Quote Originally Posted by SaitoHikari View Post
My assumption is that he simply calls himself one, but he's more like a common minstrel, not an archer or bow-trained practitioner of the Bard tradition that was recently revived in Gridania.

IIRC he did call himself a bard (or someone else referred to him as one) during the Thanalan introduction for characters that began the game with one of the jobs there.
Thanks for the info - I started in Gridania so never saw this dialogue. I just recalled he was a Rogue in ARR and eventually became Gunbreaker. I never saw him really storytell or play the bard-type, even outside of in-game class so it took me for quite the surprise. Instead he's always doing infiltrations and info-gathering more attune to a rogue, which matched his class.