Quote Originally Posted by Razard View Post
So... a bunch of either useless, niche skills or utterly game breaking spells.

Blue mage is that way ----------------------->

In all seriousness the only reason people want a "pure support class" is because they want to be the Princess Bard from ffxi again. Where every group wants them (yet, paradoxically very few people wanted to play it) and everyone showers them with praise because they park their butt on the other side of the arena and do the equivalent of:

Don't know what game you played. BRD was a more active job than any other job in XI. You were constantly doing things and repositioning, while other jobs just auto-attacked most of the time.