Quote Originally Posted by Moomba33 View Post
But WM in particular feels like a lazy paste job to me. Especially with how terrible the animations were when it was introduced, how it clashes with the Bloodletter proc system, and how badly it slowed down the job in general by causing double weaving to clip your next GCD.
As far as I'm concerned with Heavensward they didn't build on the Bard playstyle so much as they tried to make it like MCH.
I do feel like it was a paste job.. notice in the official benchmark trailer here at 7:02, you see the bard running behind the scholar and then letting off an Emphiral Arrow without the WM build-up. https://youtu.be/RGOIF_7vuLw?t=7m1s Somewhere along the dev process, and pretty late, they decided that for "balancing reasons" that bard needed to be a stick in the mud caster. I think it was as said earlier, that is was because they aren't able to think of good ways to deal with a mobile DPS, i.e. lazy way out.