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

[Vespar]

Exactly my point, people have taken this playstyle preference and used my argument as a "learn2play" issue or a "min/max dps" issue... when that's FAR from the case. Fact is, Square gave us a class and then completely changed its playstyle... that's not fair.

I agree, there are countless bards out there who liked the 2.X Vanilla bard and never wanted to play a caster. Myself included. It's not about the dps, and its not that many of us dont understand how to play a caster (ie the L2P fallacy). It's the fact that our playstyle didn't "evolve", it was flat-out changed entirely. In the view of the majority of bard posts I have read over the last few weeks, most bards feel their original playstyle was ripped out from under them w/o any warning.

At any rate, the folks in here refuse to see our reasoning and spit off claims that we shouldn't be allowed to be mobile. Bards were always mobile and yet in 2.X I barely heard a peep from anyone on the forums expressing displeasure that we were mobile. In fact, back then everyone seemed to enjoy the fact that Bard was mobile. It drew many to the role and became part of Bard's fun factor. Now that we have this stigma on our mobility, it feels like a good chunk of folks just came here to belittle us even further just to make themselves feel good. Whether or not that's there intent or that they dont want to see us changed, because it will make their class feel more inferior I can't rightly say....

Personally, I don't think I can main this new Bard with the changes they have made to it. While Im fine with playing a caster class, this isnt the bard I signed up for, nor is it the class I grew to love. If SE refuses to change us back to something more akin to 2.X Bard I will likely pick a new class.