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

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

SE, it's time to decide, and 4.0 is a perfect catalyst for the change:

If you want BRD/MCH (or should I say Dex based jobs overall, considering the trend?) to be limited as a DPS for the sake of party support, then it's time to break the Trinity, and fully, officially create and designate Support as a party role.

Please consider this seriously.

[Moomba33]

I'd love for SE to ditch the cast bars but I doubt it's going to happen.
I hope they at least redesign bard from the ground up so we aren't left with an awkward shift in gameplay in the 50s that works against Bloodletter procs.

[Brill_]

you forgot to mention the healer classes, who are casters as well. 7 out of 13 jobs have cast bars. the other 6 are melees.

yes, more variety would be nice.

They'll probably add cast bars to the remaining classes in 4.0, you know, cast bar when a monk pulls their arm back to punch...

[Nestama]

Cast bar when a monk pulls their arm back to punch...

Finally! The Punch Mage!

[Kosmos992k]

SE, it's time to decide, and 4.0 is a perfect catalyst for the change:

If you want BRD/MCH (or should I say Dex based jobs overall, considering the trend?) to be limited as a DPS for the sake of party support, then it's time to break the Trinity, and fully, officially create and designate Support as a party role.

Please consider this seriously.

That would require so much rebalancing, I doubt they could do it in the time they have, and if they did, we'd lose content.

[Claire_Pendragon]

Personally I'd be ok with the cast bars, if they were just 0.5s instead.
It makes u stop to cast, preventing extreme kite tactics, but separates them from the other casters. (I also hate playing casters, even more so if they have off the GCD abilities, and u cant trigger them while casting)

[Hakuro89]

In a recent interview Yoshi regrets how complex and different some jobs play at lv 60 compared to 50. It lead to a widening gap in skill level among players. He mentions in 4.0 he wants lv 60 skills and above play/ feel like lv 50 did. Bard and MCH play completely different at lv 60 compared to 50. The difference is so large that many people have let the BRD for good.

And I'm one of those people. I loved BRD in 2.0, it was so much fun to play. Then 3.0 happened and SE turned it into a caster. I leveled it up to 60 and then dropped it like it was hot. It wasn't the archer class I loved anymore.

[CUTS3R]

And I'm one of those people. I loved BRD in 2.0, it was so much fun to play. Then 3.0 happened and SE turned it into a caster. I leveled it up to 60 and then dropped it like it was hot. It wasn't the archer class I loved anymore.

Exactly the same here.

[Starkbeaumont]

i love brd the way it is now.

like a mix between blm and smn. i can see why ppl like the lv50 brd, though to me it was the most boring class in the 2.x series and it never made much sense that you could run around like a headless chicken while shooting at the enemy and actually perform good. I think the cast bar just fits a bow user perfectly.
for mch it's different though. while you don't have a cast bar anyway when your shots proc, i would like to see them take away casts bar for a gun. guns have reload times.

[kalasnikov]

Gotta love how people who can't even play bard properly claim job is fine. Filthy heavy shot single target rain of death spammers.