I can't get the hang of it yet on my marks. Taking a break until I find some quiet time to figure things out. Kinda sucks. I'm only a couple of lvls from 50 now. I was really starting to have some fun in the little time I had to play or grind. I chose marks because I could grind quickly. Playing marks now feels like I have concrete shoes and a hangover.
For the time being, I'm going to skill up areas and park him at the gate. I told Thing to give me a yell if Alsius needs an extra bow at the gate.
I can deal with it on my hunter. The extra speed passive and faster attack speed makes strafing work well. It didn't take long to work around the update, but that's back to 45 again on a char that I had kind of lost interest in.
Haven't touched the other four chars since the update. All are waiting at lvl 30, but I really had wanted to get one char to 50 for wz fun before starting on something else.