All physical range DPS are perfect now!

[Super_Smiley]

Thank you Final Fantasy XIV development team for making all 3 physical range jobs amazing to play! No need for a overhaul in 6.0. Amazing work!

[LunarEmerald]

If you prefer bard being ranger over bard.

[Dyvid]

If you prefer bard being ranger over bard.

Have to agree. BRD needs some of it's utilities back.

[Risvertasashi]

If you prefer bard being ranger over bard.

This has been fairly requested... but, my thought is, if they're going to do this - take away the song/music themed aspects. Feels weird occasionally pulling out an instrument or using stuff like Pitch Perfect on Ranger.

(That said, personally, I'd like a bit more support. I originally played BRD as it was a support-y DPS, and I still like the bow fantasy enough to stick with it, but... jeez do I feel selfish on it)

[RowanLauron]

I'd prefer a ranger job. If we are to have a musical buff support job, turn bard into ranger and bring in songstress.

[gnatters]

Oh, def. MCH and DNC are super fun as they are now. BRD, however, needs some adjustments. As a ranger, it's super fun. The numbers are great. But the whole bard concept is halfhearted now and really needs a buff. Either we need more things we can use to buff the party during songs or our songs need to go back to buffing the party again.

I'd prefer a ranger job. If we are to have a musical buff support job, turn bard into ranger and bring in songstress.

I would also be totally okay with that. Splitting archer's jobs into two (like SMN and SCH) and having one job be BRD and the other be ranger would be absolutely choice.

[battleshadow66]

This has been fairly requested... but, my thought is, if they're going to do this - take away the song/music themed aspects. Feels weird occasionally pulling out an instrument or using stuff like Pitch Perfect on Ranger.

(That said, personally, I'd like a bit more support. I originally played BRD as it was a support-y DPS, and I still like the bow fantasy enough to stick with it, but... jeez do I feel selfish on it)

Well, if they did that, they would have to rename the class to Ranger.

[Avyiur]

Well, if they did that, they would have to rename the class to Ranger.

I think bard at this point would benefit from being renamed to Ranger since most of the aspects that made it bard are no longer there. As Rowan stated earlier this would give them the ability to bring in another seperate job that has bard aspects again whether that be in the form of a newly remade Bard or a new job like Songstress.

[HyoMinPark]

I would also be totally okay with that. Splitting archer's jobs into two (like SMN and SCH) and having one job be BRD and the other be ranger would be absolutely choice.

The developers admitted that having ACN split into SCH and SMN was a bad decision, and I believe they said that they have no further plans to have a class split off into two separate jobs again. The best you’d get would be Ranger added as a DPS job in a new expansion. I’d rather BRD not be overhauled for the third time in a row into either Ranger or Songstress. Especially since BRD already has a well established lore in FFXIV (that the current job design ironically goes against).

[battleshadow66]

I think bard at this point would benefit from being renamed to Ranger since most of the aspects that made it bard are no longer there. As Rowan stated earlier this would give them the ability to bring in another seperate job that has bard aspects again whether that be in the form of a newly remade Bard or a new job like Songstress.

I would rather them go back to pushing the Bard aspect. Ranger would just be Machinist 2.0 and they already changed that class enough so it wasn't a sorta BRD copycat cjob.