Quote Originally Posted by Creelo View Post
Don't get me wrong, this update was HUGE for Rdm. But no matter how you cut it, Gravity was nerfed and Rdm's Gravity II had a fairly potent -25 Evasion that it can no longer bring to the table. Sure, Distract II definitely helps make for this, but it's still not as much as it ultimately could have been for Rdm. So it's like Rdm was buffed, but not as much as they could have been due to losing Gravity II's -25 Evasion, which would have stacked with Distract. That is the bigger picture, and if you can't see that, then you are blind and without eye drops. Or just stupid.
You really are not in a position to call anyone else stupid.

You are talking about the loss of a bonus which never existed and never was intended. The potency of Distract was determined with the changes to Gravity II in mind. Had they decided not to remove the evasion down effect of gravity, the potency of Distract would have been lowered.

That -25 evasion you can "no longer bring to the table" was replaced by a spell with twice the potency and the ability to be augmented further. You lost nothing in this update except perhaps for the inability to land -Eva on fire based mobs, but even that is balanced by being now being able to apply the buff to ice based mobs.

You now have the ability to lower the monster's evasion by up to 4 times more than you could previously and and the gap between RDM main and /RDM has increased by a similar margin. Yes, this was clearly a nerf.

There is a conversation to be had bout what this change does for RDM in the long run, but there is not one to be he about a non-existent nerf.