Bard - they broke my job

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No bard ever complained about this and very few bards run around in circles that I have seen, yet this seems to be a comment statement made towards bards who dislike wanderer's minuet.

The issue with wanderer's minuet is how slow the job feels with the 1.5 seconds cast time, and with the cast time plus animations it leaves little time for off cool down attacks, especially with random procs.

Wanderer's minuet adds no difficulty to the class, just seems like an unnecessary addition, which takes a lot away. Our dps would be fine with just the 3 new attacks usable without wanderer's minuet, keeping auto attacks and adding 2 new support songs in place of wanderer's minuet and warden's paeon, which is mostly useless.

We have a thread providing ways to make wanderer's minuet better and less clunky anyways.

I am "whining" about it because I would like to see BRD recieve some proper QoL fixes.

To the bards who are actually talking about the problems that they would like addressed I have the utmost respect.

From my current understanding, the animation of heavy shot is way too long. By the time the animation is over you have already started to cast your second heavy shot which could lead to potentially wasting procs of straighter shot similar to a black mage.

MCH suffers from the same thing when we are setting up for our burst phase, Hawkeye, blood for blood, rapid fire and wildfire, two of which have to be popped together which will bleed into the GCD a little. The damage gain is worth it in our situation.

The problem with taking away WM means BRD would regain their mobility, even if you put a cast bar on the new skills like some BRDs suggest they would have to drop your DPS. This would cause you to fall below MCH and become unwanted. So in order to keep balance they gave you WM to be able to justifiably boost your DPS while taking away some mobility while you have it up.

Then you failed to answer the person's question.



I'm pretty sure that "all" means "all", not "most".



No it isn't. Saying "Bards complained" implies that you're claiming all bards complained. Going on to say "Now y'all" implies that the same people complaining now were also the ones complaining before.

We're allowed to have different opinions from others of our own class, after all.



I didn't answer that question because it doesn't deserve an answer, since "being able to run around in circles mid-fight" isn't the issue I, or many Bards, have with the change.

However, if you're desperate for an answer: Because that's how we could play for 2 years.

All is used in reference to a group of things. In my reference I used it to talk about that particular majority of BRDs ( which is a group by definition since you like being technical) not all BRDs.

Now you have answered my question. Because thats how you have played for two years. Now on to my next question, in how many fights do you need to be able to run around in circles?

No, "Bards" didn't complain about their damage before. Some did. Others didn't. Some don't feel that the change to the playstyle that they enjoyed for their entire career before HW was worth the damage increase.

Contradictory statement.