T5 Significantly harder to heal this patch?

I know Virus was changed, but even beyond that, Death Sentence seems so much harder to deal with. I guess I'm not adding enough to info to generate a discussion (besides our new MT not having 34 CNJ to cast Stoneskin on himself), but as a WHM, unless our entire group is slumping, things just feel like they hit SO much harder.

Anyone else experiencing this? I feel like I did something wrong, but everything just seems to hurt so much more.

No Bard help on Death Sentence anymore either. Since Rain of Death now reduces dodge chance...

Hmm, we've done T1 to T4 yesterday and the tank went down on DN a few times with high crits. He went from stable to dead despite having Virus up (new DN with new Virus so it couldn't have been immunity).
T4 in general saw our tanks spiking a bit more but maybe it was just bad luck and I imagined it.

edit: oh yeah, the bard changes!

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Originally Posted by Kyomih

Hmm, we've done T1 to T4 yesterday and the tank went down on DN a few times with high crits. He went from stable to dead despite having Virus up (new DN with new Virus so it couldn't have been immunity).
T4 in general saw our tanks spiking a bit more but maybe it was just bad luck and I imagined it.

edit: oh yeah, the bard changes!

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Burst cut by a third, damage-reduction-support cut completely, some abilities potency cut slightly. Wonderful and necessary changes, no? ;-(

Do you have any Warriors to take the Bard's reduction job via Storm's Path at least?

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Originally Posted by Shurrikhan

Burst cut by a third, damage-reduction-support cut completely, some abilities potency cut slightly. Wonderful and necessary changes, no? ;-(

Do you have any Warriors to take the Bard's reduction job via Storm's Path at least?

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Right, I forgot about all of this. Our Warrior couldn't make it yesterday so we had two Palis which made us miss the Warrior 10% reduction. All makes sense now.

Hope some dps class understand why most of BRD not happy with RoD nerfed.
It is not about personal benefit but truly group benefit.

Seemed about the same to me. My mana management sure as hell changed though. I was able to get through the fight before without ever needing ballad, now I need it at a specific point to make sure I don't run dry.

Like other have said yeah the brd change is to blame for the most part ><

Can't say Twintania herself feels any different for my group (PLD WAR WHM SCH MNK BLM BRD BRD). If anything snakes are the hardest part to heal through since we previously had 2 Viruses to put on big snake before Twintania returns. Our first kill was ~3 days before patch, our 2nd kill was ~3 days after.

It's making a big difference if you don't have a Warrior now.
Also, holy crap the LB penalty for double classes is painful.