Quote Originally Posted by Dreamer View Post
Bzzt! WRONG! Bard is a support-DPS hybrid. Bard is NOT a pure DPS job. Want to play as DPS? Stay archer. Classes don't magically disappear just because you unlock their jobs.

Look through your bard action list. There's what...one DPS ability? That one DPS ability doesn't make you a DPS job anymore than White Mage's one damage ability Holy makes them a DPS job.

However, I do think that they should probably change it to something besides healing, something more supporty. Maybe some kind of 10 second buff for party, debuff for all nearby enemies?
Having one support buff up at a time doesn't really make a DPS class much of a "hybrid"... Unless you think Monk becomes a "support-DPS hybrid" because of Mantra or something equally ridiculous. One ability is an attack, one is a self-buff, two are party buffs, and one's an enemy debuff. Not much of a "support" hybrid. Nevermind all the Archer skills... But people have already mentioned that in abundance.
Let's not even mention that Archer is stuck with the same limit break... You know, before they become all support-like.