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

[the-kuponut]

Problem is fun falls into the subjective category. My SCH too has changed in 3.0. Fairy scaling is pretty bull now, and SCH is like 90% of the heals now while fairy is only like the 10% (fairy was more relevant in ARR). We could argue about how that kills the essence of SCH since the fairy has been triviallized a lot...or SMNs;...same story, most of the damage comes from the SMN now, pet's damage is very little compared to ARR, also, SMN rotation has drastically changed. I don't see however, any SMNs or SCHs complaining...

The way you play SMN or SCH is still the same
Turning BRD into a mage is the same as turning SMN into melee

It's like instead of the new SMN abilities you get this:

"New SMN ability ! You can now only dps from close range and you can't use ruin or stack aether flow but hey you can use these two new abilities*

*two new abilities can't be used when not in melee stance"