Since when is Bard an Archer?

[Finchley]

Hello peeps, can some one explain to me how a bard which plays a flute and buffs people with war cries and songs , is actually and archer in ff14 ? I only have experience with bard in ff11 and it deffo didn't have a bow !!

[Molly_Millions]

FFXIV =/= FFXI

[zaviermhigo]

How are you so late on this, we've know arc=brd for months now, if you need explanation maybe you should look and see BARDS don't use HARPS in this game, since there will be no job specific weapons, brds will be using bows, even after that the weapon advertised is like a bow-harp, more bow than instrument. Please check concept art readily available and the new job weaponskill video on youtube before posting something everyone already knows.

[Finchley]

How are you so late on this, we've know arc=brd for months now, if you need explanation maybe you should look and see BARDS don't use HARPS in this game, since there will be no job specific weapons, brds will be using bows, even after that the weapon advertised is like a bow-harp, more bow than instrument. Please check concept art readily available and the new job weaponskill video on youtube before posting something everyone already knows.

Oh I see , well I knew arc unlocked bard I just thought it was strange that arc would unlock bard but didn't think much of it until I watched the new job weapon skills and wondered why they showing arc and then realised it was the bard and I was like wtf ?? Any how I find it very strange that a Mage job Is now more a mele jon

[Tonkra]

Oh I see , well I knew arc unlocked bard I just thought it was strange that arc would unlock bard but didn't think much of it until I watched the new job weapon skills and wondered why they showing arc and then realised it was the bard and I was like wtf ?? Any how I find it very strange that a Mage job Is now more a mele jon

what have bards to do with magic? nothing... (in other rpgs bards dont use MANA)

and i think its aussum the way they designed bard in FFXIV.

in FFXI bards are just there for buffing the group .. and mostly had white mage as a subjob .. they were really gimped when it comes to curing (less MP)

now in FFXIV bards have MUCH more to do than only rebuffing the group every minutes.. i think bard is much more interesting now. and a supporter role does very fit to a ranged attacker like the archer is.
this idea was really brillant and is really something new.


bards in other MMOs have been mostly very boring. (just playing instruments for most of the time and thats it).. and hey in which MMO you have a class with a bow that is half of an instrument and transforms into a harp?


brillant fresh idea i think it is. and thats what FFXIV needs, fresh new ideas and ways. i think the FFXIV bard will work really great.. he isnt in close range when it comes to combat and can rebuff the group safeley from the distance. and he can do some damage also, that he isnt useless after buffing the group.

i regret right now that i dont have leveled my arch class..

[syntaxlies]

How are you so late on this, we've know arc=brd for months now, if you need explanation maybe you should look and see BARDS don't use HARPS in this game, since there will be no job specific weapons, brds will be using bows, even after that the weapon advertised is like a bow-harp, more bow than instrument. Please check concept art readily available and the new job weaponskill video on youtube before posting something everyone already knows.

then why is there a giant harp attached to the bow

[zaviermhigo]

then why is there a giant harp attached to the bow

Did you not see the part where I clearly said even after JSW it will be more bow than harp? You should read before accusing me of not looking.

[VoltaAsura]

then why is there a giant harp attached to the bow

You can't go by that kind of logic in this game when it comes to weapons.

By saying that, you could've insinuated (before the moogle fight came out and you knew better), that the mog on the Moogle bow helped you in battle, or casted kupo magic on you or allies. Just because it's visually there, does not mean it is functionally. I think it would be complicated and difficult to make that kind of movement/functionality with a weapon in ffxiv as it is now, perhaps in 2.0...

[Wynn]

Since SE needed another support class and ARC was the only one that even remotely made sense compared to what was left.

[Isaveron]

Since SE needed another support class and ARC was the only one that even remotely made sense compared to what was left.

Would have made more sense to release Bard as a class, like how it was going to be.