Quote Originally Posted by StarryVera View Post
Except buttons don't = uniqueness, Evolved BRD is quite literally copy pasted Endwalker SMN. The entire job is revolving around collecting your 3 candies, then using a big attack. This is the type of job design they want to force us into for every job, first with SMN, then with MNK, now with everything. They are removing all uniqueness from jobs and taking anything unique they have about them away, where are BRD's DOTs and procs? BRD was already one of the more unique jobs the game had because of the songs not being directly aligned with the 2 mins, along with procs determining how you played your filler, it wasn't hard by any means, and yet they've gone and lobotomized that.
With current bard you still collect your three sour gummies and eat them to do a party buff, effectively it's the same but with the 2min change they swapped out the buff with attacks. At the end of the day it boils down to which looks more "fun" and to me that's new Bard, sure I also like current SMN which apparently isn't popular here but I've been an on again off again SMN main since 2.0 launch (Archer/Lancer main on my original 1.0 account if that means anything too)