Quote Originally Posted by Yonnji View Post
At this piont it is still no more then your personal, yet unproven conjecture, Mr. the latest news. Either way, it is irrelevant.

I can play the game the way I want. Or I can take my toys and go elsewhere. But I can never play the game the way you want me to play. Not gonna happen.

I'm sure there will be plenty of people willing to play your MP/TP bitch. I'm also sure there will be a few who'd rather quit, if a true ranged DD job/class is not forthcoming.
Like I said, leaving is your prerogative. Your overall argumentative tone and appearance of threatening to leave is superfluous.

Enough is known about how Jobs will work to know that ARC simply loses it's ability to cross class skills when switched over to BRD. ARC has all the tools it needs natively to do it's DPS. ARC DPS on max output, rotating cooldowns, comes primarily from combos and roughly 30% of it from Light Shots and Barrage. Neither of this is lost with BRD.

What do you lose?

  • Invigorate? You gain a better skill in the form of a song that increases not only your TP gain, but also the entire party's.
  • Blood for Blood? Tested to give a static increase to damage done independent of the skill it is used on. Also only effects first hit in multistage skills. Not an essential buff by a longshot. Negligible difference. This can be confirmed on Carraway's Guide to Archer.
  • Second Wind/Cure? Party environment with a WHM who is much more adept at healing than CNJ is at the moment. Coupled with ARC's native damage mitigation skills and overall safety it's not a huge loss. Certainly not one to be brought up on the comparison of being a ranged DD.


You seem to be under the impression that on BRD you will simply be standing still repeatedly using song spells to buff the party. The idea behind FFXIV's BRD is clearly that of support DPS as well as party buffs.

I don't mean to tell you how to play, I'm only pointing out facts. Using the information that has been revealed to us to compare BRD to straight ARC. It is acceptable for you to want a ranged pure DD class, and the disappointment that comes with not getting that is also understandable of course. However, as I said before, attempting to persevere despite the state of the game and their Jobs come 1.21 and join Full Parties consisting of players on Jobs on your Archer will undoubtedly only lead to further disappointment on your end. Based on hard, cold facts there is no clear advantage to playing ARC instead of a BRD in a Full Party environment come 1.21. At best you may get one or two fights/instances where the community demands ARC due to it's safety. I still highly doubt that due the the gap between other DDs and ARC no doubt getting quite wider with Jobs.