Quote Originally Posted by Phobos View Post
I do want to see BRD being used for its purpose, but I think its kind of silly that it basically NEEDS to refresh the PLD and likely the WHM. What about the other 5 people? They aren't necessarily mages and may be too close to the WHM or PLD where it's not easy to give them too many buffs. That and BRD should still be able to DD some rather than run around singing to everyone.
I haven't unlocked bard yet so I don't know how bards work 100%, but is there no way to split songs in a party? Especially for fights like ifrit where positioning the group is fairly easy. For example, have the white mage + black mages stand together for ballad, and have DoW stand somewhere else for accuracy or whatever it is they want. Of course this will be difficult for some fights, but nothing some coordination of the party can't fix. I mean bards did this for years in FFXI.

I do agree that bards should not be constantly running around to do songs as they can do some decent damage. However, the fact that SE decided to give them access to conjurer and thaumaturge abilities gives me the idea that the job was designed to act as more of a support than damage.

I just think the job system is so fragile in terms of balance. It seems very hard to get right where all jobs have their own unique, awesome abilities, but at the same time not so overpowered as to make classes and other jobs useless. In my opinion, they did a very good job with the balance. I'm not saying it's perfect and doesn't need any fixes. They just need to be VERY careful.