Bard - they broke my job

[Makeda]

You know, you can just drop WM when you need to move.

If I'm going to be on a bard - I'm always moving. I'm usually moving 95% of the time, standing still only when something locks me in place. I do that when tanking on this character as well. It is how I play and why I chose bard as my DPS alt. Thankfully she's only level 34 - so I can consider a switch out to a melee class.

Bard is much funner and more engaging and thoughtful now than it was in 2.x, in my opinion. The job wasn't killed, it was vastly improved.

Frankly I don't care if the rest of it is more fun. The very point of the Job's existence is gone.

It is now a turret. The option for the moving while playing class is removed with this ability.

This is not about the effectiveness of the class or the complexity of the new rotation. Its about the very feel of why one picks this class: moving around all the time. With that gone, it is now just the same as Thaumaturge from a play POV: a stand there and blast stuff class.

I never understand when people state this. Being very mobile was a feature of BRD,
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It was just an advantage. If that's why you chose BRD to play, and that was the core feature you were so into BRD for, I'd suggest going to SMN or MCH.

Because everything else is just numbers in the background math calculation. The difference between moving and not moving though - that is something you feel when you play.

To my knowledge, it WAS the only ranged class/Job that felt unique. The rest are just differences in shiny icons and special effects on a math parser.

I've yet to reach Heavensword, so was not aware the MCH was the replacement for the removed Bard playstyle. Just googled it and it looks like that will be my solution...