[Irisviel]

Chanters are suppose to be "buffers", not a melee combat specialist like gladiators and assassins. The reason people are complaining about the chanter lately is because they expected chanters to be the best support class in party but problem is that their buffs aren't much of "big deal" atm. Their armor buff and hp buff doesn't really boost your armor and hp by alot and their combat skill isn't amazing as gladiators or assassins. Developers can't buff them just like that either since if their melee damage is buffed too much, about same level as gladiator and assasin, they would be invincible since they have buffs, and can heal themselves. I am sure they will find some kind of solution regarding this matter to balance things out.

So, currently chanters's buffs aren't much of upgrade, their dps isn't as good as assassin/gladiator and their heal is worse than cleric. Maybe they aren't that useless at high level but at low level they aren't that great that's for sure. Don't worry too much about chanter being weak though, they will balance things out eventually.