Bard - they broke my job

[Cetonis]

1) Why kill bard's mobility?
2) WHY remove our auto attack potential in both the Barage nerf and WM?
3) Why does Bard damage scale so poorly with new gear?

1) They didn't, it's intended to be an optional stance to bridge the target dummy dps gap in situations where mobility is irrelevant.

2) Not certain; but they probably wanted to make extra sure that WM was really bad when you need to move a lot. Remember, it's supposed to be a -secondary- mode, not something Bards would be in all or even the majority of the time. So I suspect a lot of WM's weakness stems from SE trying to make dead certain WM wasn't just always-better than normal mode.

3) Secondary stats were re-scaled for everybody. Because of Bard's special relationship with Crit, this may have hurt them harder than it did other classes, but that's a presumption on my part with no math to back it.