Quote Originally Posted by Endemerrin View Post
To be able to quickly swap between playing the harp and attacking with the bow? Otherwise he'd have to put his bow away, pull out the harp, play the music, put the harp away, and pull out the bow.

Or he could just snap the harp down, play it, and snap it back up.

I think it's safe to assume Archer will be Bard. After all, there was a Dev post stating that Bard was in fact a confirmed job. I don't really see any other class that could host Bard as a job.
Bard should have been a class which used instruments. lol.