I'm pleased that the Dev's are at least considering are requests and giving us some utility back, but I do hold with what seems to be the consensus, it's not enough. I won't get into the balance and numbers talk, because that honestly is just not one worth going down right now. It's very very clear that the devs believe range and mobility is a huge benefit that can't be quantified in numbers when you look at the changes to the ranged physical category. I don't agree with it but I will let that just sit and watch it play out over the expansion. And besides, numbers are something that can be very easily changed as time rolls on and the community starts to settle in on what jobs they don't want present.

What I will give feedback on though is the changes, because changes in design philosophy of a job is far harder to break, especially when community expectation is different then dev vision. Great work on Apex Arrow sound changes and increasing the range. I still would like to have it be a bit more of a guaranteed oGCD I can rely on and not an RNG timed GCD, but that's a flavor thing. Thank you for bringing back song buffs, but I'm still sensing hesitancy by the devs on putting Bard back into a more support oriented role. The song buff were the least interactive part of our 4.0 support kit and honestly was probably the least wanted support skill to have back save original Tactician. People were far more interested in getting back Foe's, refresh, palisade, or reworking Minne or Paen into much more premier abilities. Passive buffs are certainly nice, and add a little flavor but thats all it is.

Yoshi-P in the interview today said that for BRD to go back to its' Stormblood level of support, it would have to be put down to Dancers level of DPS. Again I'm going to leave alone the talk of actual DPS numbers, but I don't think the devs understand, we Bard mains who have been loving and playing this job for so long and very happy with a hybrid support and DPS identity are 100% ok with this and do not find that to be that big of a negative. Stormblood Bard is one of the gold standards the dev team has made in making an amazingly fun job, right up there with current black mage and 3.0 DRG. We loved Bard that way and want to be that way again. So my feedback to the devs is this. Thank you, may I please have some more?