ARC should not be a Bard

[JudgeN]

Any of the new DD jobs outperforms BRD in dealing damage.

There is no reason to purposely invite BRD to a party as a DD, if one has a MNK, DRG, WAR, or another BLM available.

Your BRD will never be invited to a party for your Oh So Amazing "damage dealing". Your BRD will be invited to be an MP/HP bitch.

In view of all above mentioned, for those of us who keep hoping for SE to give us a pure ranged DD job, your silly excitement about BRD being still able "to do some good DPS" can only be perceived as either insult, or a stupidity.

You do realize that archer got nerf and lost its top DD spot 2 patches ago? MRD AND LNC have been out DPS archer awhile now. So what you are actually upset about is that archer got nerfed and isn't the "TOP DD" anymore correct? Well I hate to tell you but range DD is never going to be a top DD again in this game for the obvious reason that its range gives the job an advantage.

So now looking at the this thread myself and other though bard would end up alot like FFXI bard but that isn't the case. Sure we don't do as much damage as the other DD but are damage is still very respectable while providing a added benefit to the entire party. Regardless they did a good job of combining a DD and a support, giving the best of both worlds. If people don't like it then stay archer, I can think of many reason when you might need alittle extra range DPS.