Last straw

[Yonnji]

What do you lose?

• Invigorate? You gain a better skill in the form of a song that increases not only your TP gain, but also the entire party's.
• Blood for Blood? Tested to give a static increase to damage done independent of the skill it is used on. Also only effects first hit in multistage skills. Not an essential buff by a longshot. Negligible difference. This can be confirmed on Carraway's Guide to Archer.
• Second Wind/Cure? Party environment with a WHM who is much more adept at healing than CNJ is at the moment. Coupled with ARC's native damage mitigation skills and overall safety it's not a huge loss. Certainly not one to be brought up on the comparison of being a ranged DD.

I will assume you are not trying to teach me how to play an archer. Because I do have all these skills on my task bars. Of course, they serve me, and me alone.

You seem to be under the impression that on BRD you will simply be standing still repeatedly using song spells to buff the party. The idea behind FFXIV's BRD is clearly that of support DPS as well as party buffs.

This is an awfuly optimistic assessment. You do not even know yet how long these buffs are gonna last, nor anyone else. 4-5 minutes? I can probably live with that. 2 min or less? No, thank you. I'd rather do my main job - shoot arrows.

I'd rather part ways with SE than start playing just the way they want me to. The problem is not wvwn that I don't like to play a support class per se. The problem is that SE informed me that I will have to eventually play a support class or else, 14 months after I bought their box. That will not do.