Quote Originally Posted by Cetonis View Post
While I'd be a fan of more DWT flex because it's a neat feature of current SMN, I don't see it as a critical problem. Job kits are allowed to have drawbacks, and it's possible that SE intends for this new DWT to be one.
DWT and FBT sharing a cooldown and dictating the tempo of the whole rotation is kind of analogous to if bard's 3 songs were just 1 button that transformed into the next song in turn. In a fight with many breaks like the ultimates, you would be forced to sit through the entire cycle and run the clock on AP, instead of your fight knowledge and planning allowing you to gain more uses of WM and MB. Even your troubadour song selection would come down to chance (not that that will matter since it's gone in 5.0).

I don't think any bard would be defending a change like that if it went through, there would be unanimous sentiment that the job was being simplified. And it is, because as you can see above, flexibility in rotations and resource usage are opportunities to display skill and foresight. It's unfortunate that this is happening to summoner now, when the team seems to be paying more attention to designing the jobs around downtime this expansion.