The Failure of the ranged Physical balancing

[Akiudo]

i know people hated Bow-Casting

honestly everyone i know or talked to about this (and yea i know, thats anecdotal) including myself did not hate "bow casting" per se, but more the fact that it just didn't work with bards toolkit. Look at the casters, they are designed around casting, thats why they have tools to mitigate the need to cast and an amount of ogcd skills that can be reasonably worked with. in bards case however they simply slapped on cast bars to a class never designed with cast bars in mind, mch by comparison actually flowed quite well. that however is the other side of the coin, you cant just slap cast bars on the 3 physical ranged, for it to work you would need to redesign the classes in a way that works with cast bars, something heavensward bard simply did not do.

if one liked heavensward mch or not is a completly different discussion, but if you played it you could see how its toolkit was actually designed with gauß barrel in mind, when you played bard all you could see was how some developer decided that "mch has cast bars, bard needs them too." and then just hastily decided to copy gauß barrel without thinking for 5 seconds what makes gauß barrel or the mch toolkit in general actually work.

i for one would love a bard actually designed around castbars, if only to put this discussion to rest, but the key point is designed around it not just hastily slapped on, bards toolkit in heavensward simply was not working. it may have been effective, but it was clunkier than any class currently in the game, and i mean WAY worse.


edit: just food for thought, but why does everyone talk about bowmage, not "gunmage" or whatever you would have wanted to call mch ? fact of the matter is, heavensward mch was also disliked, but that was mostly because it started way to weak compared to bard, literally no one cried about the cast bars on mch, thats the difference between a class designed around something and one that isn't