I'm fully prepared to get flamed for this, and with all seriousness I'm disappointed with FFXIV's Bard.
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I like Bard the way it is. It just needs real animations for the songs (which it's supposed to be getting just like all other casting animations.

The whole story of bard is based around them being archers. They'd have to redo a ton of shit if they changed this. No thanks. BRD in XIV is far more fun to play than it was in XI.