Bard

[Panasync]

It's a beaten horse at this point, the fact that they have support songs puts them into a category this game doesn't have in some people's minds. They don't care that you get a debuff for using them, people don't care that all jobs have party utility and support in some sense, it just goes around in a circle.

Quite frankly I'm tired of discussing it. Unless they make a category in party for a secured slot for support and place BRD/MCH in it, we're a DPS. Yes we have support abilities, almost all jobs do, we're the only job punished when we use ours, and rightfully so, but that should be the only drawback. Bard/Machinist in WM w/o using support abilities should be able to compete at mid-range DPS at the very least. I haven't seen a convincing argument otherwise.

Healers have DPS capabilities, we don't call them DPS because of it.