If people wish to boycott Bard or Machinist because they feel like all we have received since HW are nerfs, be my guest. If people wish to remain as BRD/MCH but choose to ignore WM/GB, I will be the first to judge you for underutilising the job and essentially kneecapping yourself, as you are doing nothing but lowering your own dps for not even trying to master the supposedly "brand new" (see any casting class) playstyle. It's been a couple of weeks, I guarantee you did not master 2.0 bard this quickly. You didn't create the class, Square Enix did, and they have the right to do with their assets as they wish. I enjoy the changes, and I think Square Enix did a good job of quickly fixing the initial issues with the class. I was hoping that with the 3.01 fixes there would be less of this garbage about these classes circulating but you just can't please everyone.