Quote Originally Posted by DragonHunterG View Post
never played bard too much, didn't like the class. picked up machinist class finally a few days ago to give a try and loved it. it must have been what bards were used to. fast, mobile, lots of fun. then i get gauss barrel at 52 and it literally changes the entire way you play. the cast times are b.s. and really detract from the spirit of the job. i can see now why bard players are up in arms over this. it's just not fun to sit there and wait for an extra 2 seconds for every weapon skill, when they build up the job to play in certain way up to the point, then pull the rug out from under you. sucks because the machinist job is damn cool concept too. not to mention the cast time animation is just plain weird.
Yes but at least by 60 MCHs have their full toolkit that revolves around speeding up or even removing the cast timers that GB forces on them. Bards don't get this luxury...EVER. Hence why Bard is clunky and unfun. The class was not build with WM in mind. It was tacked on so it would be just the same as mch so that people wouldn't have to choose between playing a ranged dps with casttimers or playing one without. In truth, they clearly didn't trust that people would play mch unless they tacked cast timers on to bard as well.