Bard Rant (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

[Croisciento]

People clearly haven't played pre 3.0 BRD. BRD never lost dps while moving. The only thing that was a dps loss movement wise was not facing the target. In fact movement was required in order to do max dps with repelling shot.

Its hard to not loose DPS while moving. Some people are using legacy mode while some don't. Also even while not using legacy I still had dps drops when moving even thought I was clearly moving around by strafing. The only way I've found to deal with this was to use the focus feature. So I wouldn't say you're not loosing dps everytime you move but from my experience you loose some.

[JohnMccain]

Its hard to not loose DPS while moving. Some people are using legacy mode while some don't. Also even while not using legacy I still had dps drops when moving even thought I was clearly moving around by strafing. The only way I've found to deal with this was to use the focus feature. So I wouldn't say you're not loosing dps everytime you move but from my experience you loose some.

This makes no sense. The only time you wouldn't get auto attacks in was if you were facing >~80 degrees if you drew a straight line from you to the target. If you strafe you will never miss any auto attacks. You can go test it out for yourself on a target dummy.

[SonTensei]

So with the 2 extreme primal fights we currently have, 1 of them makes no sense to use WM at all aside from breaking the carapice (Bismark EX), and the other you pretty much HAVE To use it unless you hit esc every time its casted to prevent autoattacking the shields (Ravana EX).

The sooner people get used to mixing different play styles the better.

That said my biggest beef with the WM skill is

1. The cast timer of WM - its essentially like any other toggle skill with the exception of a cast timer... make it instant like Cleric Stance or give us swiftcast
2. The oopmh isnt enough to trade off not having autoattack..

Other than that the other big beef is our utterly useless lv 58 skill, Wardens Peaon.. its absolutely trashtastic- i was really hoping we would have gotten a regen type skill for hp. but i guess that would break the game. They need to redo the lv 58 skill, in fact maybe come up with something new for it all together.

[enil]

you pretty much HAVE To use it unless you hit esc every time its casted to prevent autoattacking the shields (Ravana EX).

Auto attacks don't proc the shield...

[ruskie]

Other than that the other big beef is our utterly useless lv 58 skill, Wardens Peaon.. its absolutely trashtastic- i was really hoping we would have gotten a regen type skill for hp. but i guess that would break the game. They need to redo the lv 58 skill, in fact maybe come up with something new for it all together.

What I'd like to see here is cast it on an enemy and it can take 2 dots and then spreads them to surrounding enemies - aka a bane - or make it a buff on anyone that makes an attack spread.

With the new aoe potential I really want for something like bane. Those RoD procs over and over and over and over. Free insane aoe. Actually like that the aoe is a bit more complex than bashing a single button and waiting on a proc.

Another option that was given as an idea in another thread is make it something that performs the funciton of a swiftcast/rapid fire.