It seems what most of you are discribing is a minstrel. Bards, by definition are not neccissarily musicians. They are lore masters, story tellers, singers, writers, poets, beggers who intertain, artisans, and intertainers. To assume a weapon is involved says you define them by some previous games lore that you have played, lore more then actual understanding of the word. This is a FFXIV, not a westen MMO, and as we can see so far, there definition of alot of these clases in this game have great varience to the typical wesern concepts.