i barely see BRDs anymore and possible Utility fixes

[Samsta]

I made a thread about this earlier and I think it's outright maddening that a job named bard barely has anything to do with buffs and group support anymore. they could have given bards a different kind of utility than dancers. I don't know why they removed all mana regeneration utility other than ones that restore mp to yourself but I wouldn't mind seeing bard getting an mp refresh utility back, I mean there are definitely still uses to it in case of a healer dying or having to raise too much. We can have 2 ranged supports, just give bards different kind of utility. Songs don't have anything to do with songs anymore, in every fantasy setting and game bard songs are group buffs, and that's what I would expect them to be in this one as well. They might as well be weaponskills now.

The job itself is fine, but it's not a bard anymore, it's a ranger.

[HyoMinPark]

BRD feels a lot like RDM to me. Both jobs I loved in SB but I played them to death and old rotation is just old to me now. BRD/RDM got solid QoL changes but besides that are essentially same job with same rotation. While they are a good job and I probably love them if I never played SB. Sadly I have and I have no interesting playing a exact copy of a job I already spent last few years playing.

I'm the opposite. I would prefer nothing more than smaller tweaks as opposed to a brand new rotation or way of playing. BRD already underwent that twice before: from 2.x to 3.x and from 3.x to 4.x. There's no need to completely overhaul jobs every expansion in terms of how they play; just give them additional mechanics that flow naturally into their rotations as they level from one cap to the next and make them feel powerful. As if they have actually grown. So far, BRD fulfills only half of that: Apex Arrow is definitely lacking and doesn't make you feel particularly stronger at 80 due to its current scaling.