Ninja Bard nerf?

[Volux]

Seriously...WTF SE/Yoshida, why leave that out of patch notes and explanations....lowering the lowest dps even further... the nerf to blood for blood (dmg) internal release (crit procs) and hawk's eye (dex buff) wasn't enough? Especially losing the internal release crit bonus already lowers the number of bloodletters we get but now all of them drop in potency as well?

[RyuDragnier]

Seriously...WTF SE/Yoshida, why leave that out of patch notes and explanations....lowering the lowest dps even further... the nerf to blood for blood (dmg) internal release (crit procs) and hawk's eye (dex buff) wasn't enough? Especially losing the internal release crit bonus already lowers the number of bloodletters we get but now all of them drop in potency as well?

Why does every MMO recently feel the need to nerf the bow-wielding classes hard? Several other MMOs have been doing this in the past few years (including Guild Wars 2 with the Ranger class), and I have yet to understand how the balance guys think when they do this. I really hope these changes aren't real in this patch, otherwise I'm seriously going to consider changing my main class.

[Jyoeru]

Seriously...WTF SE/Yoshida, why leave that out of patch notes and explanations....lowering the lowest dps even further... the nerf to blood for blood (dmg) internal release (crit procs) and hawk's eye (dex buff) wasn't enough? Especially losing the internal release crit bonus already lowers the number of bloodletters we get but now all of them drop in potency as well?

Maybe I will notice this at higher levels, but how exactly are we the lowest DPS? In just about every group I am in, every PVP group I am in, I am top damage by like 50%. I need a meter to see how I look in dungeons on paper, but I can tell by the mobs I am working on that I am the top contributor. For example, numerous times I will work on a mob the tank and other DPS aren't on, and I burn my mob as fast--if not faster--than they do theirs.

If you're using macros, I think it safe to say that Bards are OP. Besides, we're also a utility class.