Bard - they broke my job

[Edellis]

Auto attacks, movement, cast times, GCD clipping, all of this stuff can easily be compensated for in rebalancing. I really wish people would quit bringing it up when we already have Devs confirming that they're working on changing it.

I think the changes were made in the first place because they do not like the idea of 2.0 bards being competitive DPS. Just giving them more skills to press when they're up and increasing some base power MAY make them competitive, but if thats all 3.0 bard was going to be, i never would have bothered playing the class again.

As it were, it was a mechanic-empty class, it got to ignore most of the stuff in fights because there's zero risk involved in playing 2.0 Bard. If short cast times are what it takes to add some more interesting gameplay to the class, i really don't care. It's nice to be able to derp around and spam attacks and occasionally sing when your party needs it, but that kind of boring gameplay is why i stopped maining bard in the first place.