The Wanderer's Minuet and class-design frustrations

[SaitoHikari]

You're looking at this from the wrong perspective, OP. I prefer Minuet too, but most of the people that want it gone don't want it nuked from existence purely because it changes us into a caster-type class, they want it gone because the game literally ambushes you out of nowhere with a total playing style change, it even has contradictory design with some earlier skills/passives (less time to use Bloodletter resets!), and it's a straight copy/paste of a mechanic that another class already had.

If Minuet had been learned earlier, or more earlier level skills gained additional bonuses under Minuet besides Straighter Shot (which is hardly even a bonus), or Machinist didn't simply exist, then the reception to Minuet would be a lot better.

You can like something while still admitting that it is designed poorly.

[Connor]

Except that he said "major" changes are coming for bard in 4.0 /shrug Maybe he does care?

This is true, though I'd be lying if I said I wasn't sceptical. The 'major changes' they made to Astrologian in 3.4 was largely just potency increases slapped on a few abilities; it was a necessary balancing move but it felt very lazily done (not to mention it caused the AST vs WHM arguments I see often). I really hope they put more thought and effort into these 'major changes' for Bard if they do go ahead.

You can like something while still admitting that it is designed poorly.

I agree, and I've made clear several times in the original post that even I don't think Minuet has been implemented well at all. Minuet as a whole probably wouldn't have had any of the backlash it caused if it weren't designed to be so counter to the rest of the job's skillset.