Quote Originally Posted by Linadae View Post
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.
It's not so much the cast time removal for me. I'm fine with that. It's that on MCH, I can properly play with reactive procs. If I ever overshoot a slug shot proc with anotehr split shot, I can be assured in saying that it's completely my fault because I didn't catch it in time.

I can't say that when it comes to bard with straighter shot, because the proc itself doesn't even show up or register as a buff until a split second after your weapon skill ends. If you tried to do SS after heavy shot and it gave a proc, you'd still end up hard casting SS without the 100% crit. Then you have bloodletter resets that needs to be used up or it's wasted dps if you overlap the resets (esp if you're multidotting, which is very well possible in nearly all of the alexander encounters)