Haya! How's everything?
Anyway...

Who had the great idea to place a 2 sec casting in BM? (sarcasm) >.>
Really, why place such a thing? oO

It's already hard to do it without cast time (stun/4K crit hits)
Soo now if we want to run a dgn we got to have a lovely cast speed? :S
It takes me 1.6 secs to cast it (I'm a eva bard) , sooo if you want to level up in dgn you need to change to another class (engi or knight/BD with high eva)

Sooo gimme me your opinion about it too!

A good thing also was that now the quest had a reduction to finish, so they want us to level by quest, instead of dgn? :S

Noflamestroolsoranythingalike >.>
(Just my opinion BTW)

Find a blade dancer to pair up with.

That's a good idea, but isn't nice to rely on others. Y_Y
I mean, a good thing was that you could run a dgn without help!You know , just casting BM and music of life and see your exp grow, now you have to pair up and lose some of that exp.Or go to normal maps. :S
Also a BD that can run a dgn will not want a Bard just to leech off.
Bard would heal he and etc. but he would lose exp too, so a good bd will not want to do it. T_T

Well the blade dancers who are already built to solo probably won't.
Just switch to engineer.