I chose BRD for swift gameplay, if I wanted to cast I would have chosen a Mage.

[Vespar]

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You had 60 levels to learn how to play a caster and perfect it. We had 8 levels to learn to do so...
When you've spent your whole time on a class with the freedom of mobility to just suddenly have that ripped out from under you takes time to relearn and adapt to your already learned behavior/muscle memory. It is difficult to relearn something like that and adjust it in a relatively short period of time. Then add in the new actions and record into muscle memory where you have placed those on your hot bar. Then add in the stigma of when we mess up because we were looking at our hotbar for a new action and failed to miss an aoe. Or try to dodge an aoe, but fail a DPS check because we are stuck in a stance we cant get out of for another 6-12seconds but need to avoid a mass amount of aoe or what have you....

I could care less about the overall dmg output that bard currently does. The transition from vanilla bard to WM bard has many of us irritated and all you are doing with your comparing blm to bard is rubbing salt in the wounds of every bard who currently dislikes the change.

[UBERHAXED]

You had 60 levels to learn how to play a caster and perfect it. We had 8 levels to learn to do so...
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First off, you should play BLM at 60 before you claim that you don't have to completely different playstyle than at 50 (short of just choosing not to use the moves, which naturally bards have this option too). If it's not about the DPS (as you claim), then don't use it.

I did start off as bard and when I played all the caster classes, then went back to bard I released that there was no point of being mobile. You're talking about an issue changing gameplay style when you gameplay did not revolve around moving, unlike classes which did, like melee.

[Duelle]

The transition from vanilla bard to WM bard has many of us irritated and all you are doing with your comparing blm to bard is rubbing salt in the wounds of every bard who currently dislikes the change.

As I mentioned before, other jobs have had actual additions to their gameplay. DRGs aren't forced to relearn their class from scratch, and simply have to figure out where Blood of the Dragon fits into their existing gameplay. SMN with their Bahamut Trance is basically the same, as this was added to their existing gameplay. As a PLD, I got Shelltron added to my rotation for blocking and MP recovery on top of a DoT combo I can apply should I choose to; my gameplay wasn't turned on its head by the additions.