besides RDM, which jobs actually need these fancy gauges to function?

[Greeley]

The gauge is super useful as an Astro. It helps me manage my cards better, in a much neater way.

[HakaseNyan]

The new hud gauges are a pretty smart design. It may actually get the facerollers to pay attention to their skills affecting the hud.

[Aomine1992]

I like the SAM kenki, the class is fine but one thing I would change is Seigan, why require merciful eye if it already cost 15 kenki and it's not that strong either lol I feel this was a "we can't think of anymore skills so let's just use Seigan from eleven but make is useless"

[Albinosmurfs]

MCH definitely needs it with heat. Having said that I feel like most people who played MCH pre-stormblood prefer the old MCH and people who didn't like it before find it more fun to play.

We don't need it as MCH except that it gIves a damage buff. They could easily buff the spells and be gone with it. I do like it but we could easily work without if we got a damage buff.

[KylePearlsand]

The bard's song gauge is definitely needed. Especially for Army and wanderer. Helps keep track of how many crit procs we gotten.

[Ephemiel]

Like the above said, Bard definitely needed it since it lets you track the new procs and tells you perfectly how much time left you have.

[Oxmodial]

We don't need it as MCH except that it gIves a damage buff. They could easily buff the spells and be gone with it. I do like it but we could easily work without if we got a damage buff.

That would make MCH the most boring class in the game by far. Currently they took away a lot of extra abilities and our dot which removed depth. If they took away the heat bar too we'd have basically nothing to pay attention to.

[Yurimi]

I absolutely hate the AST one. Before I could just watch my status effects to see what was going on now I have to watch a gauge on top of everything else which as a healer adding more things to distract me on top of HP bars buffs cooldowns the boss's cast bar and what is under my feet is the exact opposite of what I wanted.

[Rhindas]

I have a love/hate feeling for AST as I don't need it to tell me what the effects do, and thus just gets in my way, but I'm sure it helps new ones. SCH, however, is an eyesore. I immediately shrank that and moved it to where the Aetherflow buff icon used to be. Waste of space. I don't have the Faerie gauge yet to decide on that one...

[Cherie]

I can't really say the job bars are needed but they add a visual element so you don't have to stare tiny buff icons as much.