I'm disgusted with the bard nerf.

[Lance_Uppercut]

blood for blood and internal release nerf effects other classes as well.

Affect vs Effect

[Aegis]

Rain of Death = Rain of Fail.
Bard just got boned.
Guess I won't be using it much anymore...
Thankfully it is just an alt and I didn't spend any myth on it yet. lol

This isn't a heavy nerf at all. I use my BRD for turns 1 and 2 and I doubt I will be asked to come as anything else. It's a damage reduction in cross-classed abilities and the loss of one debuff.

They could have easily swung the nerf-bat harder. They could have made Blunt Arrow have only a chance of silence or even given it another debuff altogether.

[Yoruichi4478]

This isn't a heavy nerf at all. I use my BRD for turns 1 and 2 and I doubt I will be asked to come as anything else. It's a damage reduction in cross-classed abilities and the loss of one debuff.

They could have easily swung the nerf-bat harder. They could have made Blunt Arrow have only a chance of silence or even given it another debuff altogether.

Don't give them any ideas please.

[Xellos2099]

Since Yoshi commented on the housing issue, did he touch on this subject today monring during the youtube patch note?

[Kimzark]

Bard Tears....

[Nikoshae]

As a Bard I find the nerfs ... well, expected. I'll deal. Bards are one of the best if not the best at sustained DPS, and are also one of the burstiest as well due to lucky Bloodletter procs. I continue to feel chagrin as Bards are continuously relegated to 'DPS with a few support skills' rather than the 'Support that does really good DPS' class I envisioned them to be upon initial interest in FFXIV, especially after the debuff from Rain of Death was changed.

I'm hoping they introduce a few new songs for Bards over time, and I would definitely love a quality of life change in the party screen to see everyone's TP aside from their mana. I never know when folks are low on TP, and I'm not about to Army's Paeon at some random person's behest if I cannot see they truly need it.

[Lurkios]

The Bard nerf, to put it kindly, was poorly thought out. I'd guess part of the problem is that they haven't decided what exactly a Bard is. The call us support, though we have very little in the way of "support" abilities and nearly all of them are cross-class, not job. Then the nerf comes and we lose a massive support ability, and a bit of dps, while gaining nothing of value.

I mean, the content is cool, but SE... ya'all wanna load up Matlab and take a look at what you're doing before you go throwing random numbers around? You already know your random generator is busted, stop relying on it.

[Dagur]

funny thing is After a few wees no one will be raging anymore because they will have gotten over it and gotten use to the changes. also RoD was switched over to Warrior for mitigation, you got your high Dot dmg, your burst procs, your music. you still got a lot so i wouldn't worry just means you don't need to probably spam RoD anymore so guess what more DPS focus for you.

[Xellos2099]

Yeah the nerf is.. comfusing, if they are we are too powerful in dps, bfb and raging got nerf... fine i can live with it. Rod made zero sense, if they want us to be in support role, we should be getting more ability, not losing them. Now thwe rod is so useless might as well remove it and give us something more useful for pt. I will never rest till I have an answer. As a customer I been through EVERY mean to get an answer.

[Axlle10]

hmmm, ever think maybe this could be 10X better than -10% damage??? maybe it will give rise to evasion tanks being that much better? say i take 10000 damage over 1 minute. origional ROD reduced that to 9000, now with new rain of death, i would take 10000 damage, but instead i dodge 1500 damage or possibly more. In the end it isnt really a nerf per say. just a more based on luck change XD