Quote Originally Posted by Ramura_Sono View Post
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maybe, just maybe bowmage was so despised not because it added constraints to the class but because it was fundamentally tacked on, you know, classes can simply "not flow" so to speak, that however is not inherit to castbars, redmage has and has allways had castbars, it also "feels" complete in what it does, heavensward mch also was mostly disliked for being worse than bard numbers wise, at least until close to the end where the damage had been done, mch simply had a bad image, not however for the cast bars. Long story short , bowmage was clunky as hell, bard simply has never been designed around cast bars and instead of redesigning it when heavensward came out they simply tacked on castbars and said "done"