Job change suggestions for BRD in 6.0

[Akiudo]

I think fans of bard know what the job could be and SE is to scared to do it. They said they don’t want 2 main support jobs but they themselves have backed themselves into a corner because bard was the first true support then dancer arrived and just took all of it. It’s not fair to bards. Bards support is nowhere near dancers at all and dps is nowhere near machinist. The job doesn’t flow well and to me is all over the place. I feel the job is 90% archer/ranger and 10% support, when dancer is a healthy 50/50. All I’m saying is bard could be on the same level but SE seems scared to do that because they don’t want another bard/dragoon situation where bard/dancer are mandatory for high end raids. That’s very sad and honestly not a good excuse for what they did to bard. They stripped bard of all its support when 5.0 came out. Player backlash made them give back support but they gave crappy support back. No where near dancers level of support. Give bard is healthy 50/50 or heck even a healthy 60/40 and I’ll be happy with that.

sorry but dancer is not mandatory for "high end" raiding in a way most people think of actual high end raiders, i.e. the "we go for world first" way. its mandatory for speedruns and even than only because speedrunners literally don't give a flying **** for the 20 runs were dancer performs worse than mch as long as at the end they get their one run where dancer suddenly has every procc in existance on his side. for one its a sad joke at best to try to balance around that kind of play, especially as square does not support it in the slightest, given their stance on the very tools players use to upload and parse these fights. Also, given the current level of dps even if bard was dancer 2.0 you would not want both of them. even in these very specific (i.e speedrun) settings, at the end of the day dancer is still only the best physical ranged for speedkills, the role as a whole is still bad enough you would hardly want two of those.

the extreme synergy between Bard/Dragoon was flat out broken, especially do to crit scaling