Quote Originally Posted by Dyvid View Post
We tried Cast timers in HW 3.XX and people hated it.

https://youtu.be/kbvv0rgrT4k?si=5gyEtyVk82rxg-B-&t=86

The reality is the job system as a whole needs a redesign for 2026
I mean, not saying the Wanderer’s Minuet cast times did work, but I’m pretty sure there’s a literal universe between them and what people are actually for lol.

Heavensward literally turned every existing Bard weaponskill into full casts lazily overlaid over an rng-contingent, proc heavy skill set that already featured cast times on the songs themselves. I think they made them 1.5s at some point during the expansion, but even then you could get like 1 proc off between casts while Bloodletter sat there resetting during your casts, laughing at you because charges didn’t exist back then.

What people are asking for is the PvP style 1.5s walking-casts, which were designed specifically the PvP toolkit in mind (which is probably the only reason it actually works). I think when people are asking for ‘cast times’, they’re referring to these specific ones and for the necessary adjustments around them to be made as necessary. Nobody wants to go back to Heavensward Bard, not even me (I’d take the song cast times back though lol)

I mean, I think they’d be kinda cool in PvE. But would they actually work? All signs point to a hard no lol