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Um while most BLM's aren't that angry about it (IMO, It's a change in rotation, though people will judge if it's worth it or not to them.), Bard's received significant nerfs dps wise, regaling them to a support slot that has had it's support function lowered as well. To a class surrounding dots, losing a dot (1/4) is a big deal. So it's not that much of an overreaction. In your tanking land, you paladins were held supreme. Now it's pali/warrior is viable and better. In DPS land, melee dps got buffed damage wise, ranged got debuffed. This results in more relative upheaval. Coupled with the lack of forewarning, and sheer lack of necessity, People are angry.

"Significant Dps Nerfs"

Blood for Blood:
say baseline damage is 100/sec.
With blood for blood
2400 damage while active(20 sec)
6000 while not(60 sec cd)
8400 total
105 damage/sec

Nerfed
2200 while active
6000 while not
8200 total
102.5 damage/sec

Blood for Blood nerf is about a 3% nerf, and I imagine internal release is less. This also assumes that abilites go on cd as soon as they get used, not after duration, of which I have no clue about. For some reason I never actually checked if this is the case or not. They said they were going to nerf brd dmg, and they did slightly, without changing the class. I honestly thought they were going to add a cast bar to one of the abilites, but all they did was very slightly nerf damage.