Quote Originally Posted by Aiselia View Post
If anyone can honestly say they love having casting times added to a class designed around not having casting times and the various objective problems it brought, then I'd have to consider them strange for playing a Bard when they clearly meant to roll BLM or SMN because they didn't have the cast times they love for 2 years and 52 levels.
Why? It could be as simple as liking the "flavour" of using a bow/gun. I like WM/GB, as it gives me the option to switch on the fly, and I don't mind the cast times, but I hated levelling BLM. Yes, they do more dmg, but BLM bored (and still bores) me. I have a rl friend who's a 60BLM and I log on to his character when he's away and needs to cap tomes and playing it just puts me to sleep. But optimizing BRD/MCH and finding out whether a certain situation calls for being in or dropping out of WM/GB is a lot more intersting to me.