Quote Originally Posted by Akesis View Post
Confirmed, Bards are a DD role... There is no such thing as a support role in this game.
This is incorrect. Yes they confirmed that they are sticking to the three role system of Tank, Healer, and DPS. However within that system Bard is still a Support-DPS class by virtue of the fact that it has support abilities as it's primary job-abilities post level 30, and because it uses the Healer Limit Break instead of the DPS Limit Break.

These facts alone makes it so Bard is not a true DPS Oriented Class and shouldn't be considered as such by most people. It is strictly speaking a Support-DPS class. Also take into consideration that the Bard has the single highest Mobility out of all the DPS classes in the game, and then you have another reason why it's DPS ratio is not going to be as high as some of the other DPS Classes.

Also, something tells me that Rogue/Ninja is going to have a similar DPS output to Bard when it is finally released due to it being more oriented towards Stealth and Speed than it is towards out and out DPS.