I am super happy with my Bard, I am considering to create a Pala but I believe they do their job quite well. I do find my bard fun to play but doing Velganos the whole party dying to mechs or not being able to do the pizza and me not having enough damage to kill is a bit annoying and the other option would be to go for Soulfist or Sorcerer as those are classes I found to perform better. Not looking forward for Artist as it seems over complicated to play and partys don’t seem to choose it as a support as much vs Bard/Palla
I started as a Bard on EUC and moved to EUW because of the queues.
There I started with a Gunslinger, due to faster leveling and I played until 1365. I got addicted with the Glavier, which is acutally 1358.
As long as I can not create a new char in T3, I won’t consider playing a support and going through all this “boring” content again (I hate leveling!). 
i dont want to play my 2 sup really, sup items really expensive and i dont want to invest these items and gravings…
Im 1445 bard main, and I had 2 bards recently created a, but I will not push them BC t3 supp accessories is so fucking expensive, and that’s kinda sad
wdym? like honing sup gear costs more?
Accessories, getting their engraving up is brutally expensive. Most DPS monkey vendor support gear causing a shortage of gear for a small community.
I have a 1445 and 1415 bard with 4x3 and pally bard alt.
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Yeah, and that’s kinda sad 
I’m not sure why some people seem to only argue late game content when talking about artist.
Artist released in January 2022, bard was one of the original classes. It’s completely understandable that people wouldn’t main swap so late after they have spent so much time and resources building their main. The sooner a new class is released, the higher the chances that people will main swap.
Lets talk about late game numbers. I will quote a comment I posted on May 5, 2022.
"I filtered to 1580 and got the same numbers as your picture. Something interesting I found is that compared to the overall numbers associated with the roles in that GS range (damage dealer and support)
Sorc makes up 5.67% of damage dealers in that GS range and Artist makes up 5.62% of supports in that GS range.
I’m really not a math person, but if I calculated the right numbers, people did push Artist to endgame at nearly the same percent as Sorceress even though artist is newer.
Bard however, is sitting at a hefty 75.73% of supports in that GS range.
Also at 1600 GS range,
sorc is at 6.2% of damage dealers
artist is at 6.7% of supports."
This is a picture from 15 days ago. You can see that supports are at 21% in the gearscore range of 1580 to 1625.
This picture is from today, you can see that support numbers are going up in late game content.
This doesn’t solve the lack of supports, but this is just a solution to adapt to the circumstances.
1 Supp + 7 DPS team comp
Don’t use Grudge 3/Cursed Doll 3.
Use Heavy Armor 3/Purple pots ( 7/9)
Clearly people complaining about lacking support is about late game content. see the Ops statement below
What I am arguing here is more variety = the likelihood that people who play supports will find one they enjoy and stick with it. This is just a nice dream everyone has until it is crushed by reality.
As other KMMO games with dealer and support only as an example, DFO, the game had only one support at the start, people were asking more, added 2nd class, people were still asking more, 3rd support came in, there are still not enough supports in end game content. at the end we had to make a rule in our guild that every 4th character you bring into late game raid have to be a support, just to force them to play it.
More variety will create one major problems.
- Class discrimination
DPS is already facing this, since there are so many variants in the classes, and the ones that don’t perform well are going to be ignored most of the time when they finding a party, this will happen to supports, people will pick the best support classes to do their job, they will not care if you really enjoying it or not, if we had a wide variety of supports.
What I suggest, instead of bringing more variety is:
Specific gearing/ progression event that only target supports. so everyone who has not yet gotten resources to gear support will have the opportunity to do so.
I wonder why Artist is 1.45% on the list. is it because she is not fun/strong?
No, I believe it is because that most player like to play her, but doesn’t have enough resources to push her into late game content.
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Let me just say this: don’t use korean server numbers to justify things on global server. We do not play on korean servers our numbers are different.
People try to justify class balance with korean numbers too, it’s not right.
There are a ton of sorcs, a lot of zerks and blades, and some of the other classes.
Most of the supports in game are actually somebody’s alt.
Even If we had like 5-6 support classes most people would just make “an alt” support.
Ppl are not creating supp alts cuz bring that alt to T1, T2, T3, 1415 its so slow and boring
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Even If they give power pass to 1415 for supports i wont Play paladin or bard coz they are boring.We can Just delete all classes and Play zerk,blade sorc.We dont need more…
i just got rejected as 1400 bard in 3 p3 argos groups. my alt btw just a 3x3+1
First time???
That sounds like, you are more of a meta chaser than a person that will enjoy a class by its playstyle.
Eh Thats why i Play artilerist 1396 and glavier1411.My zerk is parked at ilvl 360 from th first week.Did play him for 6 hour.My sorc is 302 and my blade is 1340.I injoy more scrapper that db but at start noone In my guild wanted to play with scrapper….Feel kinda sad about it.
I feel bad about people who don’t want to play with your scrapper, no idea why. she is the most balanced class already if not broken.
It was at start.Ppl did look at the dmg of zerk,blade and sorc and they did choose meta…And now i dont feel like to Play her again for some reasons.
My alt bard parked at 1380 and gonna stay there for a while, cause honing now past 1370 is not efficent, cause support equip cost tons of gold. Im gonna start honing it as soon as we get some honing buffs.