Inevitable Job Simplifications?

[tearagion]

MCH was pretty popular on HW, but it's popularity was probably heavily tied for being part of the best (and only) top raid compo back in time : WAR, DRK, AST, SCH, NIN, DRG, BRD, MCH.
It's kinda strange : bow and gun mage were heavily turned down but performances were here so played.

I however wonder how people can think EW BRD to be the worst iteration as it stricly better than ShB one :
- Loss of many bloodletter/rain due to having one charge, so full CD reset hardly happen and double proc were wasted.
- Need to apply DOT on target in case of mutlti target situation.
- Having dot to roll in not better than having a song active.
- Not being buffed by it's own party abilities.
- Being a 80s rotation job which never/poorly align with standard 2/3min party cd, and never with reopener at 6min.

- who cares about BL stacks when it only refunds half the CD now? one step forward, two steps back
- multidotting was fun, as was proccing tons of Repertoire with multidotting, why wouldn't I like it if I was interested in playing a DoT job.
- ???
- who cares, any buff that gets applied to brd is taken out of its potency per second, and we lost the crit synergy on Repertoire that would have made getting our own buff more interesting to begin with.
- aligning being a thoughtful exercise and not handed to you on a silver platter is more interesting (see: all the 2min complaints everywhere), and ShB bard had more flexibility to fit different comps. it also wasn't hard to align anyway

all this and ShB bard was worse than SB bard anyway