Wanderer’s Minuet, Gauss Barrel and Positive Gameplay Additions

[Alahra]

first they'd preview MCH with this sort of addition, and ultimately it seemed shoehorned to BRD when they showed a gameplay video of it (and ironically, they didn't show the cast times on MCH).

My best guess is that they planned for MCH to have cast times at least relatively early on (MCH definitely feels like they spent more time designing it *around* Gauss Barrel) but came to the conclusion that no one would play MCH if it had cast times and BRD didn't, so they had to add the cast times to BRD to even them out. For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure they're right, too: mobility is a huge asset both in terms of mechanics and just in "fun" factor, so if the two had the same damage capability (and they sort of need to) but one had the casting drawback, it would be a dead class. Ultimately I don't think adding the cast times to either class was the best decision--at least not with the amount of time they actually put into designing them. The class design for both of them is very much in conflict with itself from a variety of angles now--which is actually rather curious as the class design in ARR was really elegant in general.

I don't have a problem with the homogenization issue personally (I think there's enough difference in the way their support works and their "combo" systems, but that's gonna be somewhat subjective).

Thanks for the breakdown of Enochian, by the way. I only had a vague idea of how it worked and that explanation was actually quite helpful. It definitely seems like it was put together better than the BRD and MCH changes.