Quote Originally Posted by GMERC View Post
Exactly, though I will play devil's advocate say we already have some precedent of wasting the potential of Bard by mixing it with Ranger.

Not that I necessarily dislike the end result, I'm just thinking about what could have been.
I don't know, I'd argue that Bard in ffxiv is a positive example of what I'm talking about. Neither Bard nor Ranger have super distinct identities and visually what established style they have is pretty shared between them (tunics and feathered hats). FFXIV's bard is also a product of 1.0 which kind of played by slightly different rules.

It makes a lot more sense to combine ranger and bard, given they have a lot more overlap visually and mechanically from past games, as opposed to taking two very different jobs with very different visual identities and trying to cram them together.