I'm disgusted with the bard nerf.

[Axidrain]

Good bards will still be on par with good black mages.
Bad bards will now suck as bad black mages.

Before 2.1 (well, now) good bards could solo titan's heart (unlike any other dps class, even melee).

Bard deserved a nerf, deal with it. It's on par with the other ranged classes now.

To be honest as a tank i didn't like RoD change. It was a pretty useful debuff.
Also 200TP for accuracy down is just useless.

on par with blm? lol. u have no idea. let me break it down for u. currently with similarly geared bard and blms, blms will out damage bards by about 30-50k. The damage hierarchy goes like this SMN>BLM=MNK>BRD>DRG. its not much of a nerf but bards didnt need this nerf to begin with.

[OmegaFlare]

They just made turn 4 and 5 a lot harder by nerfing rain of death. Thanks for all the cry to nerf bard people... you reap what you sow.

The nerf RoD and the change to virus really affect everyone. It actually makes things a lot harder. Thing is I'm not sure there's an alternative to RoD and virus. Tanks are gonna drop more often in T5 without those supporting abilities.

[NeoAmon]

on par with blm? lol. u have no idea. let me break it down for u. currently with similarly geared bard and blms, blms will out damage bards by about 30-50k. The damage hierarchy goes like this SMN>BLM=MNK>BRD>DRG. its not much of a nerf but bards didnt need this nerf to begin with.

MNK > SMN = BLM > BRD = DRG as of 2.1

[Zeronic]

I totally agree with the cross class skills. Blood for Blood was basically a free raging strikes since we as a moving ranged class basically don't get hit a lot. Internal release has a short cooldown and that combined with straight shot and HQ deviled eggs made for a real Bloodletter barrage. Totally understandable. Shadowbind and Hawk's eye, I don't care much about. But the Rain of Death nerf is just plain stupid. Remember that this is a lvl 45 skill. It is used BEFORE coil as well. And it was really usefull. Can't remember the times it saved a garuda run by using it on both adds. This was a nice support ability that is now lost since we will not use it till... some time very far away for most players?

[Atreides]

So they just shiftet the RoD effect to a Warrior skill, I think it would be too OP if both classes could stack those but I agree that the nerf to RoD was too harsh and -10% evasion IS useless...

[Vmage]

the Rain of Death nerf happened because warrior's get the 10% debuff on Storm's Path now

they just moved the effect to a different class :s

[Majidah]

I totally agree with the cross class skills. Blood for Blood was basically a free raging strikes since we as a moving ranged class basically don't get hit a lot. Internal release has a short cooldown and that combined with straight shot and HQ deviled eggs made for a real Bloodletter barrage. Totally understandable. Shadowbind and Hawk's eye, I don't care much about. But the Rain of Death nerf is just plain stupid. Remember that this is a lvl 45 skill. It is used BEFORE coil as well. And it was really usefull. Can't remember the times it saved a garuda run by using it on both adds. This was a nice support ability that is now lost since we will not use it till... some time very far away for most players?

^ THIS.

100% this.

[Nexxus]

Rain of Death now gives -10% enemy eva instead of -10% enemy attack (with 100% acc isn't that useless?)

As a MNK i see this change most welcome, as i have to keep some piece with Acc+ to be capped and lose some dps~. It's still a small boost, but... if it's affect for more than one member, it can become a powerfull buff. Now Bardes will have to use it everytime it's fade off.

To bad it's change to enemy attack but sometime, attack is the best defense.

[Tagihi]

Meh.. people worry too much...

[Axidrain]

MNK > SMN = BLM > BRD = DRG as of 2.1

nope smn are on top for dps