Quote Originally Posted by Dyvid View Post
The point I'm trying to stress is patience and wait until the 29 for first hand experience and then launch so we can actually see how it pans out.
...Why should we wait to comment on things we already know in entirety? Sure, we don't know how the job will play on the whole, but we do absolutely know what, for example, having no effect between Crit-bonus windows and cpm will have. We know exactly what effect, say, Mage's Ballad no longer resetting Bloodletter would have on the feel of that song. What aspects we do know we should feel free to comment on in the scope we're aware of them. We've already seen time and time again what "waiting for the full gameplay" does for our prospects for timely fixes or improvements, how little the skill mechanics actually change in the interim, and the delays that waiting faces unless a limelight job of a given patch.

Well since you main BRD and we are talking about making things simpler, was extending the DoTs in 4.0 good or bad in you opinion? While I'm still leveling BRD, I notice the extension is helpful because it lets me focus more on keeping straight shot buff up, songs up, and focus on my shot weaving. Now you say Repertoire is confirmed as a flat rate, okay but a good BRD is still going to need to make sure your DoTs are up, you just won't be penalized as heavy if you miss it during on rotation. Now if they remove DoTs all together that would simplifying the job. Trust me, I don't agree with everything SE has said like removing Crit+ party buff from songs and will be the first one at launch asking for them to add another buff to replace it.
Can't speak for Hyo, but I personally disliked the extended DoTs. It made me feel like I was just spamming Heavy Shot all day, and would have preferred a higher proc rate from HS into RA and more frequent IJ casts necessary.

That said, I wouldn't mind, for instance, one song allowing for quicker individual applications of skills (DoTs, in the case of cleave-AoE), another being able to AoE-apply a given DoT, and yet another being able to AoE-refresh them. That covers the same multi-DoT AoE value as the elongated DoTs would have, but with more control and without making single-target combat feel so spammy.