Bard should have been something like this...

[kyuven]

Kinda tired so I kinda skipped over reading posts that arn't on the 1st page but since its a bard thread here's my 2 gil, rename Bard to Ranger replace the songs with Ranger stuff, and when 3.0 hits and jobs can exist without class's give us a bard that is actually a bard...
Barcher is alright, I enjoy it and all, but i'd much much rather have a real bard AND a true archer and not a hybrid :3

The entire aesthetic of the bard is...well, bardlike. They'd have to go back and redo the way ALL the armor looks to do that.
Also...now follow me here...
It is a really, really bad idea to change the fundamentals of an entire job/class over a year after the game goes live.
It's been tried before, and it's like trying to change a beehive into a baseball bat.
Bards are the way they are. It's not changing, or at least not as drastically as people in this thread want.

[Mizore_Canaan]

The entire aesthetic of the bard is...well, bardlike. They'd have to go back and redo the way ALL the armor looks to do that.
Also...now follow me here...
It is a really, really bad idea to change the fundamentals of an entire job/class over a year after the game goes live.
It's been tried before, and it's like trying to change a beehive into a baseball bat.
Bards are the way they are. It's not changing, or at least not as drastically as people in this thread want.

I don't think swapping out 5 job skills and renaming the job counts as drastic, and as I said, this should be done in 3.0 they don't have to change the old stuff that way, its useless by then anyway and it gives people who played then a "hey look" gear set to show of to people who join in after expac

[kyuven]

I don't think swapping out 5 job skills and renaming the job counts as drastic, and as I said, this should be done in 3.0 they don't have to change the old stuff that way, its useless by then anyway and it gives people who played then a "hey look" gear set to show of to people who join in after expac

when they're integral to the playing style, yes, yes it's drastic. At that point you may as well keep bards the way they are and just make a new job.