What is a Bard?

[Daeana]

I will point out an obvious one since I recently switched to SMN main. Battle res lowers SMN DPS. In an extended fight you may be forced to use more energy drains instead of fester if you need to res. And if you don't have swiftcast up for it that is another major DPS loss.

I feel that SMN could be redefined into a support category in the future. With the possibility of having more summon pets that use Avatar favor as buffs for there party.

Do you plan on adding buffer or debuffer roles?

At the moment we plan on continuing with the three current roles: tank, DPS, and healer. If we added more roles to these three, it would become more complicated to decide which job fits into which role, and I believe new players will be joining the game in 3.0 so we don't want to make it difficult for them to understand. For the time being we would like to keep the number of roles as it is as we move forward.