original: ジョブシステムで実装予定しているジョブは、決定しているものが、ナイト、モンク、白魔導士、黒魔導士、竜騎士、吟遊詩人（ジョブ名はすべて仮称）※たぶん、戦士を言い忘れたと思われる。時期については明言できないが、特定の二つのクラスを一定ランクまであげると取得できる、複合ジョブも用意する。たとえば、幻術士と呪術士を両方育てると赤魔導士といった展開もあり得る。

translated by babel fish: As for the job which it is mounted planning with the job system, those which it is decisive, the knight, the monk, the white demon derived loyal retainer, the black demon derived loyal retainer, the dragon horseman and the wandering minstrel (as for job name are thought that all tentative names) * perhaps, you forgot to be the soldier. Concerning time you cannot declare, but when two classes of specification are increased to uniformity ranking, you can acquire, you prepare also compound job. For example, when both you raise the vision technique loyal retainer and the incantation loyal retainer, can be also the development such as the red demon derived loyal retainer.

No where in that response did it say that bard (wandering minstrel) was going to be one of the first 7 jobs or that you had to be an arc to be a bard.