Give us Ranger

[Kewitt]

Add 2-3 support roles, Retweak all current content to 5 man..

[Duelle]

Add 2-3 support roles, Retweak all current content to 5 man..

Groups would take 10 times longer to get together because support is an unpopular role that you effectively have to sucker people into playing (XI's RDM and COR come to mind). Some of you have really learned nothing from the past, it seems. 0.o

[Sylve]

Groups would take 10 times longer to get together because support is an unpopular role that you effectively have to sucker people into playing (XI's RDM and COR come to mind). Some of you have really learned nothing from the past, it seems. 0.o

RIFT is actually a fairly prime example of a Support Role poorly implemented. Waiting for the Dungeon Finder to find that Support guy was atrocious, and getting a team of 5 before that tool was made was even worse.

I don't get why Bards aren't happy with how the Job functions. As a Monk, Scholar and Warrior, i LOVE having a skilled Bard in my party.

Every Job has a Role, something it's good at. Monk has exceptional continuous single target DPS. Black Mages have exceptional periods of burst damage. Dragoons are a good mix between the Black Mages burst and the Monks continuous DPS. Summoners are great at dealing a lot of constant damage to multiple targets at once.
The strength of the Bard is its ability to greatly improve the performance of everyone in your party, through resource regeneration or bonus damage with Requiem.

If you want to just do massive damage ranged hits, roll a Black Mage, don't try to force a Job to change to suit your desires. Leave the poor Bards alone to do what they're good at -_-

[meJojo]

I'm baffled that some people think Bard will no longer classify as a DPS class if they exchange their personal damage for party wide DPS boost songs.

[LoLo]

Nerf Bard's damage output, buff their support abilities and give them 1-2 more songs.

Release Ranger, pure DPS class with a DPS limit break, no "support" abilities whatsoever.

Thanks.

Bard is an advanced job, will keep its DPS just like it is. Did they even say they are going to give us Ranger?

[MomoOG]

They should turn Bards into healers =P

[Nadrojj]

Lifelong Ranger in ffxi, happy with how bard in 2.0 has turned out, but I'd love a pure ranged dps class via bow/gun. I'm thinking we'll see musketeer instead of ranger, and I'm ok with that as long as it's a pure DPS class and not like Corsair was in 11.

[Meshico]

Musketeer is a "class" a job from Musketeer is could potentially be Ranger...Now i'll start looking it up since i can't remember too well...but i could have sworn with the potential introduction of puppet master as an alternate job from Musketeer...but i'll look up anything i can now and edit it in when i find it.

[Warlyx]

Musketeer is a "class" a job from Musketeer is could potentially be Ranger...Now i'll start looking it up since i can't remember too well...but i could have sworn with the potential introduction of puppet master as an alternate job from Musketeer...but i'll look up anything i can now and edit it in when i find it.

I dont want ranger using guns (Musketeer) better ranger branch from Archer (BOW)

Muskeeter can go DPS ( dual guns! pew pew) and Buffs (corsair/gambler)

[Itachi]

so essentially because your dps numbers are slightly less now you want the whole class changed because your ego is hurt?

LOL