RNG vs BRD

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All things in good time. They've stated clearly that bards with a dps limit break would negate bringing other dps classes. Perhaps after the nerfs they could have one. I believe that eventually all the classes will have branching jobs, but archer and bard are in a very tough spot to deal with. Bard is traditionally seen as a support class, and I think was played with more support power but less damage in 1.0, putting them in a spot where noone wanted to take them, which is why they're where they are now. If you introduce another job branch from archer, what happens? Do you make bard a healer? Something in between? Keep it as dps and make the new one a tank or healer? If you switch bard from damage to something else you create a conundrum for players that want to play dps. Yes they can switch to the new job, but now all their gear that they've spent currency etc on is healing gear.

Possibly on top of this you would need to introduce more "support" jobs that dip into healing and damage and give them a slot in duty finder etc. Which inevitably means either 5man parties, or 1 tank 1 healer 1 dps 1 support parties. Changing bard to support is what a lot of FF traditionalists want bard, but it could open Pandora's box.