There are a lot of great abilities they showed off for Bard, and it looks like cast times have gone the way of the dinosaur. It's going to be weird for a bit again since Bards will have to completely relearn how they play (again), but we'll have our instant casts back.

Hopefully I didn't do what I did last time and failed to notice some other major detail like it being an ability that makes everything an instant cast for 30 seconds...