Been playing BRD to get a gripe on it and gotta say, changes aren’t terrible

Sidewinder loosing its dot enhancement is utterly stupid as BRD has one too many shallow GCDs as is, the song procs are consistent thru and thru and you can screw your DPS if you don’t pay attention to your dots even more so as the songs continue without it. Not getting procs was a big reminder to keep dots up, no more warning and your DPS will faulter

My one issue is AOE has been screwed up, outside of ballad, it’s very boring. Not as boring as say MCH or Lv50 DRG but it’s underwhelming. The other songs don’t have any aoe capabilities and feels inorganic, and of course 2 stacks is perfectly fine as is 3 is overkill and feels like “MCH has 3 per skill” type of compromise even more so that double procing doesn’t exist so they can remove it entirely and adjust DPS across the board. But now it’s just fatty.

Opinions on 90s Bard with its 3rd “Raging strikes but” skill is pending