Condensing Bard with Morphing Buttons

[Shurrikhan]

Um… Iron Jaws was VERY important in Stormblood. IJ optimization was very important for snapshotting critical hit buffs and manipulating your Repertoire… IJ optimization basically died in ShB, but it is still relevant for snapshotting during buff windows for buffed DoTs. Just not nearly as critical to BRD optimization as it was in SB.

And it wouldn't have been worth snapshotting DoTs if it took 2 GCDs to do so?

I'm asking what, in terms of gameplay, it added to Bard after DoT durations were so greatly increased (and relative potency per tick value over DoT-less GCDs decreased in kind)?

Refulgent Arrow was certainly important, too. That didn't make it add anything, gameplay-wise, over HW Straight Shot (and Barrage being usable on the then-weaponskill Empyreal Arrow), though.

Capacity alone doesn't make for a good addition to a kit, especially if it directly results in more spam when that spam was already overly prevalent, as IJ has done since StB.