BRD: Bard got some pretty hefty changes this time around, while I really miss the dots being more of a focus the changes pushing it more towards song management and other cooldowns is a fine direction to take things. There are a few things that I would tweak though for qol and to improve things. The initial one that kept cropping up is Shadowbite ready should probably be tied to straightshot ready. Shadowbite is only ever used in aoe situations and using barrage with it feels a little off where you have to fish for a proc again given the great change in SB of giving you a refulgent with the CD. The second big thing is that it’s a little disappointing that armys peon managed to outperform mages in terms of DPS now due to the changes, this means that you spend the full time in it and cut mages short which while not the end of the world means that you spend 45 seconds regularly with no interaction with your song which while the speed buff is strong its not as interesting as the other songs to work with. On the subject of songs BRD has the issue of things being extremely punishing on death. With the songs being extended to 45 seconds and their cooldowns growing to match if you get caught by something and die soon after you hit your next song you will have a long time standing around waiting to get your next song to get rolling again. I am not sure if being similar to BLM thundercloud proc in that it lasts through being killed is a good idea due to potential issues of corpses giving buffs or what happens then with other bards and the same song but some way to get back into your rotation to recover would help a lot. And the last thing I would mention is I miss more interactive defensive support on ranged as a category, while troubadour and the other defensives are very strong they are not as interesting or interactive as previous tools like original troubadour (different per song), the resource replenishment previously part of the category, or things like palisade which only blocked one type of damage so you could use it like a tank cooldown for busters but was not always worth using on cooldown as it mainly helps with busters.

DNC:I was impressed by DNC this time around, I did not really enjoy it in the past but the changes to the procs and other tweaks made it fun to level and run. Same with MCH of numbers tweaks will be fine and more interesting utility in the future would be appreciated but otherwise DNC is doing fine