with that i agree, the question however is what square intends in that regard as a whole. right now their balancing inside the roles seems to be "no support->weak support->strong support", which i would say is not necessary but kinda the easy way out solution. you have that the clearest with the physical ranged, but it also exists with the casters and the melees (well, if you want to call dps buffs support at least), i.e you have 1 selfish class, 1 (2 in the case of melee) middle ground class and 1 support heavier one. at any rate, we'll have to see how they move forward with that, personally i don't see any real necessity or even good reason for that but in the end we'll have to wait and see how square will move along with both its role aswell as class balance as a whole.[/QUOTE]

Well we already saw how SE threw lore away like a penny on the street. Look at what they did to Astro’s card system. I love bard and I truly hope in patch 6.0 they give us a healthy amount of support to compete with dancer because right now dancer is killing bard in the support department while machinist completely out dps bard in every way. Some say bard will remain in the middle but I don’t wanna believe that. I’m sure SE has listened to our feedback and I truly hope that bard will shine in 6.0.