Quote Originally Posted by Rika007 View Post
Yeah it's an odd call. While I don't agree with the idea that Bard has no identity now and am REALLY excited for the other changes, the change on how procs now occur seems like one where they were fixing the job then thought "Lets keep fixing it, even though we don't need too." If anything I felt the only changes to the procs that were needed was to up them to 45 or 50% rate to get some more speed back to the job.

It's gonna all depend on how the job feels now. I really am eager to play it through the MSQ so I can give feedback. Despite the negative aspects of this change it really does feel like the team was very much listening to the post media tour feedback. Songs being able to now be heard, battlevoice affecting us, 3rd blood letter charge, increase to the 3rd coda, heck even the proc rates now on the songs addressing the leveling experience on bard being too slow all in some way address concerns we had in the post media tour. The dev team DID listen, it just looks like they took it one step further with this last change. Need to try it out now. If it works it works, if it doesn't we give that feedback just like we did before.
In the end the only thing they really badly need to do for 6.01 is to revert the MB half-proc thing. Then it will feel more like an rng smooth-over than spending 30-45s in slow motion. And the remaining kit will still be a 2 minute cycle, and still generally improved for the average player.

It would still be a "bad design" in light of Dancer juxtaposition, and in need of some 6.1 work most likely re: what are the DoTs for etc. And players like me who were looking forward to deleted elements of the MT kit will still be sad, and we'll still miss ShB Bard's AoE.

But with full BL resets they could run with this kit with a straight face, at least for a little while.