Bard is utterly destroyed

[Jetstream_Fox]

Cast timers wouldn't be a issue if I wasn't a class that focuses on physical attacks. Like I stated the Bards selling point was mobility and regenerating the party. The cast timers are a small aspect of the class being destroyed, there is also the removal of a core trait and the modification to our aoes that have hindered the class. The cast timers are just plain ridiculous to have on this class when the damage isn't there to justify it. This would be like if they threw a cast timer on Flash or Transpose.

[Crazypluto]

yeah I hate it.

[SpecialKK]

Cast timers wouldn't be a issue if I wasn't a class that focuses on physical attacks. Like I stated the Bards selling point was mobility and regenerating the party. The cast timers are a small aspect of the class being destroyed, there is also the removal of a core trait and the modification to our aoes that have hindered the class. The cast timers are just plain ridiculous to have on this class when the damage isn't there to justify it. This would be like if they threw a cast timer on Flash or Transpose.

I think we need to see what the higher level dungeons will look like, as it seems that SE really made some...uhm...interesting choices with the changes to some of the classes. I don't play BRD, but you guys can attest to those changes. But looking at other jobs...

Appeal to NIN is lack of positional skills to compensate for all the ninjutsu they are using. So what do they get? Positional skills, which was a big reason why people switched to it in the first place.

DRG was the king of positionals and penalties. Last big update to DRG removed those penalties (or at least lessened them). So what do we get? A random 50/50 proc on our 4th-combo finisher...which, guess what...demands positionals. And a pretty stiff one at that should you miss it (IIRC it drops from a 260 potency to like, 100 or something low).

[JadeS]

Just make EA and IJ not require WM. Would just love bard after that.