I guess it's time

[RiceisNice]

I don't even play Bard, don't even know its actions. Just going off what people have told me when I ask "what does this thing the bard casts do?" and they say its a support ability. I don't even wanna argue about this. I know nothing about bard so I don't want to pretend I know what I'm talking about.

Well, your DRG has abilties like disembowel and battle illianity, while also having access to mantra. What do you feel those debuffs do? It not only improves your personal performance, but the party as well. BRD and MCH have full access to dps abilties as well, but rather than having something like crit buff, they have mana/tp regen which still helps the party. But you'd still be bringing those jobs to fill in the primary purpose of a dps, because that's what they are made to do.

You can just take a quick look at what abilities they gain as they level; Out of their 16+ skills, only 4 would truly be considered as something that effect people that isn't just themselves, and the first one isn't gained until level 30; the rest is dps skills. MCH doesn't get their regen until 42, and their damage reduction abilties like dismantle mirrors that of virus and storm's path. Likewise as BRD, you'd bring a MCH to fill in the role of a dps with the party composition in mind, much like how you'd bring in a warrior or DRG to fill in the role of tank or dps, but keeping in mind of what they bring to the table. That's sort of why a true-support job wouldn't work in the current deisgn, it'd start to compete with existing slots unless they redesign all instanced content to require larger groups and encounters with them in mind.