7.0 DNC is awful compared to EW

[Connor]

Yeah you're right. This was original made for memes, but it can still serve as a good example of the issue that persisted since EW.

The issue became more egregious because SE thinks it's cool to gate key abilities behind "XYZ ready" buff

now we have this

Absolutely; the ability gating feels like they’ve been very lazy with implementation as well. As in, they couldn’t be bothered, ran out of ideas, etc, for how to fit the new skills into job rotations, so they just slapped them all behind a 120s cool-down ability so they don’t have to actually consider how best to make the ability fit into the skill set

At least with BRD they only got 2 new GCD's.

Yeah, for Bard while it gets tight the fact Resonant and Encore are GCDs does make it much easier to fit them in than it is for Dancer since you’ve got at least some freedom to move them around. Dancer is next on my list to level after White Mage, so I’ll get to experience the DNC 120-sec buff rotation hell myself soon enough lol.