Huge SMN nerf: we're losing Thunder

[Gamemako]

...all the drama is about Rain of Death losing -10% damage mitigation, which was core to our job. If anything they pushed us more into being a DPS job and less into support.

That was likely the point. This was making BRD essential for endgame content, or at least worth vastly more than its slot. I do think RoD could use some tweaking from here, though. 180TP for that? Garuda better have a hell of an evasion buff hiding under those tailfeathers.

We are losing 10-15% of our DPS, with no compensation for that loss.

This "10-15%" thing really needs to die. If 8 potency per second is 15% of your DPS, then you're doing about 120 DPS with a relic+1 and really need to re-evaluate your playing skill. What you've actually lost is more like 5-7% of your DPS.

[AjoraOak]

That was likely the point. This was making BRD essential for endgame content, or at least worth vastly more than its slot. I do think RoD could use some tweaking from here, though. 180TP for that? Garuda better have a hell of an evasion buff hiding under those tailfeathers.

Actually, the reason obviously was to provide extra reason to bring a warrior to a raid since they got the debuff now. It feels more like they just tossed bard something random they knew would never be needed really.