I've permanently solved The Wanderer's Minuet problem...

[SuperZay]

...by not playing the bard anymore.
Thank you SE for ruining one of my favourite jobs. Sure, I can turn it off and play like before but having a significant damage penalty is even less fun.
If I want to cast something I just switch to BLM for the same gameplay style but much more damage.

[Tyrial]

Or you could stop being Chicken Little (The sky is falling!) and actually adjust to the changes that were made to your job.

[Shadowsun]

Or you could stop being Chicken Little (The sky is falling!) and actually adjust to the changes that were made to your job.

Or play Summoner, because its almost as free as the 2.x BRD playstyle.

Seriously, Wanderer's Minuet and the equivalent of MCH are terrible design decisions just to force players to have to do boss mechanics exactly like a BLM.
I don't play BRD much, just leveling it to 60 and barely played it during 2.0 but I can easily understand how people don't want to play bow mage.

Squenix messed up big time and are simply making every class too similar

[Freyyy]

[Rhysati]

No thanks. I have a BLM and when BRD plays just like it but with far less damage, then what's the point in even playing it?

[Hayward]

No thanks. I have a BLM and when BRD plays just like it but with far less damage, then what's the point in even playing it?

Oh, I don't know. Because you supposedly loved the job and weren't interested in being the at the top of some joker's parser.

Hope your ankle's OK from jumping off the 2.0 Bard Bandwagon, though.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Sorry, this kind of thread was the "in" thing to do weeks ago. Now it's trendy to complain about red scrips and crafting. Get with the times!

[Arkann]

I wonder how many pages this board would have if you removed all those clone threads.

[Tyrial]

No thanks. I have a BLM and when BRD plays just like it but with far less damage, then what's the point in even playing it?

Ah, that's right...I forgot. There are no other redeeming qualities about the various jobs to make somebody prefer to play one over the other. I guess SE should just remove all jobs and boil the game down to three roles. We can have one tank class, one healer class and one DPS class.

BRD wasn't designed as a pure DPS class. It's meant to be a support role that is able to deal damage. This is something that the vast majority of all people who played BRD during 2.x failed to understand, though. It was all DPS, no songs and gods help the sorry SOB who did ask for a song because you were either going to get ignored because it lowered their DPS output or get your face chewed off. Just because BRD lost their mobility (which I feel they never should have been able to get away with in the first place) doesn't mean they lost their identity as a job. They still serve a purpose and if people like the OP no longer find it "fun" then there are plenty of other jobs for them to try.

[Lemuria]

Ah, that's right...I forgot. There are no other redeeming qualities about the various jobs to make somebody prefer to play one over the other. I guess SE should just remove all jobs and boil the game down to three roles. We can have one tank class, one healer class and one DPS class.

To be fair, that's pretty much what they're doing already. The jobs are slowly becoming more and more homogenized and losing their own identity in the process. When every job starts playing the same as every other job, there are things that need fixing. Just look at the healer changes during the 3.0 update if you want further evidence.