A challenge. Make Bard more Bard.

[Majidah]

In my opinion, it's not the having arrows or not that prevent the current BRD from being a "true" bard. It's the lack of songs and bard related abilities that have this effect. As it is now, which is still a great job, it's more of an archer that is apparently in training to be an actual bard. Primarily, the job is not based on it's BRD abilities but on the Archer qualities. That is to say, they need to pump up the songs and things related to them. I'm not sweating animations and such, but those would be nice too.

That said, we're still very early on in this game. With the addition of more level caps and such, in ARR things could be completely different than they seem.

I think once they add lullaby the complains will subside.

While brd COULD use an atk up song their role in battle would not change.

Lullaby and debuffing are the only two things I can think of that would "change" a bard's role in the party, *somewhat*.

I think SE was smart in making songs last so long, and making the relic make them last even further. Refreshing the songs is the least appealing aspect of bard.