Quote Originally Posted by Connor View Post
What does everyone else think? Should Bard become more support-oriented? Less? Or is it fine the way it is?
Having loved my FF11 Bard and enjoying support roles, it's my opinion that the newest changes to Bard are a step in the wrong direction. My limited experience with Archer (lvl 35 in phase 3) from beta made the class already seem like a strong DD that would be able to hold up DPS with any other class. I understand that songs reduce dps but even so, it seemed like a reasonable trade off for their raid utility. If anything, I would have preferred seeing more spells or songs offering things like a single target vitality boost or PBAoE elemental resistance buff instead of a damage increase.

The outcry for a ranged DD should have been refocused toward Musketeer and Archer/Bard should have been left alone... I'm still excited to return to my old job, but those are just my thoughts.