I like that bard is a DD, it is a departure from the classic role, but being a bard in FFXI could be very boring sometimes. I like this new trigonal pattern of jobs, [DD, Tank, Healing ] You can spread support abilities through all three of these types of classes/jobs so that you have your main role to focus on and can provide some support to the rest of your group as well. This way you don't end up with situations where your bard's job is to join a party, buff it up with support, switch to the next party to buff, then the next party, and then sit and wait outside of the main fight, this happened in FFXI. I hope they don't add pure support jobs/classes to FFXIV.