Quote Originally Posted by XStruckX View Post
As it is now we are an ARC that can do a couple of extra buffs. BOOM that's the bard. Kinda lame imo.
Your opinion is noted. I disagree with it, but it is noted nevertheless.

You missed my point, though. The classic bard had the songs as the back up/flavor of the class. That's why D&D Bards were strong as hell and were ridiculously versatile. They were a rogue/archer that could sing and buff their group. That's what we have now. As ranged damage dealer makes sense in this context and may even lure people to playing the job, I'm all for this if it will keep the idiocy of the princess BRD from happening again. I'm not going to support anything that will turn BRD into a class that few are willing to play so that the shrewd can abuse that to hold parties and entire endgame shells hostage.

And people are looking for an additional mage because their minds demand symetry, which doesn't exist at the moment. I don't think most realize that magic is so cut and dry in FF that you'd need to turn Geomancer or Blue Mage into pure casters and build from there. The approach XIV has taken to magic demands that each caster has its own type of magic, so we're kind of limited until the devs can invent something. As I've said elsewhere, I don't care what they come up with as long as I get my magic fencer RDM at the end of the day.