Bard - they broke my job

[dielray]

I would seriously like to see an answer to this.
I don't play Bard, but I like to play with Bards, and I prefer them to be of the having-fun variety, like all my teammates.

The answer is most likely balance, which is weird because BLM and SMN probably had the most back and forth out of ARR and yet the differences seem to have been doubled down on in HW. Yet, bard pretty much stayed where it was in desirability after the first nerf.

There are bards who like this current stance. Honestly, it's kind of like a veggie burger. Toppings are still the same... but some things are off. Some people like veggie burgers, many get used to them, and some hold a fiery passion over their loss of meat.

If balance was the reason there were other ways about going about it without removing the "physical" from bard's identity. Stacking buff has been suggested, though I think this would likely be too punishing with how much small movements are needed. Something similar to leylines could have done the trick. They also could have done something new entirely. Maybe borrow from their PvP balance and have WM create a ring 9 to 12 yalms from target that increases damage by 10% inside and halves damage outside of it.

But that's neither here nor there. This is what we got, and at this point I think most bards that are unhappy now are just wishing for some QoL changes.