Bard

[NoctisUmbra]

well reading a few more post they need to do 2 things to bardcher, one is to make the buff songs last longer 7minutes minimum so you can focus on dmg too, second is to give a boost in the damage to archer, right now it does a lot of damage but you have to spend gil to buy arrows, other jobs only need to repair and they're rdy to go, so in my oppinion is not fair that you have to spend gil or level up carpenter to keep up with others melees, at the beginning the dmg archer did was a lot higher than other melees and it was fair because every time you had to go out and fight something you had to spend gil to be ready.

So i hope they check that and give archers or bardchers a good reason to go out and play that role.

You pay gil to be a ranged DD. Ranged DD is a safe DD. At the moment PGL has the highest damage ceiling and rightfully so because it has the highest risk by having to be right on the mob's ass to get hits in. ARC has almost the lowest damage ceiling if looked at on raw spamming DPS, being only better than a GLA.

So the extra cost you pay for with ARC does not qualify you to have the highest DPS. Not by a long-shot.

EDIT: Your Ifrit scenario, whilst being only one specific scenario anyway, still doesn't qualify as an excuse. Any other melee also has cracks to worry about. Sure in that fight, by design, you aren't so much more safe than other melees. Can you say the same thing about any other fight in the game?