Quote Originally Posted by Easayia View Post
This is the issue with your guys mind set Bard is a hybrid of both an archer and a Bard. It sings songs to Buff the party and does damage with the bow. What SE has created in terms of this hybrid is very well designed in the way that it flows. Everyone complaining it should be just the Bard Part and not the archer part are basically asking for a new class entirely. The problem is there is no pure support Role in FF XIV its divided into Tank, DPS, Healer there is no specific role called support. Bard is a DPS and in order to do damage instead of a mage that plays song they opted for an archer hybrid that plays songs.

1. This isnt Bard from FF11

2. This is a hybrid song and Archer job

This is what SE chose to make the job for FFXIV many love it some would rather it be a mage music job instead but its not so you people need to move on from that already......
It took them 8 years to add a real Summoner to this game. I'm willing to wait on getting a real Bard and a real Ranger class for a little while longer. As the job is now I cannot recommend it to anyone with a straight face who wants to be a Bard or an Archer, it's just as thematically confused as Summoner used to be with the focus all over the place and its songs being an afterthought.

That needs to change, something has to give.