, and then look at all of the jobs that have been released. A gladiator is a tank, so is a paladin. A PGL is a DD so is a Monk. A Lancer is a DD and the Dragoon will only enhance their capabilities. A CNJ has the best healing in the game, so will the WHM. A THM does the most damage of the casters, so will the Black mage ETC. But instead we have a class who was first advertised as a DD (even the intro cinematic shows the ARC GETTING buffed with fire and the like, to launch a 3 arrow multi-shot) being turned into something completley opposite of it's original, and to some extent current function.