Quote Originally Posted by Shougun View Post
All of the FF that had bard they were all song, in westerns Bard is usually an after thought addition - in FF it was a focal point.

However in FFXIV its an after thought and I really dislike that.

In westerns your bard may sing one song with a buff and then shoot 90% of the time - their main focus isnt to be singing/playing music and rather is an addendum of whatever they evolved from - and the addendum aspect for jobs is lame - thankfully most of the classes are built into the job, but Bard is one of them that its a clear addendum and no focus.

If you can reason to me that black mages should be warriors and warriors should be thief's, chocobos should be moogles and moogles should look like Sephiroth then I'll agree that the Bard was a success.
As someone who played ranger I was bummed on having to play "bard" because no one played "archer". Then I took bard up to 50 (grudgingly at that) and found I really enjoy it. It plays a lot like a Ranger would, I need to stop dd'ing to refresh songs and then I can go back to what I enjoy. I feel like bard has the perfect balance. I would like some more abilities/skills, but too much more would make it more would take away the focus on dd'ing the mob. To me it's seems pretty well balanced right now.


As for the post where it was said no one will be starting in Gridania, I think we'll see a lot more people than anticipated. I know I started in Ul'dah and I hated it. I'm looking forward to starting in Gridania where both the Archer's and Carpenter's guild are located!