Archer/Bard LB

[RyuDragnier]

So my question is why do archers and I assume bards have the healer LB instead of the DPS one? We are considered a DD class and job right?

Back in 1.0 Bards had access to healing abilities and the 2ndary necessary class to go BRD was Conjurer. They switched it to Pugilist for 2.0 on, but they never fixed it so Archers/Bards would have a different LB. I guess to avoid them becoming all that and a bag of chips.