Setting sights on the future of physical ranged DPS

[AnimaAnimus]

The actual Bard is a watered down (and by a lot) version of FFXI Bard.
On FFXI you are also starting as an Archer, but when you unlock Bard.... You forget that once upon a time you were a DPS.

What? You didn't start as an archer in ffxi, archer wasn't even a class in ffxi. Ranger was, but that you unlocked at 30 on any class, just like brd. Did you even play xi? Cause the 2 were not connected in any way. And ffxiv brd is not a watered down version of bard from ffxi, they are 2 completely different things outside of name.

[Lorika]

What? You didn't start as an archer in ffxi, archer wasn't even a class in ffxi. Ranger was, but that you unlocked at 30 on any class, just like brd. Did you even play xi? Cause the 2 were not connected in any way. And ffxiv brd is not a watered down version of bard from ffxi, they are 2 completely different things outside of name.

Oo
Maybe i remember wrongly, but i do remember having a bow (and a dagger).... And yeah i played it until 2009 (when i switched for Aion and i still have the cd box if you want).
But i'm 100% sure i was using a bow with Brd (well, using is a big word, i never heard a lot the Battle Musics when i was playing BRD XD)

And it's a Watered down, FFXI Brd was buffing more things (HP/LO regen, physical/magic defense, Elemental resistance) with it's song (i had several macro for using song).
The big difference was alway the fact that FFXIV bard is a DPS then a buffer.... the contrary of FFXI, but the base are quite similar.

BTW, my first job on FFXI was monk, then BRD and RDM.