Bard - they broke my job

[Croisciento]

Geez, people are just talking about DPS while it's the least of our concerns honestly.

In the first place no one was playing bard because of its DPS else they would play another class. People were playing bard because it was fun to play a ranged dps without casting time even though it meant to have a lower dps. No one was really bitching about our numbers but SE gave us tools to increase our dps... right. They changed our core gameplay and that's the problem. They turned us into mages while still dealing less damage than other dps... The gameplay is almost 2 years old and they're changing it that makes no sense. I think everyone would have been happy if they gave us more utility without raising our dps.

[Choko_TS]

Geez, people are just talking about DPS while it's the least of our concerns honestly.

In the first place no one was playing bard because of its DPS else they would play another class. People were playing bard because it was fun to play a ranged dps without casting time even though it meant to have a lower dps. No one was really bitching about our numbers but SE gave us tools to increase our dps... right. They changed our core gameplay and that's the problem. They turned us into mages while still dealing less damage than other dps... The gameplay is almost 2 years old and they're changing it that makes no sense. I think everyone would have been happy if they gave us more utility without raising our dps.

This, exactly. I dont care about all this dps-crying at all. I cant stand the fact they changed THE core element of bards. Blackmages choose to be casters. Bards choose to be mobile. Even tho Bards couldnt really compete with other dps, our dps still wasnt bad and as long as your team hits the required dps-checks, its fine. I've been bard for nearly 2 years now. I enjoyed having important tasks like Renauds/Redfire etc. Absolutely dont understand, why they changed a class, that exists like this for 2 years by now. Should have only brought MCN with casttime, since its a new class. So people could choose between ranged with/out casttime.

[Croisciento]

Should have only brought MCN with casttime, since its a new class. So people could choose between ranged with/out casttime.

We can clearly see they developed MCH before BRD. The idea being "deleting" cast times with ammo is great since if you know you have to move soon you'll keep your ammo to keep GB while moving. But with bards it feels totally clunky and not natural at all. They thought it was unfair to give only the MCH cast time so they felt obligated to give bard some...

Every class in the extension was meant to be embellished not redesigned. BLM is probably the second class that changed the most and yet you can see how their new spells are an extension of their core gameplay which is being a turret. Bard core gameplay was hitting while moving without cast time, why didn't they keep up with this? Hope enough people cry about this change so I don't feel forced to play a class with cast times anymore.

[Ephier]

We can clearly see they developed MCH before BRD. The idea being "deleting" cast times with ammo is great since if you know you have to move soon you'll keep your ammo to keep GB while moving. But with bards it feels totally clunky and not natural at all. They thought it was unfair to give only the MCH cast time so they felt obligated to give bard some...

Every class in the extension was meant to be embellished not redesigned. BLM is probably the second class that changed the most and yet you can see how their new spells are an extension of their core gameplay which is being a turret. Bard core gameplay was hitting while moving without cast time, why didn't they keep up with this? Hope enough people cry about this change so I don't feel forced to play a class with cast times anymore.

Yoshi pretty much said yesterday in the live letter to get used to it.