What do you consider a long CD? It's currently 45s. I'm asking for 15s / 20s. If you don't like long CDs, how is making it shorter bad?

Meanwhile, the job launched with DoT juggling and still ultimately had said job-juggling, just with it reduced from converting at least 29% of uptime to taking just 5.5%. It's not as if asking for shorter timers to intervene between filler spam would be some uncalled for intrusion into Bard's core design.

What would be a drastic change would be to replace the DoTs with another manager of time-gating those alternative actions, but even that I would be okay with if it thereby increased the frequency of actual apparent decisions to be made and reduced the monotony of Bard's RABS spam.

(Lastly, though, since when did DoTs, especially short ones, require any more screen-staring against a single target than did one's combo or the likes of Disciplined Fist or Astral Fire? Outside of boss jumps or getting stunned, it's a fixed number of GCDs.) Before level 56, you use Full Thrust every 6 GCDs. After level 58, you use it every 8. A DoT lasting 6 GCDs and a DoT lasting 8 GCDs give exactly the same impact on ST platform and are no harder to pace in themselves even without looking at the UI.)