Quote Originally Posted by Vickii View Post
Sadly, the players don't accept that second point very well so devs tend to homogenize everything. Then the same player who complained that Bard had a bad patch, comes back to complain that bard feels exactly the same as Black Mage. It's a vicious cycle.
That's exactly why bard is in the state it's in: homogenization due to the "OMG MOAR DEEPS" mentality that players have gotten.

Also, instead of trying to cram more damage skills in, devs could instead have solved this with more support abilities and use the same line about support abilities to compensate for damage output that they used for why astrologian does less damage than the other two healing jobs.