Rphys: why slow walk casts (ala pvp) aren't a solution

[Connor]

I'm personally against cast times on Bard's weaponskills. Been there done that in Heavensward, and not having it differentiates the rDPS role from the magic DPS one in gameplay. Plus, if we add cast times, then you'd be pushing out the players that enjoy the ranged gameplay without them (and there's nowhere else to go then.)

I’d imagine theoretically if they did do ‘ranged casts’ they’d apply a similar ‘sliding scale’ casters have. As in, there’d be one with essentially no cast times (Summoner), one with some but more flexibility (Red Mage, Pictomancer(?)), and one that’s mostly all casts (Black Mage).

Obviously, the main issue with that is that people would just complain no matter which ‘section’ they fell into. Either they’d fall onto the ‘no cast’ extreme and up with the worst dps, or they’d end up on the heavy cast time extreme and people would just fight over who has to be the casting one, or complain ‘Why does [my job] have to be the casting one?! Jail Yoshi-P!’