Bard and how to fix it.

[Viar]

I am trying to ease up the OGCD flow on the bard, by removing potencies from skills that are not meant as damaging tools at their core.
I agree that Blunt Arrow isn't particularly harmful to our rotation, but having it serve just for its purpose would still make our overall OGCD flow smoother.

I know. Count me all the situations you'd use Blunt Arrow in raids as it should be used? T1, T2... and?

A DRG is not really limited in his movement and Elusive Jump serves quite a different role for them

The point was that DRG couldn't Elusive Jump their ass out of plumes the way BRD could.

Still unsure about WP

SS2 on BRD, always dreamed of this. (not really)

[Snowaeth]

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That's the point of removing potency from Blunt Arrow, so we don't need to weave it in our usual rotation anymore lowering the amount of overal OGCD's used.
You'd still use it in occasions like back in the day T1, T2, T9, Chimera etc, but it would be just like the MCH utility skills with no potency or like BLM Lethargy just a utility skill.
I do however see the use of a little damage on OGCD skills so you could also add the potency of Repelling Shot on top of Blunt Arrow, since Blunt Arrow is the one that flows better.

I am not sure if I understand your Elusive Jump point still.
Dragoons do not come with cast times.
The new use of Repelling would be to be able to finish casts then jump out of the spot on the same cooldown as the BLM Aether Manipulation skill.
It would still be limited in its use since it still pushes you away from the target rather than wherever you want to go.

As for WP, I just don't know what to do with it, there are many ways to make it useful.
It does not look like SE is planning to put a strong skill in that spot and it does seem they want it to be a utility song so I guess something with that in mind.
Which makes the ideas of party wide strong buffs something not likely to happen.

[Duelle]

I know. Count me all the situations you'd use Blunt Arrow in raids as it should be used? T1, T2... and?

This doesn't say much, other that the devs regrettably have stayed away from interrupt rotations (probably because interrupts are not spread out to enough classes to warrant a raid having that aspect covered).