Curious

[KinnisonArc]

I'm the same as any other bard mains here. At first I thought the song changes are bad but when I tried them out it kinda feel even simplified and relearning is easy. Although I miss skills like Flaming Arrow, Quelling Strike and the old Swiftsong. (Peloton is too clunky to use right now)

[AlexSag]

I've mainly been doing fates on my PLD and I love it! With total eclipse I can actually do damage to groups of enemies at the same time! Also, my sprint animation is awesome. Screw mounts, I just sprint everywhere now, it takes twice as long but it's epic!

[SaitoHikari]

Going from HW Bard to SB Bard has been quite the experience so far. I went from massive burst damage potential to something far more consistent. HW Bard required thinking tactically and planning everything around 90 second burst windows, and I figured out how to cheese a lot of encounters just with pure raw AoE damage and Rain of Death resets.

SB Bard on the other hand... It requires a different kind of tactical thinking, planning out your song order and figuring out your dance steps over the next minute. I've already figured out how to cheese even harder with SB Bard (as an example, we were pretty much made to do the honeycomb skip in Saint Mocianne's Arboretum, just throw Windbite on everything as the party rushes to the second honeycomb, use Minuet, and enjoy constant fully powered Pitch Perfects to burn it down).

Overall, I'm very happy. Initially I was worried that I was going to end up losing a lot of damage, but it looks like the inclusion of Direct Hit more than made up for it anyway.

[Cluebilly]

I'm playing SCH and while I've chosen to get it to 70, I'm only level 61 and the changes are just mind-boggling. SCH is in an awful state. As many have said the term 'gutted' is an accurate summation and I pray that they do some tweaking to it over the course of 4.0, because it's just terrible now.

[AlexSag]

I've mainly been doing fates on my PLD and I love it! With total eclipse I can actually do damage to groups of enemies at the same time! Also, my sprint animation is awesome. Screw mounts, I just sprint everywhere now, it takes twice as long but it's epic!

[Vokisa]

I'm finding Scholar pretty boring now. :/ Not too happy with it. It's like, they didn't make many changes. Just took away our Virus, and some AOE/DPS abilities. Feels pretty crappy now.

[Spirlia]

I love scholar and am still loyal enough to take it to 70, but it is SO. BORING. right now. It's like they threw us in a corner and said, "Now heal." "But SE, I don't NEED to heal right now. Nothing's happening!" "2bad. Heal." and took away any useful dps we had.

Between that and the god awful mp management, I hope it gets better at 70. But I'm not hopeful.

[SendohJin]

Although I miss skills like Flaming Arrow, Quelling Strike and the old Swiftsong. (Peloton is too clunky to use right now)

Don't need Quelling, TP and MP refresh both lower Enmity at no cost.

[FunkYeahDragons]

Not a fan of the gauge for AST. It's pretty big if I want to be able to see my RR, and it's hard to find a good spot for it. Healing/DPS feels a little clunky now that I have one instant-cast dot and one casted DPS spell, but I'm not 70 on it yet - could be smooth. I love having role actions (Protect, refresh, Swiftcast, etc) all available when synced during leveling roulettes whereas they used to get locked out as cross-class actions.

[Mysteltain]

Playing WAR on my alt feels largely the same, just without needing to weave any oGCDs in. The buff swap between Maim and Storm's Eye just makes sense (placing the damage buff at one end of a branching combo), and now that their Wrath abilities are context sensitive I have 3 more spots on my hotbar for other abilities. The Berserk damage nerf is fine, but I do feel like losing the Pacify debuff makes it feel...toothless, I guess. Don't get me wrong, I am glad that I'm not locked out of two GCDs after Berserk, but thematically it feels off.

I do miss Mercy Stroke and Fracture, if only because the latter felt good when it was landed at the end of a full Berserk rotation. And Bloodbath. Oh, Bloodbath! You DPS better take good care of it! T_T