I'm disgusted with the bard nerf.

[caspergrey]

Mage's ballad, silence and foe requiem. That's it. That's what we boil down into now.

Before we discuss the nerf, lets look at the problem. Prior to 2.1 melee DPS were having harder times finding BC groups. Groups wanted to take in 2 bards = less spots for other dps.

The solution should then be, make it desirable to have a brd, but less optimal to stack 2. Partly addressed with buffing melee dps. They also moved the dmg debuff from bard to war, cause we know no one wanted to take a war into endgame. This now makes pld/war desirable as a 2 tank setup.

So the question is, do these changes to bard make bard undesirable for endgame? Cause at the end of the day, that's what matters.

I would argue that Mage's ballad, silence and foe requiem, were really the main reasons people were taking bard into BC in the first place. When you say, that's all a bard has, I would argue that that's still pretty awesome, and will continue to be sought after.