The Wanderer's Minuet and class-design frustrations

[ChloeGrace]

We'll have a generic DoT based Archer with very limited utility.

^ You forgot to add the gimped damage as a trade off for all that "utility".

Welcome to the 3.0 launch! IIRC there was a bard rage megathread of several hundred pages calling for an end to WM, and that was only the english forum. The JP forum exploded.

It still didn't happen. WM is still here. Yoshi plays BLM. He hates bard. He has publicly stated that it was a mistake to include the job in the game.
WM has been forced upon us, and Yoshi & the devs stubbornly cling to their brutal mistakes as a way of saving face.


Yeah, it drastically changes the play style. Yes, it's a shock to the system. It feels clunky and disjointed. The execution is bodged together like it was forced (e.g. who decided tying Barrage to non-critical hits, for a job that is entirely based upon crit is pure stupidity). It makes bard a ghetto bow-mage, and inferior to every other DPS.

Yoshi doesn't care, despite the ~12% of players who main bard.

TL;DR WM isn't going anywhere. Suck it up, sunshine.

[HolyTurtle]

It makes bard a ghetto bow-mage, and inferior to every other DPS.

The hyperbole is extraordinary given how well Bard has been performing on the DPS chart of FFlogs.

[Reinha]

The hyperbole is extraordinary given how well Bard has been performing on the DPS chart of FFlogs.

Which dps job is usually doing worse than bard?

[TarynH]

Yoshi doesn't care, despite the ~12% of players who main bard.

TL;DR WM isn't going anywhere. Suck it up, sunshine.

Except that he said "major" changes are coming for bard in 4.0 /shrug Maybe he does care?