Quote Originally Posted by SweetPete View Post
I actually love these ideas. Honestly I never thought of a split. I’d love a split to be honest. Can you imagine a bard healer or caster? Yes please sign me up
And on the other hand: hell no. I love the lore behind Bard, with the archers who saw the horror of war and sang for their fallen comrades using the twang of their bowstrings as the first instruments. It's a fantastic spin on both Archer and the classical Bard we see in other games, and I don't want them to just pitch that in a bin and retcon the shit outta everything. SE may not be executing the Job fantasy as well as the could and need to strike a proper balance between Archer and Bard, but burning everything to the ground and screwing over fans of the current Job is such a terrible idea. Thank God they already said that splitting Jobs like they did with Summoner and Scholar was a bad idea because it means this will never happen. I just hope SE works hard at striking the balance in the future, especially after they kneecapped Bard in Shadowbringers to make way for the fancy new Dancer that stole it's identity.