Quote Originally Posted by Riaayo View Post
Because the days of a buffing class that just buffs and sits on its ass are over. If you think Bard exists only to sing you are not understanding Bard 2.0. This bard buffs, and then DPs and enfeebles as well with its con/thm nukes such as Aero, Stone and Blizzard. Furthermore Bard can act as a slight backup healer since it will be 1 of the 3 jobs that can even equip cure anymore, and will probably be on raise duty as well since it is, again, 1 of 3 that will have said spell.

Edit: I should note that Bard obviously will not be able to do ALL of this at once due to the 5 cross-class limit, so it will be highly based on the encounter I think, or based on if you are using 2 bards (1 equipping enfeebling nukes and another equipping buffs/cure & raise).
I'm sorry, did you forget bard has a bow. If I saw a bard nuking instead of shooting arrows I'd boot them..