Quote Originally Posted by wereotter View Post
Somehow? Have you not played FFVI or FFT? It was definitely a DPS job in its early days. It served as a counterpart to Bard, while Bard buffed the party, Dancer debuffed the enemy. Personally I'd be happiest to see Dancer as a support melee DPS and the introduction of Chemist as a healer, but that's unlikely at this point.
A shame they changed BRD from a healer to a DPS between 1.xx and 2.0, then we really would have gotten DNC DPS. Ahh well, what could have been, and all that.