In 4.0 can we please get rid of caster bars on physical ranged jobs?!

[Zojha]

My concern with this is that means all bards ever only play as bards.

No, it does not - it means that unlike the person I quoted suggested, there IS no job currently in the game that better suits the playstyle of the people who preferred the old bard to move on to. We have no ranged jobs, neither DPS nor otherwise, without cast times in the game right now. Zero, nada. It's on the same level as telling poor people to just eat cake if they lack bread, purely condescending.

That's why alt jobs aren't a solution. They're not even a tangent. That's like telling a person who prefers ranged classes to just pick a different class when theirs and every other class in the game gets turned into a melee. There are no options for that playstyle and therefore, such a suggestion is ignorant at best and malicious glee at worst.

[Khalithar]

No, it does not - it means that unlike the person I quoted suggested, there IS no job currently in the game that better suits the playstyle of the people who preferred the old bard to move on to. We have no ranged jobs, neither DPS nor otherwise, without cast times in the game right now. Zero, nada. It's on the same level as telling poor people to just eat cake if they lack bread, purely condescending.

That's why alt jobs aren't a solution. They're not even a tangent. That's like telling a person who prefers ranged classes to just pick a different class when theirs and every other class in the game gets turned into a melee. There are no options for that playstyle and therefore, such a suggestion is ignorant at best and malicious glee at worst.

People will complain about it until the day it gets removed..

They took a class that specialized in mobility, and forced it to stand still. If people wanted to stand still, they have BLM, and SMN. You cant take a class that people have picked, and have played for fifty levels, and change up the formula on them so drastically. It's not even the fact that people dont want to adapt, its that people picked a class and put large amounts of time into it, and suddenly its something entirely different that they didn't choose, and may not even like.

Quoting these because they're absolutely true. I've leveled every combat class to 60 and I have to say, Brd/Mch were significantly less fun when I got the cast times. I will say however, I think Gauss Barrel works better than Minuet does. I can get past GB on Mch because not ALL of it's attacks have the cast bar and it's not as hampered, Mch "feels" like it was designed from the ground up with GB in mind, Minuet feels really tacked on.