Which Job, in your opinion, has the biggest identity issue?

[Connor]

100 million percent Bard.

Almost no relation or similarities to previous FF Bards, fails at the ‘ffxiv unique barcher’ iteration, fails gameplay-wise (extremely unpopular), it even fails aesthetically because it’s so confused about whether it’s a laser beam archer or a magic musician. Support is primarily full passive, boring, or borderline unnecessary (Paean / Minne / Troubadour).

The devs have literally said that Bard was a mistake before lol, kinda says it all

In my opinion the only way they’ll ever actually resolve this is if they ever separate Bard and Archer. Players numbers pretty clearly show the current iteration is not well-received at all. Except that would require actual effort and admitting they were wrong, so yeah, crappy Barcher that nobody wants to play is here to stay sadly

[BRVV]

In my opinion the only way they’ll ever actually resolve this is if they ever separate Bard and Archer.

Maybe for 8.0 because they could make Bard into a healer and Archer stay DPS. How should archer be called then? And then there is the problem of the jobquests but then again they didn't change any for the Astro changes XD

[Snorky]

100 million percent Bard.

Almost no relation or similarities to previous FF Bards, fails at the ‘ffxiv unique barcher’ iteration, fails gameplay-wise (extremely unpopular), it even fails aesthetically because it’s so confused about whether it’s a laser beam archer or a magic musician. Support is primarily full passive, boring, or borderline unnecessary (Paean / Minne / Troubadour).

The devs have literally said that Bard was a mistake before lol, kinda says it all

In my opinion the only way they’ll ever actually resolve this is if they ever separate Bard and Archer. Players numbers pretty clearly show the current iteration is not well-received at all. Except that would require actual effort and admitting they were wrong, so yeah, crappy Barcher that nobody wants to play is here to stay sadly

I have to agree, Bard was my first class when I returned 5 years ago. I played it til level 80 and dropped it because of the mess it was then. I love archer classes but it felt so out of sync with the fights which are dances. I truly believe archer and bard should be separated. Bards should weld instruments. That means dots and buffs. Bard truly has an identity crisis