Musings of a Bard

[aabe]

I honestly am enjoying WM, BRD never really had a rotation and the priority system was quite simple but when you chuck in a caster stance with less opportunity for oGCD and add fights with movement, you get something that deepens the priority system quite a bit and gives the job a bit more finesse to separate who's good and who's not.
Clipping dots early if you think they'll drop because you won't be able to recast IJ, prioritizing specific oGCDs depending on what's happening and what'll be next, (maybe) holding SS procs for a GCD to set up empy+barrage with less clipping or planning around movement that's coming very soon, etc, all this type of stuff adds a much more clear gap than what we had before, which was more or less "if you're decent at bard, you're almost at the skill cap, if you're good at bard, you do a million different minmaxy things for an underwhelming gain that nobody will really notice or care for"

If they allow you to dance in and out of it easier some of that will be taken away, but if they make WM more desirable to "everybody" I'll be happy to see how much BRD dps fluctuates based on skill level.