Bard - they broke my job

[Clarkamite]

Bard used to be king of that, now we are not. MCH are better at it and Swiftcast can be used in a pinch to maintain BLM rotation. If I'm trying to IJ w/ 3s DoTs left and an AoE goes down under me: goodbye to 2 globals, 140 tp (resource management) and potency to boot, on top of the plain old potency lost from missing the global.

I'll give you that last bit but I'll add that it's not like BLM doesn't have that same thing going on. If we run into a situation where we can't or shouldn't be using our swiftcast just to "maintain our rotation" (which is most of the time) we're not just losing a cast. We lost a huge nuke and the potential for several more huge nukes. Movement doesn't just suck for BLM now, it has the potential to be completely killer even when you plan for it.

Just so there's no confusion, I'm not arguing with you to say that Bards have it so easy and should just keep quiet. I leveled my bard just to see what it was like and while, personally, I don't really find it that difficult or "clunky" having played a BLM for the last two years, I do see where the frustration is. I just really find it hard to take anyone seriously who likens the Bards current situation to a BLM. More than once now the Bard in my static has complained about his "3 second casts" and every time he says it I just want to beat his face in. Bard doesn't have 3 second casts. Don't get me wrong when I say this because I absolute love BLM and I don't really have any issue with its current play style, but I would KILL for a 1.5 second cast time. I'd never miss a cast for any reason ever.