Bard Rant (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

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If you'll excuse the somewhat snarky overtone(As it was intended for a different thread), i'll post my response to someone else who was complaining about Bards, as this is pretty much how i feel about Minuet right now.
Please also keep in mind that i live in Australia, so lag is a huge factor for me.

I still don't get the hatred for Minuet and Gauss Barrel. They are not boosting our DPS as much as they should, but thats just a numbers tweak away from being fine.

Breaking Bards? Uhh ... I hated Bard during 2.x, got to 50 only for the achievement/title.
Now though? Minuet makes Bard feel way better to play.
-I dont feel like a BLM, my casts are short enough to allow me most of my mobility by stutter stepping.
-I love seeing big crits (Well, big for a Bard!) while using Minuet.
-I love the hand in the quiver animation for the cast.
-I love that Iron Jaws not only refreshes DoTs back to full but also gives said DoTs Rs/BfB/IR/HE damage bonuses to the refreshed DoTs. Proper timing lets me have a 20% bonus damage to my DoTs for 36 seconds straight, while also trading a WB for HS.
-I love that Empy Arrow is off the global recast, and has a RECAST of 15 seconds (reduced via Skill Speed) rather than a flat cooldown while ALSO being off the global recast.
-Sidewinder looks like its going to be a delicious nuke.
-Wardens looks like its going to be VERY handy once they make it easier to cast.

All these things together have taken BRD to my second favorite Job next to MCH.

While there has been some very vocal outrage, I for one am quite happy with how Minuet changed up the Bard, and is now much more fun for me to play.

I wanted to facepalm myself so hard when people tried to argue that Barrage wasn't nerfed in any way and rather buffed since you will play in Minuet 100% of the anyways...(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

Depends on how you look at it. Barrage in its old form was invisible damage (outside of seeing the AA damage pop up 3 times) Sure it was damage and therefore good, but at 2.5 seconds between AAs? You get 5 Barraged AAs. Barely 1k damage all up.
Take the new Barrage.
Barrage -> Empy Arrow -> 3.4k damage at 58.
I'd say it was buffed.