Why are bards / Mechanists so... Sensitive? <_<

[Lillia]

OP ppl take the game too seriously. Thats all. I dont think it was a big deal myself, and baffled at the negative reaction in the thread. Its just a game at the end of the day, the joke in no way made a personal attack on the player, and merely poked fun at his job.

These same ppl throwing tantrums made fun of drgs for years. Now its suddenly not okay to poke fun at a job?

Actually, I for one have never told a DRG.. "Ew, DRG" upon seeing them in a Dgn or getting one. Sure I'd join a joke of lawlgoon but I never toss it out there nor start that joke. Most the time it was the Dragoon to start the joke on themselves with the whole "I died again" stuff.

I like DRGs, they burst out good dps and help bards and I enjoyed playing one for however short-lived it was when I was doing so for B4B. Though... it wasn't even the fact that he was joking about the job but rather the comment he chose to joke with.

I'd love to know where this whole "Support DPS" idea comes from and why people keep perpetuating it. It doesn't exist its construct people use to justify what is a blatantly stupid discrepancy in DPS numbers.

We are DPS/Support, when people need TP or MP who do you think fills it? Us. When a caster needs that small boost then who do you think sings to tug them up in numbers a little more? Us.

Yes, by that term any job can be 'support' however we have more supportive abilities than they do with normally a longer span than they do. If we were just pure DPS then we wouldn't be stopping to sing and fill these needs as part of our 'role', We'd have less supportive abilities and higher DPS.

As a matter of fact we would fit the role of Ranger much more if it came to that and much less a Bard whose almost always been seen as a more supportive role than DPS in the FF series.

And when I say "us" or "our" I do include you when you're on the job unless you leave healers and dps high and dry.