Quote Originally Posted by Keichi View Post

The music part is the biggest problem, i have with your idea. I dont like the bard in the first place. He didnt fit together with the archer. The bow is a two handed weapon, who need to be constantly used. And the bow is big.
The music items of the bard are two handed items to and should be used all the time, for creating the music. Its weird, that they connected both into on class.
At last are they making it minimal believable, by having sometimes a weapon, that is a cross bread between harf and bow.
Giving the bard any other Instrument didnt fit realy. Where did they wear them and change the weapon and music items in between (ok, whe have that allready with the fluet by the speed skill and the harf by starting a music skill).
‘Bards’ in the context of Final Fantasy have never actually been Archers or even attackers. They’ve traditionally always been mages equipped with harps that support the party. Unfortunately for FFXIV, the developers made the extremely poor decision to take the traditional jobs ‘Bard’ and ‘Ranger’, and mash them up into the same job. As a result, it’s practically impossible for the job to ever perform satisfyingly as either job. Bard can never be a full archery focused job because that’s not what a Bard is. It can never be a fully musical / instrument wielding magic job, because that’s not what a ffxiv Bard.

It’s really sad, but they’ve essentially designed Bard to be having a permanent identity crisis and refuse to ever go back on their mistake. I wish they’d separate the jobs and make them both their own thing so everyone can be happy (Archers and Bards), but that’s simply impossible (apparently)