Quote Originally Posted by MikkoAkure View Post
The problem I see from the suggestions that we take the Bard out of the Archer and make an Archer-specific class is that you're just making 2 uninteresting classes.
I disagree that is an actual issue, since it can apply to literally any class really.
‘What does Warrior do over Marauder do but axe more angrily’
‘What else can White Mages do except conjure harder’
‘What else can Thaumaturge do but cast harder’ (that’s literally the only distinction between Thaumaturge and Black Mage from a gameplay perspective there are no other additions)
Etc lol.

A ‘Hunter/Archer’ style job would have plenty of options to draw from in and out of ff lore. Animal companions like FFV, a more d&d style ‘nature warden’ style, traps and snares which again is a more ‘archetypal’ Hunter thing.

I think it’s pretty unfair to just throw away Bard as a ‘uninteresting class’. To you and Yoshi-P, sure. But there are clearly of people who enjoy support oriented classes, and the whole ‘musical Mage’ style it has is more than enough to base an identity around. I mean, it worked in FFXI and nobody complained there that all it did was sing lol. By this logic no job should ever exist unless it’s a hybrid of two pre-existing ones.

I’m not saying this as if it’s a thing that will ever actually happen though. Fact is it’s flat out too much work for them to handle separating the two into different classes, so we’re stuck with what we have whether we like it or not lol