On a scale of 1 - 10, how disappointed are you so far with Stormblood news?

[Jetstream_Fox]

While I know what that person said is ridiculous, it literally was just adding a cast bar. The only clunky abilities are Repelling Shot and following up with a GCD skill, and the fact that you cannot save RoB recast triggers. New 3.0 skillls conflict with older skills a BRD has? That's an overstatement. Really not seeing how it conflicts... are you saying that literally just the cast bar has screwed up the playstyle of BRD? That's not right. Literally the only two issues are RoB recast triggers and using a GCD skill after Repelling Shot.

It's just not RoB, again Wide Volley is nearly useless extremely high tp 160 for 110 pot, verse Quick Nock 140 tp for the same pot. While RoD now shares a recast with Bloodletter, because of the change to RoB this didn't happen until 3.0. So right off the bat one skill was made pointless, and two skills were made more clunky than previously. Not to mention barrage was reworked to be built around Empyreal Arrow, and again restructured by WM due to not allowing auto attacks. While Sidewinder the most potent damage skill we have, can be used outside of WM.

So no it wasn't they just added a cast bar, they removed auto attacks, reworked skills to work similar to MCH in hopes of making the classes play parallel, there is a reason why many BRDS in raids stance dance, you literally gain more dps by having WM on and off throughout the whole fight.

Again imagine having all weaponskills replaced by cast bars and all auto attacks removed, imagine PLDS having to cast flash, or WAR having to cast Overpower, or a DRG having to cast jump. Having a cast bar on your class does a lot more then you actually think.