Your biggest fears for 4.0

[Xiao_]

Second? Class changes still keep cast-times on bard.

cast times on bard made it better
bye

[KitingGenbu]

cast times on bard made it better
bye

The vocal minority has spoken I suppose.

[Grimgrum]

If the cross-class reevaluation turns out to be just hot air instead of any substantial changes. FF as a whole is usually pretty great with giving player agency over skill set customization, but as far as XIV goes, the "deepest" decision making we get to make is whether we want Awareness or Second Wind. I understand that it's for the sake of balance, but damn.

Hoping 4.0 brings out the true potential of what cross-classing can do, which on paper has a lot going for it as long as there's a careful eye on balance. Greater versatility and a smidgen of self-sufficiency for all classes can be one of the better results that comes of a positive change, but at least the worst that can happen is that we lose out on what little freedom we have now (Protect/Stoneskin for PLD for example? Too early to say).

[Iromi]

The vocal minority has spoken I suppose.

true, I quit bard as my secondary job because of the ridiculous cast time, if I am forced to have a cast time I might as well do some serious damage as blm lol

I REALLY hope they get rid of it in the expansion.

And my biggest fear is the same skin, different # / no open world content.

[KitingGenbu]

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Exactly. Someone in a thread a while ago made a suggestion on how WM could've worked without suddenly altering the way the class plays in its last 4-5 levels of it. Pretty much, you get the damage bonus and a reduction of tp cost (since that's what the stance really does, is lowers how much tp you burn) when you stand still after a couple of seconds and lose it when you move. The main reason why brd was competitive dps in 2.0 was because it have almost 0 disconnects, which allowed it to maintain a steady stream of damage. Transforming it to a pure caster kills that. Heck, they could've even made it caster and just gave us the ability to move like WoW used to do with their hunters, which was why hunter was always the top 10 dps in raids (beast mastery at least).

[vp_cmc]

cast times on bard made it better
bye

cast times on bard made it worse
bye

[Xiao_]

cast times on bard made it worse
bye

forgive me for not taking the opinions of crafter mains all that seriously when it comes to battle classes...

[Katra]

cast times on bard made it worse
bye

I wholeheartedly agree. With the upcoming changes, I'm hoping for either the removal of or a complete reworking of WM. It felt like it was forced on Bard to make it play more like Machinist with GB, and it really never fit. Here is hoping that they take this opportunity to fix Bard.

My biggest fear is that they introduce Beastmaster or another pet class/job into XIV and try to make it play like XIV's Summoner. I have no specific issue against SMN outside of the egi design, but I hope the next pet job plays differently.